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  Former rugby league player Rob Burrow to receive honour at Windsor Castle

  A host of high-achievers, including actor Sir Jonathan Pryce and keyboardist Rick Wakeman, will receive royal honours at the investiture services.

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  Rick Wakeman ‘stunned and proud’ after being made a CBE

  The progressive rock keyboardist is recognised for services to music and broadcasting.

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  Actor set to play Prince Philip in next series of The Crown becomes ‘Sir’

  The Queen has knighted the actor portraying the late Prince Philip in the next series of The Crown as part of a star-studded Birthday Honours list. Jonathan Pryce, who will replace Tobias Menzies in the role for the final two series of the Netflix drama, is recognised for services to drama and charity after five decades at the top of British theatre, film and television. Sir Jonathan, 74, was told by his tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts that he would never achieve anything more than p

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  Tony Hooper, co-founder of folk-rockers the Strawbs who left the band on brink of stardom – obituary

  Tony Hooper, who has died aged 81, was a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder member of the folk-rock band the Strawbs, but quit when they were on the brink of the big time to pursue a more conventional career in engineering and publishing. As a teenage schoolboy in Twickenham he had formed the band with Dave Cousins after they had bonded over a mutual passion for American folk and blues music. They would buy import records at the specialist shop Dobells, go to gigs by visiting Americans s

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  Bob Harris says 1961 ballad Stand By Me’s message resonates amid pandemic

  The broadcaster has organised a cover of the track for charity.

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  Fraser T Smith on singing for Rick Wakeman, producing Adele and fusing Stormzy with Simon Armitage

  Long before he became the producer-collaborator of choice to the top tier of British grime and hip hop – Stormzy, Kano and Dave – Fraser T Smith was a very different kind of wingman. Some three decades ago, aged 21, the Buckinghamshire native began playing guitar with Rick Wakeman – a period he describes now as funny, daunting and exhausting. “Funny because Rick is one of the funniest people I know. Daunting because I was touring and recording with Rick, and his creative output is on a par with

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  Yes star Jon Anderson: Chris Squire visited me in a dream the night he died

  The pair founded the progressive rock band in 1968.

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  Brian May takes Buzz Aldrin down memory lane in 3D Space Race show

  The Queen star performed some of the band's hits at the annual festival with a number of music stars.

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  Marylebone Music Festival 2018: Sue Perkins and Rick Wakeman to perform

  Marylebone Music Festival is due to take place this weekend, welcoming London’s music lovers to a series of events across the heart of London. The festival, now in its third year, will feature concerts staged in various locations around Marylebone between June 21 and June 24. The event will include concerts directed by Rick Wakeman, Sue Perkins and Anna Richardson, with artists like Alasdair Beatson, Nicholas Daniel and Daniel Rowland all due to perform.

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  Yes review – prog-rock giants take virtuosic tour through golden oldies

  Then there’s this one, kept going (after founding bassist Chris Squire’s death in 2015), by guitarist Howe and drummer Alan White, whose back surgery has left him unable to perform for long. The rival band have branded them a tribute act, although flowing-haired singer Jon Davison (who once was in a Yes tribute act called Roundabout) doesn’t need his tight trousers to help tackle his predecessor’s angelic upper ranges.

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