{"id":36298,"date":"2018-05-27T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=36298"},"modified":"2018-05-27T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:01:37","slug":"keyboard-legend-rick-wakeman-launches-official-youtube-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/keyboard-legend-rick-wakeman-launches-official-youtube-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard Legend Rick Wakeman Launches Official YouTube Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36299\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/keyboard-legend-rick-wakeman-launches-official-youtube-channel\/unnamed-67\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-67.jpg?fit=800%2C414&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unnamed (67)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-67.jpg?fit=640%2C331&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-67.jpg?resize=640%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman has launched his official YouTube channel! The channel will feature many rare and unreleased videos, as well as the exclusive premiere of Rick&#8217;s forthcoming film &#8216;Live Portraits&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWould you believe I now have an official YouTube channel. If you fancy subscribing to it you&#8217;re going to see lots of different things. Some things perhaps you&#8217;ve seen before&#8230;certainly a lot you&#8217;ve never seen before. There will be some exclusive stuff &#8211; exclusive purely to this channel. So please subscribe and see some of the silly things I get up to, and the musical stuff as well.\u201d &#8211; Rick Wakeman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAEXfoFdC2o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To celebrate the launch of Rick&#8217;s official YouTube channel in style, subscribers are asked to vote for the top track they want to see from the film &#8216;Live Portraits&#8217; (track listing below). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/rick-wakeman-live-portraits\/updates\/97478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Votes can be cast here on PledgeMusic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tracks are:<br \/>\n1. MORNING HAS BROKEN<br \/>\n2. AND YOU AND I<br \/>\n3. SUMMERTIME<br \/>\n4. SWAN LAKE<br \/>\n5. SPACE ODDITY<br \/>\n6. AFTER THE BALL<br \/>\n7. SWEET GEORGIA BROWN<br \/>\n8. HELP<br \/>\n9. AMAZING GRACE<br \/>\n10. WONDROUS STORIES<br \/>\n11. MERLIN THE MAGICIAN<br \/>\n12. LIFE ON MARS<br \/>\n13. ELEANOR RIGBY<br \/>\n14. CLAIR DE LUNE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the votes have been counted, the ten most voted tracks will be posted exclusively on Rick&#8217;s YouTube Channel for 48 hours. Fans should subscribe to Rick&#8217;s official YouTube Channel to be notified when this event will take place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzGCgVRDIuciDCIojBkGlTg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the hugely successful \u201cPiano Portraits\u201d tour last year, in support of the album of the same name, Rick Wakeman will return in Autumn 2018 with a new show based on the follow up release, entitled \u201cPiano Odyssey.\u201d The fourteen-date tour will feature even more classic tracks given Rick&#8217;s unique piano treatment, and will travel to towns and cities not previously visited in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A live version of Rick&#8217;s critically acclaimed album &#8216;Piano Portraits&#8217; was filmed &amp; recorded at the Lincoln Cathedral in London on March 7th, 2018. &#8216;Live Portraits&#8217; will be released on CD\/DVD soon. It can be ordered exclusively from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/rick-wakeman-live-portraits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pledge Music here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information about Rick Wakeman, visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwcc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gonzo Multimedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman has launched his official YouTube channel! The channel will feature many rare and unreleased videos, as well as the exclusive premiere of Rick&#8217;s forthcoming film &#8216;Live Portraits&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12133,640],"tags":[270,12169,144,2100,3939,14532,1872,71,14531],"class_list":["post-36298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-videos","tag-competition","tag-live-portraits","tag-new-album","tag-pledgemusic","tag-rick-wakeman","tag-voting","tag-website","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-channel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9rs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56523,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/10\/rick-wakeman-box-of-boots-set-of-10-live-cds-official-bootleg-series-now-available-for-pre-order\/","url_meta":{"origin":36298,"position":0},"title":"Rick Wakeman &#8216;Box Of Boots: Set of 10 Live CDs: Official Bootleg Series&#8217; Now Available For Pre-order","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"18\/10\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick Wakeman's 'Box Of Boots: Set of 10 Live CDs: Official Bootleg Series' is now available for pre-order. 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