Interesting article on "The History of ABWH"

[rickawakeman]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ander...-wakeman-howe/

Never noticed the original catalog # being 90126.

Also now confused...so were the songs Steve's, or Jon's?

[battema]

How much of that was actually a new article? Seems like 90% of it was just lifting bits from other, existing (and IMHO better/more in-depth & extensive) interviews with the players.

[Innerviews]

How much of that was actually a new article? Seems like 90% of it was just lifting bits from other, existing (and IMHO better/more in-depth & extensive) interviews with the players.

This "article" is basically constructed by ripping off quotes from my interviews and my book. It only references Innerviews once, though the Squire, Bruford and Howe quotes are all taken from my work. Further, they took parts of quotes and cut them together to make them look like a new quote.

This pathetic, rubbish, utterly unprofessional piece-of-shit "magazine" seems to delight in ripping off my work shamelessly, left, right and center.

If you're reading -- seriously -- go fuck yourself, assholes.

[battema]

This "article" is basically constructed by ripping off quotes from my interviews and my book. It only references Innerviews once, though the Squire, Bruford and Howe quotes are all taken from my work. Further, they took parts of quotes and cut them together to make them look like a new quote.

This pathetic, rubbish, utterly unprofessional piece-of-shit "magazine" seems to delight in ripping off my work shamelessly, left, right and center.

If you're reading -- seriously -- go fuck yourself, assholes.

Yeah, honestly I started hovering over the links and all I could think was "this looks like Innerviews did all the heavy lifting, and they just yoinked whatever sounded good to make their own article."

Clickbait, I guess...

[calyx]

Yeah... Recycled material mostly.

Most of the main songs were derived from Howe's demos, with Anderson mostly in charge.
The material was credited to the whole group for contractual reasons. Bruford has been clear that the album was entirely written before he got involved.
"Let's Pretend" was re-arranged from Anderson's latest writing sessions with Vangelis.
"The Meeting" was made into a song by Anderson from music by Wakeman.
Some of "Brother Of Mine" was developed from material Howe had written with Geoff Downes.

When you hear Howe's original demos of some of that stuff, the material was really improved for ABWH, whether or not you think the results are excellent, good or just so-so. I think the Anderson/Howe partnership has always been beneficial to the material either of them came up with.