Rhapsodies (album)



Rhapsodies is a double LP by keyboardist Rick Wakeman, which was released in 1979. It was his last studio release on A&M.

Side one

 * 1) "Pedra da Gavea"  – 4:11
 * 2) "Front Line"  – 3:42
 * 3) "Bombay Duck"  – 3:14
 * 4) "Animal Showdown (Yes We Have No Bananas)"  – 2:40 (Wakeman, Frank Silver, Irving Cohn)
 * 5) "Big Ben"  – 3:48

Side two

 * 1) "Rhapsody in Blue"  – 5:26 (George Gershwin; arranged by Tony Visconti)
 * 2) "Wooly Willy Tango"  – 3:24
 * 3) "The Pulse"  – 5:21
 * 4) "Swan Lager"  – 2:50 (music taken from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Grieg's pianoforte "Concerto in A Minor"; arranged and adapted by Rick Wakeman)

Side three

 * 1) "March of the Gladiators"  – 4:53
 * 2) "Flacons de Neige"  – 5:01
 * 3) "The Flasher"  – 5:32
 * 4) "The Palais"  – 2:23

Side four

 * 1) "Stand-By"  – 3:30
 * 2) "Sea Horses"  – 3:52
 * 3) "Half Holiday"  – 3:00
 * 4) "Summertime"  – 4:27 (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward; arranged by Rick Wakeman)
 * 5) "Credits" - 2:39

Personnel

 * Rick Wakeman - keyboards, likely vocals and vocoder on "Pedra da Gavea".
 * Bruce Lynch - bass guitars
 * Frank Gibson, Jr. - drums and percussion
 * Nico Ramsden - electric guitar
 * Tony Visconti - acoustic guitar, engineer
 * Technical
 * David K. Richards - assistant engineer
 * Michael Ross - album design
 * Paul Wakefield - photography