"This is the best rock music that has ever been played on this island."

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Cuba Goes Crazy for Ex-Yes Star Wakeman

By VANESSA ARRINGTON
Associated Press Writer

April 26, 2005, 7:54 AM EDT

HAVANA -- Cuban rockers and families alike went wild for Rick Wakeman in a seaside concert, rushing to the stage when the former Yes star grabbed a portable keyboard and started jamming in the crowd.

Wakeman and the New English Rock Ensemble, or NERE, played a two-hour set late Sunday for several hundred Cubans in Havana's open-air Anti-imperialist Plaza on the Malecon, the city's famed seawall.

"This is the best rock music that has ever been played on this island," said an enthusiastic Jose Negrin, 40, who came with his wife and 15-year-old son.

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Wakeman wore a sequined red, white and gold cape as he played center-stage, while the NERE's lead singer sported a traditional tropical shirt known as a guayabera.

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