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With the release of the new record, it’s worth revisiting the 50-year trajectory of Yes that began with Fragile and the other breakthrough album the band released in 1971– The Yes Album — that launched the group worldwide. Those two extraordinary records first defined the quintessential Yes sound.
Nov 5, 2023 · Wakeman described the record as a “tragedy,” and even the eternally upbeat Anderson confessed that “we threw tomatoes at ourselves before the audience could,” For all this, the gentle ballad Onward has escaped the gloom, and Squire cited it as one of his best compositions (his Fish Out Of Water collaborator Andrew Pryce Jackman brought ...
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Nov 26, 2021 · Bruford, Howe and Wakeman all agree that the band’s artwork was a key part of the change in how Yes were perceived. If the mysterious, urban confinement of The Yes Album’s cover belied the pastoral surroundings of its creation, Fragil e took them to a very different space; albeit one that was remarkably in simpatico with its contents.
The record displayed a heavier, harder sound than the material Yes recorded with Anderson and Wakeman in 1979, opening with the lengthy hard rocker "Machine Messiah". The album received substantial radio airplay in the late summer–fall of 1980, and peaked at number 2 in the UK [29] and number 18 in the U.S., though it was the first Yes album ...
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Nov 26, 2023 · 26 November 2023. Marking them out as one of the UK’s leading purveyors of progressive rock, Yes ’ scintillating fusion of delirium-inducing hard rock and classical music was already a tried-and-true recipe for success by early 1971. Having scored big with their UK No.4 release The Yes Album, released that February, the group immediately ...
Jun 25, 2020 · At age 30, Rick Wakeman was already one of rock’s greatest superstars. A classically trained keyboardist, he reached international stardom in the early 1970s with Yes, the influential and ...
Oct 11, 2019 · Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman looks back on his history with Yes and reveals that the offshoot band ARW is going on a final tour in 2020. ... Yes always liked to record in what I call a jigsaw ...
