In his recent Strange Brew Podcast interview, Rick Wakeman spoke about his friendship with David Bowie and how it influenced his music career. Rick explained:
I learnt quite a lot from my dear departed friend David Bowie. Bowie said “If you’ve got an idea, a musical idea, and you’ve got something that you really want to do,” he said, “don’t take any advice. Just do it because then it stands and falls by you and not by other people.” And that was very much The Six Wives. I listened to nobody. Obviously, when the musicians came in, they had a lot of freedom of what they wanted to play, how they wanted to play it, which was great and that gave them something different from normal working with other musicians and other things because they had a bit of a freedom that they’d never had before.
Read the full interview at: thestrangebrew.co.uk/interviews/rick-wakeman
