Rick Wakeman said: "It's just one of those decisions a manager has to make." Wakeman described the record as "the album Yes should have made instead of "Topographic Oceans"." Released in July 1977, the album spent two weeks at No. 1 in the UK and spawned the No. 7 single, "Wonderous Stories". Wakeman considered its fifteen-minute track "Awaken" as one of the band's best. During the "Going for the One" tour, Wakeman released "Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record", a solo album loosely based on criminality with Squire on bass, Alan White on drums, Frank Ricotti on percussion, and Bill Oddie on lead vocals
Ajalon (band) 2004 that the group released their next album "On the Threshold of Eternity" on the label ProgRock Records, where they collaborated with Rick Wakeman, guitarist Phil Keaggy and Neal Morse. Randy George has participated in several Neal Morse projects, one of them being his album "Testimony", which was released earlier in 2004. "On the Threshold of Eternity" received positive reviews in the prog rock scene. In 2009, Ajalon released their third album "This Good Place". Again, a few guest musicians were brought in. Ajalon (band) Ajalon is a Christian progressive rock trio from Seattle. Their name is taken from the