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    Posted: April 05 2004 at 14:12

This is probably too simple.

What Prog hero played on Cat Stevens' cut "Morning has Broken." "MHB" is an old English folk song. The instrumental parts of the song we know are part of a prog CLASSIC from the same hero.

Name the Hero and the tune the breaks for "Morning has Broken" were taken from?

 
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Points: 1117 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2004 at 17:20
It's Rick Wakeman but I can't name the 'classic' , sorry...
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2004 at 18:26

Half point. Anyone want the other.

 

In concert Rick played his original and then played Morning Has Broken. I was familiar with both, but never put them together.  
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I tried to get the other but I ruefully failed  I just read somewhere that there was something with Wakeman and Stevens...
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2004 at 03:38
Originally posted by diddy diddy wrote:

I tried to get the other but I ruefully failed  I just read somewhere that there was something with Wakeman and Stevens...




Or Yusuf Islam, as he is now known - he converted to Islam many years ago

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Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2004 at 00:40

Danbo:

"Catherine Howard" from "Six Wives of Henry the Eighth."

What other prog star played on a Cat Stevens cut?  And what did that person play?

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Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2004 at 11:35

Danbo:

By the way, since Teaser and the Firecat came out in 1971 and Six Wives came out in 1973, this means Wakeman wrote the "theme" for Stevens and then "appropriated" it for himself later...

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Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

Danbo:

By the way, since Teaser and the Firecat came out in 1971 and Six Wives came out in 1973, this means Wakeman wrote the "theme" for Stevens and then "appropriated" it for himself later...

Peace.

When I saw Wakeman on the solo piano tour, he said he was practicing the piece as a  warm up in the studio and Cat Stevens overheard him. CS then asked RW if he could use it to flesh out "Morning Has Broken" because it was a simple folk song with chords and lyrics. Wakeman said "yeah" and that was that. My source for the trivia question is Rick Wakeman and he could be just stroking his own ego, but.....    
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Danbo:

No, if you heard that, you are probably right, and I stand (or, actually sit) corrected.

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