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‘You can’t have opinions any more’: Rick Wakeman interviewed

Rod Liddle talks to this refugee from the rather wonderful decade of power cuts, glam rock and terrorism, the 1970s

A refugee from the rather wonderful decade of power cuts, glam rock and terrorism: Rick Wakeman. Butler / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images 
issue 19 December 2020

‘Classic rock’ is a rather fusty old oxymoron, but then the term ‘classic’ is applied these days to chocolate bars and that most in-demand of consumer undurable, lavatory paper, so I suppose one shouldn’t complain. Covid-19 will probably be remembered as a ‘classic virus’ one day not too soon, when there are other more baleful new-wave viruses with spiky hair pogoing around.

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