Rhapsodies (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Rhapsodies
Type = Double album
Artist = Rick Wakeman


Released = May 1979
Recorded = 1978-79
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 67:14
Label = A&M Records, A&M SP-6501
Producer = Tony Visconti
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxem97r7krht link]
Last album = "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performs the Best Known Works of Rick Wakeman" (1978)
This album = "Rhapsodies" (1979)
Next album = "The Burning" (1981)

"Rhapsodies" is a double LP by keyboardist Rick Wakeman, which was released in 1979. It was his last studio release on A&M.

Track listing

Record one, Side one:
# "Pedra de Gavea" – 4:11
# "Front Line" – 3:42
# "Bombay Duck" – 3:14
# "Animal Showdown" (Yes We Have No Bananas) – 2:40 (Wakeman/Silver/Cohn)
# "Big Ben" – 3:48Record one, Side two:
# "Rhapsody in Blue" – 5:26 (George Gershwin; arranged Tony Visconti)
# "Wooly Willy Tango" – 3:24
# "The Pulse" – 5:21
# "Swan Lager" – 2:50 (music taken from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Grieg's pianoforte "Concerto in A Minor"; arranged Rick Wakeman)Record two, Side one:
# "March of the Gladiators" – 4:53
# "Flacons de Neige" – 5:01
# "The Flasher" – 5:32
# "The Palais" – 2:23Record two, Side two:
# "Stand-By" – 3:30
# "Sea Horses" – 3:52
# "Half Holiday" – 3:00
# "Summertime" – 4:27 (George Gershwin; arranged Rick Wakeman)
# "Credits" - 2:39

Personnel

* Rick Wakeman - keyboards, likely vocals on "Pedra de Gavea".
* Bruce Lynch - bass guitars
* Frank Gibson, Jr. - drums and percussion
* Nico Ramsden - electric guitar
* Tony Visconti - acoustic guitar.