Peninsula musician Rick Wakeman's son releases new video 'Coming To Town'

By Derek Davis

10th Apr 2021 | Local News

Oliver Wakeman has reunited with Clive Nolan after 20 years to issue a 3CD Box Set - Tales By Gaslight featuring remastered versions of their 'future prog classics' Jabberwocky and The Hound Of The Baskervilles along with a new disc Dark Fables.

Oliver, formerly of Yes and the Strawbs, is the son of rock legend Rick Wakeman, who moved to the Shotley peninsula last year.

The Tales By Gaslight box set, comprising 3CDs each with a 16-page booklet and 3 individual Art prints of the three covers, is available to pre-order from Burning Shed now at https://burningshed.com/store/oliverw...

Clive Nolan (Pendragon, Arena) and Oliver first combined their considerable keyboard and compositional talents to create two rock opera/concept albums.

Jabberwocky, released in 1999, was based on the famous Lewis Carroll poem. It was followed by The Hound of The Baskervilles (2002), inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novel penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The project was always intended to be a trilogy of musical interpretations of literary classics, but an album inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was shelved because of a lack of record company funding.

This box set package also includes a third disc, featuring previously unreleased pieces that were intended to complete the trilogy. This third disc, Dark Fables, contains over 30 minutes of music conceived for the abandoned Frankenstein album.

Order your copy here...

     

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