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Within the same year of re-joining Yes for 1977's Going for the One, Rick Wakeman released yet another solo instrumental concept album. Criminal Record, Wakeman's sixth album in five years, involves six tracks that instill Wakeman's keyboard wizardry to both fictional and historical accounts of punishment, villainy, and crime. With help from both Chris Squire and drummer Alan White, Wakeman managed to land the album within the U.K. Top 30 before the year's end, even though it fell well beyond the Top 100 on the U.S. album charts. Wakeman does a great job at sketching each theme with an appropriate dose of keyboard fire, with "Judas Iscariot" and "Crime of Passion" arising as two of the album's most potent tracks. Wakeman's employment of a Swiss Choir for "Judas" presents it with a wonderful pastoral feel, emphasizing the character's struggle between good and evil while toning different portions of the tracks with light and dark, as well as heavy and soft keyboard segments. Because there are only six cuts on the album, the concept in which Wakeman tackles never strays too far, and even in some of the less grandiose tracks like "Birdman of Alcatraz" or "Chamber of Horrors," there's a lingering sense of Wakeman's ideas hiding somewhere within his rock-infused keyboard styles. Although it may not be as musically dynamic or as instrumentally moving as his earlier concept pieces like Myths and Legends of King Arthur or Six Wives, he still manages to be both effective and entertaining throughout the length of the album, and, more importantly, his thematic intention is strongly held together without any vocal involvement. ~ Mike DeGagneRecord Collector (magazine) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "There are oodles of cascading keyboards, of course, with Wakeman painting vivid musical portraits of dodgy places, events and characters." Rick Wakeman Criminal Record Songs | 1. | Statue Of Justice | $0.99 | |
| 2. | Crime Of Passion | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Chamber Of Horrors | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Birdman Of Alcatraz | |
| 5. | The Breathalyser | |
| 6. | Judias Iscariot | |
| Criminal Record Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   Criminal Record Definitely one of Rick's better albums! The first three tracks are absolutely prog-rockers. The fourth is classic Wakeman piano abilities being displayed. To me, the fifth/sixth tracks are weaker, however if you like Wakeman, you must own this CD!! Submitted by michelp (Grants Pass, OR)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
in the top 5 of Rick's cd's one of the best rick has ever done. sharp synth leads, haunting pipes, and a great choir sound to boot. a little short, but what is on it is just prog at its best, way back when Submitted by teuscheld (jcksonville, fl. usa)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
one of the best prog at its finest. the pipes sound great. although its not Ricks favorite because he wanted more continuity in the cd, there is some excellent playing. In the top 5 of Wakemans recordings. Submitted by teuscheld (Jacksonville, Fl)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 0 of 1 found this helpful.
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$9.35 One of the Canterbury scene's most revered bands, Hatfield and the North made up for the brevity of their career with some fascinating music. Always adventurous, the quartet had the keen sense to realize that only the most hardened jazz fans respond to numerous key changes and exceedingly complex time signatures, and ...
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$8.69 Recorded in 1974. Originally released on Atlantic (18122). Includes liner notes by Doug Gottlieb, Glenn Gottlieb.
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