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180g Heavyweight Vinyl! Double LP Includes Newly Expanded Booklet and Roger Dean Designed Gatefold Sleeves!
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of his landmark concept album, Rick Wakeman presents the repackaged, re-recorded, extended Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.
Based on the novel by Jules Verne, which will mark its 150th anniversary in 2014, the album is one of the rock era's landmark achievements - a record that sold 15 million copies and rewrote the rules.
''This is the start of a new Journey,'' says Rick Wakeman, ''the original score for the album had been lost for so many years, making any new performances impossible, but after it turned up without warning, we managed to restore it and add previously missing music that was not included in the original performances. It has taken another half decade to develop it into this album and tour, but I can't wait to take Jules Verne's magnificent story on the road again.''
The new extended, re-recorded 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' comes beautifully packaged complete with new, original artwork from legendary artist Roger Dean.
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth is one of progressive rock's crowning achievements." -Mike DeGagne, allmusic.com
Features:
180g heavyweight vinyl
Double LP
Roger Dean designed gatefold sleeves
Gatefold jacket
Brand new covers, inners & labels
Newly expanded booklet
Musicians:
Rick Wakeman, keyboards
Ashley Holt, vocals
Barney James, drums
David Hemmings, narration
David Measham, conductor
English Chamber Choir
Gary Pickford Hopkins, vocals
London Symphony Orchestra
Mike Egan, guitar
Roger Newell, bass
Selections:
1. Preface to a Journey
2. The Journey Overture
3. Journey's Dawn
4. Crystals
5. The Gothic Cathedral
6. A Quest for Water
7. The Hansbach
8. Fervent Prayer
9. The Recollection
10. Lost & Found
11. Echoes
12. 4 Miles
13. The Reunion
14. A New Vista
15. A World Within a World
16. The Raft
17. The Battle
18. Cumulus Clouds
19. The Storm
20. The Cemetery
21. Quaternary Man
22. Mastodons
23. The Forest
24. Ages of Man
25. The Tunnel
26. Hall of the Mountain King
27. Mount Etna
180g Heavyweight Vinyl! Double LP Includes Newly Expanded Booklet and Roger Dean Designed Gatefold Sleeves!
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of his landmark concept album, Rick Wakeman presents the repackaged, re-recorded, extended Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.
Based on the novel by Jules Verne, which will mark its 150th anniversary in 2014, the album is one of the rock era's landmark achievements - a record that sold 15 million copies and rewrote the rules.
''This is the start of a new Journey,'' says Rick Wakeman, ''the original score for the album had been lost for so many years, making any new performances impossible, but after it turned up without warning, we managed to restore it and add previously missing music that was not included in the original performances. It has taken another half decade to develop it into this album and tour, but I can't wait to take Jules Verne's magnificent story on the road again.''
The new extended, re-recorded 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' comes beautifully packaged complete with new, original artwork from legendary artist Roger Dean.
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth is one of progressive rock's crowning achievements." -Mike DeGagne, allmusic.com
Features:
180g heavyweight vinyl
Double LP
Roger Dean designed gatefold sleeves
Gatefold jacket
Brand new covers, inners & labels
Newly expanded booklet
Musicians:
Rick Wakeman, keyboards
Ashley Holt, vocals
Barney James, drums
David Hemmings, narration
David Measham, conductor
English Chamber Choir
Gary Pickford Hopkins, vocals
London Symphony Orchestra
Mike Egan, guitar
Roger Newell, bass
Selections:
1. Preface to a Journey
2. The Journey Overture
3. Journey's Dawn
4. Crystals
5. The Gothic Cathedral
6. A Quest for Water
7. The Hansbach
8. Fervent Prayer
9. The Recollection
10. Lost & Found
11. Echoes
12. 4 Miles
13. The Reunion
14. A New Vista
15. A World Within a World
16. The Raft
17. The Battle
18. Cumulus Clouds
19. The Storm
20. The Cemetery
21. Quaternary Man
22. Mastodons
23. The Forest
24. Ages of Man
25. The Tunnel
26. Hall of the Mountain King
27. Mount Etna