Rick Wakeman at the Philharmonic Hall. Photgraph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 20th 2010.

Just over a year ago Jon Anderson came on stage at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool to the kind of applause that is reserved for visiting dignitaries and Liverpool’s favourite sons and daughters. To see the man on stage after the year he had the year before was nothing short of a miracle and it didn’t matter what he performed that night, even if he had sat down and read the newspaper the fans would have cheered just as hard and for as long.