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The most commercially successful lineup was its original, which consisted of four members of different progressive rock bands who had enjoyed great success in the 1970s: lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton ( King Crimson, Uriah Heep and U.K. ), guitarist Steve Howe ( Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes (Yes and the Buggles) and drummer Carl Palmer...
List of Asia band members. Four line-ups in 2001, 2006, 2009 and 2011. Asia are an English progressive rock supergroup, founded in 1981 by lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton ( King Crimson and U.K. ), guitarist Steve Howe ( Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes (Yes and the Buggles) and drummer Carl Palmer ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer ).
Complete List Of Asia Band Members presents a rundown of all the lineup changes and musicians who were a part of the band Asia.
May 31, 2021 · With the arrival of MTV, the timing of Asia’s eponymously titled debut could not have been more perfect. Released in April 1982, it topped the US Billboard chart for nine weeks. At one point 80,000 copies were being sold each day. None of the band had experienced anything so immediate before. “A lot of new fans came on board,” agrees Palmer.
- Dave Ling
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Greg Lake briefly joined the band for a Japanese tour where Asia’s show from the fabled Budokan was the first inter-continental simulcast. In 2006, the founder members reformed and released several new albums before John Wetton’s untimely passing in 2017.
Musician, songwriter, singer and “top bloke” (as Geoff Downes describes him), John Wetton lived a truly extraordinary life. In this book some seventy-plus people who knew and worked with John, from Family, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Roxy Music, U.K., Asia, the John Wetton solo band and beyond, pay tribute to that fact.
The most commercially successful lineup was its original, which consisted of four members of different progressive rock bands who had enjoyed great success in the 1970s: lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton, guitarist Steve Howe (Yes), keyboardist Geoff Downes and drummer Carl Palmer.
