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THE BEST GOES ON

NEW YORK—Is Rick Wakeman boring? Old? Does he reek of excessive flatulence? Actually he's a rather animated and witty talker, sports shoulder-length hair with an almost teen impishness, and had nothing to do with the Sex Pistols being dropped from A&M Records, his label.

November 1, 1978
Rob Patterson

THE BEST GOES ON

Long Distance Runaround

NEW YORK—Is Rick Wakeman boring? Old? Does he reek of excessive flatulence? Actually he's a rather animated and witty talker, sports shoulder-length hair with an almost teen impishness, and had nothing to do with the Sex Pistols being dropped from A&M Records, his label.

"That story is quite amazing," said Wakeman. "See, I live in Switzerland, I don't live in England—and Yes was there and we were doing the Going For The One album. You get all the papers a bit late, y' see. Melody Makers and like that come over about a week late . . . the newspapers about three days late.

"So I read in the paper one day—about five days previous—'A&M SIGN SEX PISTOLS FOR HUGE FIG-

The Kiss Of Mutation

Wherein two genuine current phenomena of the species homo taplmn effect what they assume to be a harmless gesture—only to undergo a catastrophic metamorphosis, wrought from their latent prurience. Even the poor chap in the background is by-standerishly irradiated by the appearancesapping emanations. ..

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URE.' I thought 'Interesting.' I'd never heard any of their stuff, but I found it interesting.

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