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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

Jon Anderson with the Band Geek in the studio

“We have to be true to ourselves and to the idea of Yes… we’re all aiming for the heart of the same sunrise”: Jon Anderson’s gratitude at returning from the edge of death to make latest solo album True

By Stephen Lambe published

80-year-old ex Yes singer recalls effectively passing in his wife’s arms – before a series of incidents returned him to health, creativity and a new appreciation of his past and future

Steve Howe - Guitarscape

“Curiously retro, reminiscent of Vangelis… these tunes are mostly short and to the point”: Steve Howe’s Guitarscape

By Sid Smith published

Inspired by a new synth, the Yes veteran has created something of a taster showreel in his latest outing with son Dylan

The Beatles in 1967

“This was more than just music… It’s part of your DNA if you were that age at the time. It defines the times”: Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd alumni on what The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper did for prog

By Dave Everley published

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night

Rick Wakeman: Yessonata cover art

"A joyous piece of vinyl": Rick Wakeman looks back over his career with the glittering, limited edition Yessonata

By Philip Wilding published

This Rick Wakeman medley reworks and reimagines some of his greatest moments

Steve Howe - Guitarscape cover art

"Although synth lines were the starting point, this remains a guitarist's album at heart": Steve Howe ranges far and wide on Guitarscape

By Neil Jeffries published

Instrumental solo album from Yes/Asia guitarist Steve Howe

Adrian Lukis

“I took off my apron. My manager said, ‘You’ve got tables to serve,’ and I said, ‘I’m talking to Peter Gabriel!’” How actor Adrian Lukis was talked out of signing a music contract by his Genesis hero

By Jo Kendall published

After connecting with fellow public schoolboys, he went on to admire Pink Floyd’s intellectualism, appreciate Curved Air’s sexiness, and get lost in Jean-Luc Ponty while on acid

Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks – True

“No pale rehash of former glories, but a genuine triumph in a state-of-the-art setting”: Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks’ True

By Paul Ging published

Team player returns to prog with collaborators he discovered covering Yes songs