Rock Royalty & Keyboard Legend, Rick Wakeman Celebrates The Festive Season With ‘Christmas Portraits’ Of this brand-new album, Rick Wakeman commented: “Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year. I love every aspect of it, especially traditional Christmas music and songs which have wonderful simplistic melodies that are perfect for adaptation to produce variations on the piano. That is something I love to do and that is exactly what this album is”.