This album, "Going for The One", was released 40 years ago this week and still one of my top-ten all-time favorite albums, period. The idea that Wakeman performed on a church organ and transmitted the sound over a telephone line to a recording studio five miles away where the rest of the band was playing their instruments in synch is astounding to me. There is a video of Jon Anderson performing "Awaken" just a few years ago, and his voice does not seem to have changed a bit in the 35 years since he first sang it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Va3e_52TE&sns=em
This album, "Going for The One", was released 40 years ago this week and still one of my top-ten all-time favorite albums, period. The idea that Wakeman performed on a church organ and transmitted the sound over a telephone line to a recording studio five miles away where the rest of the band was playing their instruments in synch is astounding to me. There is a video of Jon Anderson performing "Awaken" just a few years ago, and his voice does not seem to have changed a bit in the 35 years since he first sang it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Va3e_52TE&sns=em