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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
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