![]() ![]() It reached number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and number 30 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The Six Wives of Henry VIII received mostly positive reviews from critics. Musicians from Yes and from Strawbs, the group Wakeman was in prior to Yes, also play on the album. As he read a book about the subject on his travels, melodies he had written the previous year came to him and were noted down. After signing with A&M as a solo artist, Wakeman decided on the album's concept during a tour of the United States as a member of the rock band Yes. It is an instrumental progressive rock album with its concept based on his interpretations of the musical characteristics of the six wives of Henry VIII. The Six Wives of Henry VIII is the first studio album by the English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in January 1973 on A&M Records. ![]()
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