| Rhapsodies | |
| Type: | Double album |
| Artist: | Rick Wakeman |
| Cover: | Rhapsodies Rick Wakeman.jpg |
| Released: | May 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1978–1979 |
| Studio: | La Grange using the A&M Mobile and Mountain, Montreux, Switzerland |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 70:17 |
| Label: | A&M (SP-6501) |
| Producer: | Tony Visconti |
| Prev Title: | Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | The Burning |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
Rhapsodies is a studio double album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in May 1979 on A&M Records. It was his last studio release on A&M and reached no. 25 in the UK. Described by Wakeman as "probably the most confusing I have ever made" due to the range of styles, it contains generally shorter tracks than his previous work to date, the longest being 5:32. All of his previous non-soundtrack albums had contained at least two tracks over seven minutes long.
The Globe and Mail wrote that Wakeman's "major problem is his insistence on inundating the marketplace with far more instrumentally adept but generally unexciting mishmash than it can possibly absorb."[1]
All tracks by Rick Wakeman, except where noted.
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