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Rick Wakeman is a Ambient and Classical act. Their catalogue also touches K-pop and Progressive rock. Their sound grew out of Billy Sherwood, Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings, Steve Harley, Lou Reed and Jon Lord. Those roots explain a lot about how Rick Wakeman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Focus and Camel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Iwan Fals, Bohemian Rhapsody, Chaka Khan, Dave Greenfield and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Rick Wakeman, reaching back through Billy Sherwood and forward to Iwan Fals. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Rick Wakeman connections
Rick Wakeman grew out of Billy Sherwood, Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings, Steve Harley and Lou Reed, shares an orbit with Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull and Focus, went on to shape Iwan Fals, Bohemian Rhapsody, Chaka Khan and Dave Greenfield. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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