“We didn’t want to be extras, we didn’t want to be bit men… If you haven’t got an ego, you shouldn’t be doing this”: Rick Wakeman on the Keith Emerson collaboration that never happened

Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman.

To mark the release of the late Keith Emerson’s Variations box set, Rick Wakeman fondly looks back on his memories with the pioneering musician, sharing details of the concert they planned to play together and the chance of a collaborative album.

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