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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius, and Doug Curran
Oliver returned to the YMP this week to help us celebrate 15 years of the show, by way of letting us pick his brain about the fabulous From A Page Expanded and Remastered album. We delve deeply into how the songs were (in some cases) salvaged and reconstructed as well as finding out about what his experiences were of writing with Squire, Howe, David and White. There's a lot more to those stories than we had imagined. The second leg of The Oliver Wakeman Band's From A Page Tour is about to begin so it was a great time to speak to Oliver. Mark and I hugely enjoyed speaking to the former Yes keyboardist and we both managed to insert a couple of questions about other aspects of his time with the band as well. What was it like writing music with the rest of the band?
When was Trevor Horn part of the process and what was he like to work with?
Is there anything else in the vault that could be resurrected in future?
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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week I report back on my trip to see Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. As you'll hear, I had a wonderful time and met some old and new friends. I also find time to torture Mark by making im answer the quiz questions from last week. See if you can do better than him. After he has a go, I reveal the winner of the competition to win a CD copy of the expanded From A Page album. How is Jon's voice?