Rick Wakeman: Next Stop – The Gods
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
RICK WAKEMAN on ice! It takes a cool nerve to launch a rock extravaganza in an area normally the preserve of pantomimes and hockey, but at the risk of frozen fingers, chillblains and gangrene setting in, Rick plans to take the whole of his new presentation King Arthur, to the skating rink.
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