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Bill Bruford

“With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league

By Sid Smith published

Bill Bruford retired in 2009 and later sold most of his equipment to Tool’s Danny Carey. Then he found he wasn’t finished on stage – and he’s come back re-energised

Jon Anderson

“Musicians can get upset with each other, but you’re family. Chris Squire and I were like brothers – he was Darth Vader and I was Obi-Wan Kenobi!” Jon Anderson’s time-travelling solo album 1000 Hands

By Johnny Sharp published

In 2019 he reincarnated 30-year-old demos with former Yes bandmates and a stellar supporting cast, offering positive and long-held opinions to a rapidly-changing world

Yes sharing a sofa in August 1969

A rare studio recording of Yes playing a wild version of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby has surfaced online

By Fraser Lewry published

The recording was made two months before Yes signed their deal with Atlantic Records

Rick Astley and Rick Wakeman

“Rick Wakeman’s solo albums were just brilliant… when I heard he was doing Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace, I bought 12 tickets”: Prog is the reason Rick Astley became a singer

By Dave Everley published

Pop star made his life-changing decision at a Camel concert, before discovering the work of keyboard genius Wakeman via Yes

Brian Gulland and the 1974 line-up of Yes

“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland

By Sid Smith published

He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974

Kenny Aronoff Yes

Watch drummer Kenny Aronoff hear and drum along to Yes's Changes for the very first time

By Jerry Ewing published

John Mellencamp drummer Kenny Aronoff shows his prog chops drumming to Changes by Yes for the first time

Oliver Wakeman with Yes

“It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip

By Nick Shilton published

If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks

The Yes Album

“People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times

By Martin Kielty published

The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today

Yes members backstage at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction ceremony

"I could have said a few words if Rick Wakeman would have shut up": Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's tumultuous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

By Fraser Lewry published

Bill Bruford looks back on a famously fractious evening

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe – And Evening of Yes Music Plus

“Their own songs, freed from the dated sonics of their recorded counterparts, benefit most from the live treatment”: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s An Evening Of Yes Music Plus returns in 4-disc set

By Paul Ging published

Sound and vision elements of 1989 pay-per-ew show brought together in clamshell

Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks release stunning live version of Yes classic Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People

By Fraser Lewry published

Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People comes from the upcoming live album Live - Perpetual Change

Jon Anderson and Jon Davison

“He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson

By Martin Kielty published

The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

Yes pose for a group photo around a table in 1972

Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way

By Jerry Ewing published

New version of Close To The Edge features Steven Wilson mixes and entire London Rainbow show from December 1972

Prog 156

We celebrate 50 years of Yes's Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

By Jerry Ewing published

Plus Marillion, Clannad, Pavlov's Dog, Klone, Swallow The Sun, Dilemma and more

Yes posing for a photograph in 1972

“We were pot-smoking hippies and Rick Wakeman was a pub guy. The angle twisted and we went off in a new direction”: The epic story of Yes and the three albums that changed the course of music

By Jon Hotten published

Jon Anderson with the Band Geek in the studio

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce live album of classic-era Yes songs

By Fraser Lewry published

Live - Perpetual Change will be released in March

“Vangelis was always going to play off the cuff – which would have been wonderful, but we’re not a jazz group!” How Yes struggled to move on without Rick Wakeman then scored a victory with Relayer, in their own words

By Sid Smith published

The band suffered a few false starts before delivering a triumph with a daring album that explored a new kind of energy

Chris Squire

“He soars, swoops and divebombs his bandmates… two of whom quit shortly after”: 10 of Chris Squire’s mightiest musical moments

By Mark Blake published

The Yes powerhouse bassist had a unique talent for knowing where to be among a relentless band of virtuosos

Steve Howe

"We weren’t fiddling around and wondering what to do, we were going to nail this sucker": Steve Howe names the best record he's ever made

By Dave Ling published

Yes guitarist Steve Howe picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

Jon Anderson headshot

"I've got my new band together now. I've got the Yes that I wanted": After half a century of Yes music, Jon Anderson talks about everything, from football to fairies

By Dave Everley published

Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story