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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Grumpy Old Rock Star by Rick Wakeman Rick Wakeman adds extra shows to his Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour. Last month, Rick Wakeman announced that he’d head out on tour across North America on The Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour . The keyboard maestro initially revealed a run of 14 shows which will combine “spellbinding piano music with side-splitting jokes and revealing insights into his 50-plus-year career.” Now Wakeman has added a further eight performances which will take place from mid-October. A statement on the tour adds: “Expect an evening of superb musicianship, featuring music from Yes, Rick’s own solo epics and early Bowie hits, plus fantastic arrangements of Beatles’ tunes, and much, much more, interspersed with knockabout – and sometimes bawdy – typically British humour.” Find a full list of Wakeman’s North American tour dates below, with the new shows highlighted in bold. Before his trip across the Atlantic, Wakeman will play two night’s at London’s Royal Festival Hall on July 13 and 14, where he’ll revisit his epic live album Journey To The Centre Of The Earth . Rick Wakeman Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour Sep 21: Annapolis Maryland Hall For The Creative Arts, MD Sep 22: Derry Tupelo Music Hall, NH Sep 23: Boston The Wilbur, MA Sep 24: Huntington The Paramount, NY Sep 25: Alexandria The Birchmere, VA Sep 27: Quebec City Palais Montcalm, QC Sep 28: Montreal Olympia Theatre, QC Sep 29: Toronto Danforth Music Hall, ON Oct 02: Harrisburg Whitaker Center, PA Oct 04: St. Charles Arcada Theatre, IL Oct 08: Allentown Miller Symphony Hall, PA Oct 10: Englewood Bergen Performing Arts Center, NJ Oct 11: Collingswood Scottish Rite Auditorium, NJ Oct 13: Ridgefield Playhouse, CT Oct 16: Seattle The Triple Door, WA Oct 17: Portland Revolution Hall, OR Oct 19: San Francisco Castro Theatre, CA Oct 20: San Juan Capistrano Coach House, CA Oct 22: Los Angeles Theatre at Ace Hotel, CA Oct 25: Atlanta City Winery, GA Oct 26: Clearwater Capitol Theatre, FL Oct 27: Orlando The Plaza Live, FL. GRUMPY OLD ROCK STAR. Grumpy Old Rock Star and other Wondrous Stories. Grumpy Old Rockstar is a collection of never-before-told stories from Rick Wakeman's amazing life, from ordering a curry on-stage to how he ended up with the earth from around Che Guevara's body in his shed. BOOK 2. Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star. What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer team and a Swiss mail-order pornography company? BOOK 3 (COMING SOON) Even Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star. Rick Wakeman. Rick is one of the most gifted keyboard players of his generation, as at home on stage at a rock concert as in the organ loft of a great cathedral. He as known now for his TV appearances on Grumpy Old Men and Countdown and his hugely popular Saturday morning radio show on Planet Rock - 500,000 tune in the UK alone, and some say 10 million people listen world-wide. He presents television shows and writes hymns. Rick Wakeman. Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour Produced by Larry Magid. Doors at 7pm. Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman embarks on his first solo tour of America in 13 years. Wakeman’s The Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour will combine spellbinding piano music with sidesplitting jokes and revealing insights into his 50-plus-year career. Expect an evening of superb musicianship, featuring music from YES, Rick’s own solo epics and early Bowie hits, plus fantastic arrangements of Beatles’ tunes, and much, much more, interspersed with knockabout (and sometimes bawdy!) typically British humor. Professional musician, keyboard player, songwriter, broadcaster and raconteur, Wakeman’s career started as a much-in-demand session player, who performed on recordings by David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed, Al Stewart and hundreds more artists. His big break came in 1971 when he joined YES, who went on to become the most successful prog rock band in the world, but Wakeman has also always gone his own way outside the framework of that group. In the Seventies, he achieved chart-topping success with solo albums such as Journey To The Centre Of The Earth , The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , which cumulatively sold over 10,000,000 copies in North America alone. He has written several film scores, amongst them two for director Ken Russell ( Lisztomania and Crimes of Passion ) and two ‘Harry Palmer’ movies starring Michael Caine ( Bullet To Beijing and Midnight in St Petersburg ), and in the UK, has built up an impressive reputation as a witty guest and host on shows like Grumpy Old Men , Countdown , Watchdog and the comedy cabaret show Live at Jongleurs . His wickedly irreverent acceptance speech when YES was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 nearly brought the house down! That same year, he made British chart history when his Piano Portraits record became the first solo piano instrumental album to enter the UK’s Top 10 on release – a feat he then repeated with last year’s Piano Odyssey . Both records feature tunes that have a special connection with Rick’s personal musical journey and his subsequent tours, in which he performs a selection of tracks accompanied by hilarious memories and anecdotes have been instant sell-outs in the UK. Book a table at Best Girl. Book a bed at Ace Hotel. Live a little. Details. 8PM–Tuesday, October 22 Doors at 7pm $50-$75. Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour Produced by Larry Magid. Doors at 7pm. Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman embarks on his first solo tour of America in 13 years. Wakeman’s The Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour will combine spellbinding piano music with sidesplitting jokes and revealing insights into his 50-plus-year career. Expect an evening of superb musicianship, featuring music from YES, Rick’s own solo epics and early Bowie hits, plus fantastic arrangements of Beatles’ tunes, and much, much more, interspersed with knockabout (and sometimes bawdy!) typically British humor. Professional musician, keyboard player, songwriter, broadcaster and raconteur, Wakeman’s career started as a much-in-demand session player, who performed on recordings by David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed, Al Stewart and hundreds more artists. His big break came in 1971 when he joined YES, who went on to become the most successful prog rock band in the world, but Wakeman has also always gone his own way outside the framework of that group. In the Seventies, he achieved chart-topping success with solo albums such as Journey To The Centre Of The Earth , The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , which cumulatively sold over 10,000,000 copies in North America alone. He has written several film scores, amongst them two for director Ken Russell ( Lisztomania and Crimes of Passion ) and two ‘Harry Palmer’ movies starring Michael Caine ( Bullet To Beijing and Midnight in St Petersburg ), and in the UK, has built up an impressive reputation as a witty guest and host on shows like Grumpy Old Men , Countdown , Watchdog and the comedy cabaret show Live at Jongleurs . His wickedly irreverent acceptance speech when YES was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 nearly brought the house down! That same year, he made British chart history when his Piano Portraits record became the first solo piano instrumental album to enter the UK’s Top 10 on release – a feat he then repeated with last year’s Piano Odyssey . Both records feature tunes that have a special connection with Rick’s personal musical journey and his subsequent tours, in which he performs a selection of tracks accompanied by hilarious memories and anecdotes have been instant sell-outs in the UK. Book a table at Best Girl. Book a bed at Ace Hotel. Live a little. Rick Wakeman: The Not So Grumpy Rock Star. All-time great keyboardist (Yes, solo) Performs Thursday Oct. 10 at BergenPac in Englewood. Rick Wakeman is bringing his Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour to the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on Thursday, Oct. 10, but don't let the name fool you. Wakeman, the premier prog-rock keyboardist and so much more, is by no means cantankerous. To the contrary, he's wonderfully funny, amiable and insightful. (Wakeman has appeared in the British comedy TV series "Grumpy Old Men" and wrote two books with the title "Grumpy Old Man," hence the moniker). Wakeman is touring the U.S. for the first time as a solo artist in 13 years and the Englishman will have plenty of humorous tales imbued with bawdy British humor to tell in-between songs spanning his 50-year career. The man is best known as the keyboardist for all-time great prog-rockers Yes and a prolific solo artist whose epic masterpieces include "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table." He's recently toured with fellow former Yes members Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin in ARW. Wakeman is also a prolific session musician who has appeared on recordings by David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed, Al Stewart and hundreds more artists.