David Bowie? Or Yes? Young keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman was just 21 years old in the summer of 1971 when he received simultaneous invitations — literally on the same July day — to join two very promising but very different bands in his native England. One was the fast-rising Yes. It would soon become one of the world’s most acclaimed and successful progressive-rock acts, thanks to the classic albums “Fragile” and “Close to the Edge,” and such widely embraced songs as “Roundabout” and “And You and I.” The other was the Bowie-led Spiders from Mars, which would soon achieve international stardom …
