We had a thread a while ago for nominations for best guitar solos / breaks, but I don't think we've had one for piano or other keyboard instrument.
Mine is "Something In The Air" by Thunderclap Newman (still gives me goosebumps after all these years)
Can I also mention the piano intro (by JM herself) to "Rainy Night House" by Joni Mitchell, and Keith Emerson's performance in "Karelia Suite" by The Nice, even though Sibelius would be turning in his grave!
What are your favourites?
Mike.
One of my favourites is "Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum
Oh, easiest question ever!
Rick Wakeman - Merlin the Magician.
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'The Way it is': Bruce Hornsby and the Range.
Superb.
More serious stuff:
'The Heart asks Pleasure First ': Nyman (Theme from 'The Piano)
'Theme from 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
'Shostakovich-Piano Concerto No 2: 2nd Movement (heavenly)
Beethoven:' The Emperor'
Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No 2 (anyone seen ' Brief Encounter')
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell To Stromness
The piano is the most versatiole and beautiful of instruments:if only I could play it....
and, from my youth, the crappest ever:
Mouldy Old Dough-Lieutenant Pigeon
this one might shock ya
but ms dynamite...dy na mi tee..
i always liked the song...but when she done it with jools holland on the piano..it sounded amazing
check put the live version of Peter Gabriels "In your eyes"
Mike Garson on David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane" album - cat walking across the keys on the title track - lush and expansive on "Lady Grinning Soul" - madcap on "Lets spend the night together" - deliciously decadent a la "Cabaret" on the intro to "Time".
Don't know if this counts, but David Bowie did a Stylophone solo on Space Oddity (Ground control to Major Tom).
I mention it not because it was particularly great, but because it was, as far as I know, unique. I can't think of any other example of a stylophone being used on a major hit record.
Pulp's Jarvis Cocker did use a stylophone on something I think not on a hit single but some album track.
They needed someone to play the mellotron(Fantastically complicted keyboard that triggered individual tape loop per key of violins etc - sampling decades before the term was actually used) on "Space Oddity".Nobody could - someone in the studio said there was a lad who played piano in the pub around the corner who could do it.
So,between belting out "Down at the Bull and Bush",this chap popped in and did the spooky atmospheric sounds on the track we now love so well.
His name?Rick Wakeman!
Serious synth solo he did with Yes on the title track of "Close to the Edge" too!And as for the live versions of "Starship Trouper"(he wasn't on the studio version ) - wowee!
My vote goes to the
Piano solo
performed by Eric Morecambe
Arranged by 'Little Ern'
conducted by Andrew Preview
AP - You're playing all the wrong notes!
EM - No!......... I'm playing all the right notes..... but not, necessarily in the right order!
I agree with pretty much all of the above!
I've just been listening to the full-length instrumental play-out at the end of Layla - and that guitar/piano duet is great. I'd forgotten how much I liked it!
I'm sure I'll think of some others too...
