I think that laughter goes along with music,
as well, because I say with this show that I
do that, I take the music very seriously, but
the laughter is like an antidote to the seri-
ousness. And I enjoy that because you just
can’t be unhappy if you’re laughing.
Rick
IE: When did you first discover you had
this twisted sense of humor?
RICK WAKEMAN: When I was a kid at
school, really. Invariably, I’d never get my IE: What’s the tightest situation your wit
ever squeaked you out of?
RW: Well, it would have had to do with
school. There was one incident in particular,
where we had half-term holidays, which are
holidays that come up in the middle of the
term, and they normally run for three days.
But — for whatever reason — I decided that
three days wasn’t long enough, and I took
three weeks. So I turned up back at school,
homework done because I lived quite a long
way from school. And by the time I got
home and did my piano practice, it was too
late to do any homework. So I’d go back to
school, and I found one way of avoiding
being caned — they used to give me the
cane st school — I found out that if I could
make the teachers laugh, you avoided being
caned. You just got told off. And I found
that laughter covered a multitude of things
for you, and you could get away with
absolute murder, almost. And also, I love
laughing. Life makes me laugh, and every-
thing that happens in life can be funny. And to the wrath of the teachers and the head-
master, who said, “Where have you been for
three weeks?” And I replied that I was on
my three-week half term, but they said,
“You’ve been at this school for seven years,
so there’s been 21 half terms, and they’ve all
been three days. When did it suddenly
become three weeks?” So I said I was told it
was, they asked by who, and I mentioned a
teacher from another student. “And he said
they have three weeks, so I presumed that I
would get three weeks, too.” And they just
started laughing, going, “Where did you
come up with this shit? Just go away. Go
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