----------------------------------------------------- SEPTEMBER 2003 ----------------------------------------------------- Source: Blender Magazine http://www.blender.com/articles/article_466.html The 50 Worst Artists in Music History Extended drum solos. Prog-rock concept albums. Kenny G. We endured all these — and much worse! — to bring you Blender’s list of the 50 most talentless music acts of all time. Just please don’t ask us to do it again. Ever… ..................... #42 -- RICK WAKEMAN Can play two synthesizers at once — but nothing that people want to hear. Keyboard “wizard” and professional cape wearer, Wakeman’s diabolical taste revealed itself early, when he elected to join prog-rockers Yes instead of David Bowie’s backing band, the Spiders From Mars. Not content with contributing to Yes’s inexcusably pompous albums, he also spent the mid-’70s releasing a series of baroquely awful solo theme records, including The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. For reasons that are still unclear, he opted to perform that one on ice. Appalling fact: While playing Yes songs live, Wakeman would wolf down curry during sections in which he had little to do. Worst CD: Lisztomania (A&M, 1975) Close Window YesInThePress.com For site comments, problems, corrections, or additions, contact YesinthePress@aol.com