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New York, February 5, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists will launch Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front lines, a yearly assessment of the state of press freedom worldwide, at a press conference on February 12 at the United Nations.
CPJ will present analysis of the transnational threat to press freedom posed by mass surveillance and censorship. Other topics will include impunity in journalist killings and the role of a strong, independent media in global development.
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2012-07-22, 23:21 | Link #21 |
User of the "Fast Draw"
Must be nice for Kio to have a supportive father. Finds his way so tells him just to go with it . Who knew the guy missing for a decade would turn out to be a solid dad when he's actually around?
No surprise that Asemu couldn't break through Zeheart's belief system. Even his friend saying "you're being used" isn't going to be enough to make it. Going to have to find a way to talk him down so the next time they meet isn't going to be Asemu visiting Zeheart's grave. They were pretty close thanks to Asemu not really using any tricks and Zeheart overclocking his machine. But really glad to see these two actually meeting up again. Hopefully they both walk out of this alive. Though will be tough to convince Zeheart about the crazy plan Ezelcant is actually running. I'm amazed Fram survived. The whole time I was thinking "oh god she's dead, oh god she's doomed." Don't be an Obright and tempt the death flag people . Maybe she'll actually get a decent result since this is the final arc and not having people die might be something new. Yeah, all we need is for Asemu to start saying "my machine can't keep up with me!" About the only guy that hasn't started complaining about that.
2012-07-23, 00:17 | Link #22 |
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 31
Yeesh this is ridiculous.
Asemu at the very least is trying to talk to the Vagans and the truth about Ezcelant's true goal which really isn't about saving Vaga. Kio on the other hand thinks that disabling suits and saying "let's stop fighting" will encourage the other side to step down in the face of enemy fire.At the very least he should be making a case and telling the Vagans that they're being taken for fools. I would've thought military vehicles would carry some sort of recorder onboard since Ezcelant communicated with Kio in the AGE 3. |
2012-07-23, 00:34 | Link #24 | |
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2012-07-23, 00:34 | Link #25 |
Puppet Master
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Behind You
A recording of Ezelcant would be pretty damaging because he admits to destroying Vagan colonies and dragging the war out, needlessly sacrificing lives. Assuming the legitimacy of the file can be confirmed, it'd be enough to turn most of the grunts against him, but idk if a diehard like Zeheart would be swayed by that.
2012-07-23, 00:51 | Link #27 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
It's strange how I'm liking both Flit and Asem's characters more after their respective arcs. On the other hand, I wasn't impressed with how they transitioned from the scene with the Luna Base weapons attacking to the scene with Kio's team landing on the moon, nice and quite. Nah, if Kio had a Kira mode, he would've disabled the Fawnfarsia first and foremost once he had the advantage.
2012-07-23, 00:58 | Link #28 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
AGE-3 couldn't keep up(with Kio) when under attack by all the bits. |
2012-07-23, 01:00 | Link #29 | |
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 31
Even without the recording he can still make the argument. I'm sure people like Zanald would jump on information like that. |
2012-07-23, 01:06 | Link #30 |
A random passerby
Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 25
Well, that was certainly surprising, with how many death flags Fram was getting I was surprised that wasn't her own death she saw. Hopefully next week the
Spoiler for Speculation about episode 42:
Also, seems that Deen kid has vanished. I hope he stays gone frankly, we've got enough characters and plots to resolve as it is. |
2012-07-23, 04:59 | Link #32 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Unknown
Age: 32
By that logic, it's Zeheart that's going to die.
I'm aware that there are quite a few death flags up for Fram. I'm just wondering exactly how many? Count them with me. 1) Has come to accept and even admire our villainous lead. 2) Has seen a vision of said villainous lead's death. Uhhh there's probably a couple others. Help me out here. |
2012-07-23, 05:36 | Link #33 |
You are Dominated!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Earth
Age: 28
Nice battle episode. Fram is a beauty and her way of fighting is elegant. Nice to see that Kio is having difficulties and no t just curbstomping his opponents. I do agree with Fram that the way Kio did it (shouting NO WAR PLZ) is going to make everyone angrier.
I lol at Asemu and Zeheart literally throwing away everything and screamed at each other. Ahh the good old days. It is weird to see a 40 years old protagonist vs a 20 years old antagonist. Usually it's the other way around
2012-07-23, 07:48 | Link #34 |
Join Date: May 2012
I have a feeling Girard won't die. Like what I read on some spoilers, she has knowledge on both sides, so probably she will be one of the key characters in resolving the the EFF-Vagan conflict.
Also, It is the nth time Seric notices how Kio fights by not killing his enemies. That should mean something.
2012-07-23, 07:59 | Link #35 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Well not instantly just a slow death without guarantee of rescue. With limited a oxygen supply they'll suffocate.
Unlike grandpa and dad who are colonists Kio wasn't trained when it comes to EVA. I find his education lacking, too much video games. |
2012-07-23, 08:08 | Link #36 | |
Join Date: Sep 2009
Age: 22
Anyway, Kio finally said it - "we all need to understand each other!" |
2012-07-23, 12:07 | Link #38 |
The Dark Empress
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: West Virginia, USA
Age: 26
Flit: "Your interrupting an important mission leave the area"
Suppa Pirrato Dat Assemu: "I'm a pirate. I do as I please" Me: Hell yeah thats what I'm talking about! Fram pretty much said "Fuck you" to Kio's speech. xD I wasn't the only one expecting her to die this episode, but its predictable that she will die protecting Zeheart in the next coming episodes. Zeheart vs. Dat Assemu after what 20 years? Will be interesting to see these two battle each other more. I doubt they would have a flashback on an side character without a good reason she is probably tied into one of the Diva crew members. My guess is with Seric. (that is his name right?) xD
2012-07-23, 13:25 | Link #39 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Even Flit for his own faults in raising Asemu began with the idea that he didn't want Asemu to go through the same grief of not being able to protect Asemu's own loved ones like Flit himself did. The Asuno's are all pretty caring dads even though their methods might have taken the wrong turn somewhere down the line. It's actually good to see the whole three generation thing coming together, this is completely new territory to the Gundam franchise for once.
2012-07-23, 13:46 | Link #40 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
This episode hurts me head specially when AGE FX do a ridiculous move that makes the funnel form a barrier like thing that spreads outwards then after that... the first thing he said is THAT!!! I can't take anymore of his wimpy voice and words.
I can bare with ASEMU!!! ZEAHART!!! shouting each other but for Kio to say let's stop fighting to an enemy without saying any reason to say it. There is no idiot that will follow you and even if he did it it will be to trick you!!! GUH! this is frustrating! more than the ideology of kira.
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See also: votes for deletion Please list new pages below. ContentsImage:Nativity Monk.JPG
Anyway, while I still disagree with the reasoning above, at least there's some consensus against now and I'll bow to it gracefully. But before I shut up, y'all will have to pick a new image to replace Mr. Monk from here: My favorites are this and this but somehow I doubt those will pass privacy police scrutiny either. This is postcard-y but gives the wrong impression (nobody goes to Bethlehem for the mosques). This is a nice picture but doesn't really say very much... this and this are uglier but give some idea (and hey, the church is ugly too). Or maybe just this or that for that warm and fuzzy "Welcome to Bethlehem!" feeling. Jpatokal 02:18, 9 Oct 2004 (EDT)
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Freiburg i. Br.Was not VFD'd, yet Google reports "about 1,320,000" hits, and was (and still is) linked to from Baden Württemberg. Valid abbreviation for Freiburg im Breisgau, should be a redirect to Freiburg. ~ 22.214.171.124 15:06, 18 June 2007 (EDT) Outcome: Recreated as Redirect to Freiburg --Nick 05:05, 29 February 2008 (EST) PereiraThis page was not VFD'd. It was deleted @ 01:38, 20 December 2007 and then Pereira (Colombia) was moved to Pereira @ 01:39, 20 December 2007. At the time of deletion it was a disambiguation page. I have no objection to it being undeleted as Pereira (disambiguation). ~ 184.108.40.206 01:30, 20 December 2007 (EST)
Ferries in the MediterraneanWe need information on ferries around Mediterranean (or at least between the key destinations in Greece), and Ferries in the Mediterranean was the first attempt to gather such info that I can remember at Wikitravel. Earlier we have removed an extlink to a third-party source of schedules and routes available for Greece alone (see Talk:Greece#ferry schedule and routes). But if we also don't allow such info to be gathered by Wikitravelers--and we don't have an official one-stop source for such info, it's quite strange for me. I did travel around Greek islands, and it was really a nightmare to find any online source of information that give enough information even for my individual route--and yes, finally I turned to Lonely Planet (which helped a bit, but did not allow to complete my task). It's really pity for me that I couldn't vote to keep it earlier, so I vote for undeletion. VFD discussion can be found here: Wikitravel:Votes_for_deletion/September_2007#List_of_ferries. --DenisYurkin 17:24, 2 February 2008 (EST)
Outcome: Undeleted --Nick 05:01, 29 February 2008 (EST)
TrollstigenI'm still not sure whether this should have been deleted (I nominated it), and I'm not sure exactly what to do with it. But I just noticed it's one of the nine "other destinations" on the country page for Norway. That gives me additional pause. Anyway, I'll just leave this vfu up here and see if anyone has any good ideas. --Peter Talk 02:10, 11 August 2008 (EDT)
Several Copyright ViolationsAll the above were deleted on or about 26 February 2009 by User:Peterfitzgerald with the comment copyvio. While I applaude efforts to rid Wikitravel of spam, I think these deletions need discussion. The articles are probably valid as names (bar one on the basis of capitalisations) but are merely orphaned pages that are copyright violations. I thought we preferred to fix rather than delete such articles. An attention grabbing template is called Template:Copyvio and articles could be tagged this way rather than being deleted on sight - unless there is a website take down law in effect that now requires us to take down copyright violations pre-emptively before the website needs to be taken down - which I understand is about to happen here in New Zealand.... We could at least replace the bad articles with empty templates. - Huttite 09:09, 25 February 2009 (EST)
Xcaret, MexicoMaybe Xcaret is a privately-owned park, but it is also a natural area in Mexico's southeast. It has all the facilities to be considered a park. I did this page cause I think many people looks for it. In fact, spanish version doesn't have any problem, but editors of english version of Wikitravel want to delete it. I would want to know why if Disneyland has its own page, Xcaret can't. Because Disney is also a privately-owned park, and instead, Xcaret has very different purposes, such as nature preservation, and it is in fact an ecopark, a Wikitravel pages cathegory. The text is mine, photos are mine, so I can't find a reason to delete it. —The preceding comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs) .
GrundyI was about to move Grundy, Virginia (Buchanan County) to Grundy and noticed it had previously been speedily deleted by OldPine on 31 May 2008. However, I cannot find any deletion discussion, so since the article has been recreated I am undeleting the original article version too. -- Huttite 08:00, 5 October 2009 (EDT) PlainvillePlainville was deleted without discussion. - Huttite 18:10, 11 January 2010 (EST)
Still, no harm adding to the policy that articles with no travel content identified as page creation vandalism can be speedy deleted. This sets no precedent, and they can be recreated with legitimate travel content at any time subsequently. In the deletion comment, just note that it was speedy deleted as pcv, and then everyone is on the same page. --inas 18:03, 12 January 2010 (EST)


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Photographer's Note
We were on a day-trip in order to get in contact with local people and know more about them, when we came across these two children who were playing in the street.
I don't know if they were brothers or just friends, anyway, what impressed me the most were their smiles. Even though they live in extreme poverty these children were still able to smile to life.
Experiences like this touched me in so many ways and changed me for good. Sometimes we don't appreciate what we got and we want more, it happened to me too. To see these people who have nothing but they still manage to be happy made me realize how blessed I am.
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jadesgran (5431) 2014-01-23 22:25
Hello Sofia
This is a wonderful capture of these two little children.Like you, I feel very humbled when I see pics like this, but at least these two look happy to enjoy each others company.
Best Wishes
Apurba20 (984) 2014-01-24 2:54
Excellent emotions captured. You have clicked at the right time; somehow it seems that the happiness of these two is just about to start and any moment we may see intense laughter. The image seems to convey so much.
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Yes in concert, 1977
Left to right: Steve Howe, Alan White, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman |
Background information | |
Also known as | Yes! (Summer 1968-early 1969) |
Origin | London, England |
Genres | Progressive rock, symphonic rock, art rock |
Years active | 1968–80, 1983–2004, 2008–present |
Labels | Atlantic, Atco, Arista, Victory, Sanctuary, Eagle, Frontiers |
Associated acts | The Syn, The Buggles, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Cinema, XYZ, Asia, U.K., Moraz/Bruford, Conspiracy, Circa, Yoso, Mystery, Glass Hammer, Jon and Vangelis |
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Chris Squire Steve Howe Alan White Geoff Downes Jon Davison |
Past members | See Former members |
Yes are an English rock band who achieved success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. They are distinguished by their use of mystical and cosmic lyrics, live stage sets and lengthy compositions, often with complex instrumental and vocal arrangements. The band's current line-up since February 2012 consists of singer Jon Davison, guitarist Steve Howe, bass guitarist Chris Squire, keyboardist Geoff Downes, and drummer Alan White.
Squire formed Yes in 1968 with singer Jon Anderson. Squire and guitarist Peter Banks had played together in The Syn and then Mabel Greer's Toyshop. Anderson and later drummer Bill Bruford joined a line-up of Mabel Greer's Toyshop, which evolved into Yes. Keyboardist Tony Kaye completed the first Yes line-up. Their early sets were a mix of original material and cover versions.
The 1970s saw Yes release the albums that are widely viewed as their creative peak: The Yes Album, Fragile (both in 1971), Close to the Edge (1972), Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), Relayer (1974) and Going for the One (1977). For most of this period, the band included Anderson, Squire, Howe (who replaced Banks in 1970), Rick Wakeman on keyboards and Bruford, or later Alan White, on drums; Kaye and Patrick Moraz each play keyboards on one of these albums. After the relative failure of Tormato (1978) and the rise of punk rock, Anderson and Wakeman left the band in 1980; Squire, Howe and White recorded Drama with Downes and new vocalist Trevor Horn, both also members of The Buggles. The band disbanded in December 1980, with Howe and Downes subsequently creating Asia.
Yes reformed in 1983 with Anderson, Squire, White, a returning Kaye, and singer and guitarist Trevor Rabin, adopting a more pop rock sound. This quickly became the most commercially successful Yes lineup with 90125 (1983), which spawned the US number one single "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and Big Generator (1987). The tour in support of Union (1991), which amalgamated members of Yes and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, was a commercial success that featured an eight-man line-up (instead of a quintet). Subsequent albums and singles have sold less well.
The band toured almost constantly between 1997 and 2004, including both 30th and 35th anniversary shows, also releasing the albums Open Your Eyes (1997), The Ladder (1999), and Magnification (2001) during this period. After a four-year hiatus, Yes resumed touring, replacing Anderson with Benoît David and Wakeman with his son Oliver Wakeman due to health issues. In 2011 they released Fly from Here featuring Downes, who returned on keyboards after 30 years. The following year David left the band due to illness and was replaced by Jon Davison, also of Glass Hammer.[1][2] The band's twenty-first studio album Heaven & Earth, their first album with Davison, was released in July 2014.
Yes are one of the most popular, influential and critically acclaimed acts in the history of the progressive genre, and have influenced bands such as Dream Theater and Rush.[3] Nine of their twenty studio albums have reached the top ten in either the UK or the US charts, with two reaching the number one spot in the UK. They have sold 13.5 million certified units in the US.[4]
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- Formation and breakthrough (1968–71) 1.1
- Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales from Topographic Oceans (1971–74) 1.2
- Relayer, Going for the One, Tormato and the Paris sessions (1974–79) 1.3
- Drama and split (1980–81) 1.4
- Reformation, 90125 and Big Generator (1982–88) 1.5
- Camps and alliances: ABWH and Union (1989–92) 1.6
- Talk (1993–94) 1.7
- Keys to Ascension, Open Your Eyes and The Ladder (1995–2000) 1.8
- Magnification and further touring (2001–2004) 1.9
- Four-year hiatus and parting with Jon Anderson (2004–2008) 1.10
- Fly from Here, and Heaven & Earth (2010–present) 1.11
- Tours 2
- Discography 3
- Videography 4
Personnel 5
- Members 5.1
- Former members 5.2
- Timeline 5.3
- Covers and remixes 6
- Members' participation 7
- Further reading 8
- References 9
- Sources 10
- External links 11
Formation and breakthrough (1968–71)
In January 1968, bassist Tony Kaye, of Johnny Taylor's Star Combo and The Federals, became the keyboardist and the fifth member.[10] The newborn band rehearsed in the basement of The Lucky Horseshoe cafe on Shaftesbury Avenue between 10 June and 9 July 1968.[11][12][13]
Anderson suggested that they call the new band Life while Squire suggested that it be called World.[14] After renaming themselves as Yes! at Banks' suggestion,[6] the first gig under the new brand followed at a youth camp in East Mersea, Essex on 4 August. Early sets were formed of cover songs from artists such as The Beatles, The 5th Dimension and Traffic.[15] On 16 September, Yes performed at Blaise's club in London as a substitute for Sly & the Family Stone, who failed to turn up. They were well received by the audience, including the host Roy Flynn who became the band's manager that night.[16] That month, Bruford decided to quit performing to study at Leeds University.[17] His replacement, Tony O'Reilly of The Koobas, struggled to perform with the rest of the group on-stage.[17] After being refused a year's sabbatical leave, Anderson and Squire convinced Bruford to return for Yes' supporting slot for Cream's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 November.[17]
After seeing an early King Crimson gig in 1969, Yes realised that there was suddenly stiff competition on the London gigging circuit, and they needed to be much more technically proficient, starting regular rehearsals.[18] They subsequently signed a deal with Atlantic Records, and released their self-titled debut album that August.[19] Compiled of mostly original material, the record includes renditions of "Every Little Thing" by The Beatles and "I See You" by The Byrds. Although the album failed to break into the UK album charts, in his positive review for Rolling Stone magazine, Lester Bangs complimented the album's "sense of style, taste, and subtlety".[20] Melody Maker columnist Tony Wilson chose Yes and Led Zeppelin as the two bands "most likely to succeed".[21]
Following a tour of Scandinavia with The Small Faces, Yes performed a solo concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 21 March 1970. The second half consisted of excerpts from their second album Time and a Word, accompanied with a 20-piece youth orchestra.[22] Banks, who was dissatisfied with the idea of recording with an orchestra and the sacking of Flynn earlier in the year, left the group in May, two months prior the album's release.[19][23] Banks later claimed he was fired by Anderson and Squire, and that Kaye and Bruford had no prior knowledge that it would be happening.[18] Similar to the first album, Time and a Word features original songs and two new covers–"Everydays" by Buffalo Springfield and "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" by Richie Havens. The album broke into the UK charts, peaking at number 45. Banks' replacement was Tomorrow guitarist Steve Howe, who is photographed with the group on the American issue despite not playing on it.[24]
The band retreated to a rented farmhouse in Devon to write and rehearse new songs for their following album. Howe established himself as an integral part of the group's sound with his Gibson ES-175 and variety of acoustic guitars. With producer and engineer Eddie Offord, recording sessions lasted as long as 12 hours with each track being assembled from small sections at a time, which were pieced together to form a complete track. The band would then learn to play the song through after the final mix was complete.[25] Released in February 1971, The Yes Album peaked at number 4 in the UK and number 40 on the US Billboard 200 charts.
Yes embarked on a 28-day tour of Europe with Iron Butterfly in January 1971.[26] The band purchased Iron Butterfly's entire public address system which improved their on-stage performance and sound.[27] Their first date in North America followed on 24 June in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada supporting Jethro Tull.[28] Kaye performed his final show with Yes at the Crystal Palace Bowl that August. The decision was made after friction arising between Howe and himself on tour,[29] and his reported reluctance to play the Mellotron and the Minimoog synthesiser.
Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales from Topographic Oceans (1971–74)
At the time of Kaye's departure, Yes had already found their new keyboardist – Rick Wakeman, a classically trained player who left the folk rock group Strawbs earlier in the year. He was already a noted studio musician, with credits including T. Rex, David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Elton John. Squire commented that he could play "a grand piano for three bars, a Mellotron for two bars and a Moog for the next one absolutely spot on",[30] which gave Yes the orchestral and choral textures that benefited their new material.
Released on 26 November 1971, the band's fourth album Fragile showcased their growing interest in the structures of classical music, with an excerpt of The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky being played at the start of their concerts since the album's 1971–1972 tour.[31] Each member performed a solo track on the album, and it marked the start of their long collaboration with artist Roger Dean, who designed the group's logo, album art, and stage sets. Fragile peaked at number 7 in the UK and number 4 in the US[32] after it was released there in January 1972, and was their first record to reach the top ten in North America. The opening track, "Roundabout", was released as a shortened single that peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[33]
In February 1972, Yes recorded a cover version of "America" by Paul Simon. The single reached number 46 on the US singles chart.[34] The track subsequently appeared on The New Age of Atlantic, a 1972 compilation album of several bands signed to Atlantic Records, and again in the 1975 compilation Yesterdays.
Released in September 1972, Close to the Edge, the band's fifth album, was their most ambitious work so far. At 19 minutes, the title track took up an entire side on the vinyl record and combined elements of classical music, psychedelic rock, pop and jazz. The album reached number 3 in the US[32] and number 4 on the UK charts.[35] "And You and I" was released as a single that peaked at number 42 in the US.[34] The growing critical and commercial success of the band was not enough to retain Bruford, who left Yes in the summer of 1972, before the album's release, in order to join King Crimson. The band considered several possible replacements, including Aynsley Dunbar (who was playing with Frank Zappa at the time),[36] and decided on former Plastic Ono Band drummer Alan White, a friend of Anderson and Offord who had once sat in with the band weeks before Bruford's departure.[37] White learned the band's repertoire in three days before embarking on their 1972–1973 tour. By this point, Yes were beginning to enjoy worldwide commercial and critical success. Their early touring with White was featured on Yessongs, a triple live album released in May 1973 that documented shows from 1972. The album reached number 7 in the UK and number 12 in the US.[32][38] A concert film of the same name premiered in 1975[39] that documented their shows at London's Rainbow Theatre in December 1972, with added psychedelic visual images and effects.
"It is a fragmented masterpiece, assembled with loving care and long hours in the studio. Brilliant in patches, but often taking far too long to make its various points, and curiously lacking in warmth or personal expression..."Ritual" is a dance of celebration and brings the first enjoyable moments, where Alan's driving drums have something to grip on to and the lyrics of la la la speak volumes. But even this cannot last long and cohesion is lost once more to the gods of drab self indulgence."
Tales from Topographic Oceans was the band's sixth studio album, released on 14 December 1973. It marked a change in their fortunes and polarised fans and critics alike. The double vinyl set was based on Anderson's interpretation of the Shastric scriptures from a footnote within Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi. The album became the first LP in the UK to ship gold before the record arrived at retailers.[41] It went on to top the UK charts for two weeks while reaching number 6 in the US,[32] and became the band's fourth consecutive gold album. Wakeman was not pleased with the record and is critical of much of its material.[42] He felt sections were "bled to death" and contained too much musical padding. Wakeman left the band after the 1973–1974 tour; his solo album Journey to the Centre of the Earth topped the UK charts in May 1974.[43] The tour included five consecutive sold out shows at the Rainbow Theatre, the first time a rock band achieved this.[44]
Four members of the "classic lineup" were vegetarians.[45]
Relayer, Going for the One, Tormato and the Paris sessions (1974–79)
Several musicians were approached to replace Wakeman, including Vangelis Papathanassiou, Eddie Jobson of Roxy Music and former Atlantis/Cat Stevens keyboardist Jean Roussel. Yes ultimately chose Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz of Refugee, who arrived in August 1974[46] during the recording sessions for Relayer, which took place at Squire's home in Virginia Water, Surrey. Released in November that year, Relayer showcased a jazz fusion-influenced direction the band were pursuing. The album features the 22-minute track titled "The Gates of Delirium", which highlights a cosmic battle initially inspired by War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Its closing section, "Soon", was subsequently released as a single. The album reached number 4 in the UK and number 5 in the US.[32][47] Yes embarked on their 1974–1975 tour to support Relayer. The compilation album Yesterdays, released in 1975, contained tracks from Yes' first two albums, the b-side track from their "Sweet Dreams" single from 1970 titled "Dear Father", and the original ten-minute version of their cover of "America".[48]
Between 1975 and 1976, each member of the band released a solo album. Their subsequent 1976 tour of North America with Peter Frampton featured some of the band's most-attended shows. The 12 June show, also supported by Gary Wright and Pousette-Dart Band at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attracted over 100,000 people.[49] Roger Dean's brother Martyn was the main designer behind the tour's "Crab Nebula" stage set, while Roger and fabric designer Felicity Youette provided the backgrounds.
In late 1976, the band travelled to Switzerland and started recording for their album Going for the One at Mountain Studios, Montreux. It was then that Anderson sent early versions of "Going for the One" and "Wonderous Stories" to Wakeman, who felt he could contribute to such material better than the band's past releases. Moraz was let go, after Wakeman was booked on a session musician basis. Upon its release in July 1977, Going for the One topped the UK album charts for two weeks and reached number 8 in the US.[32][50] "Wonderous Stories" and "Going for the One" were released as singles in the UK and reached numbers 7 and 25, respectively.[50] Although the album's cover was designed by Hipgnosis, it still features their Roger Dean "bubble" logotype. The band's 1977 tour spanned across six months.
Tormato was released in September 1978 at the height of punk rock in England, during which the music press criticised Yes as representing the bloated excesses of early-1970s progressive rock. The album saw the band continuing their movement towards shorter songs; no track runs longer than eight minutes.[51] Wakeman replaced his Mellotrons with the Birotron, a tape replay keyboard, and Squire experimented with harmonisers and Mu-tron pedals with his bass. Production was handled collectively by the band and saw disagreements at the mixing stage among the members. The album reached number 8 in the UK and number 10 in the US charts.[32] Despite internal and external criticisms of the album, the band's 1978–1979 tour was a commercial success. Concerts were performed in the round with a £50,000-central revolving stage and a 360-degree sound system fitted above it. Yes earned a "Golden Ticket Award" for grossing over $1 million in box office receipts.[52]
In October 1979, the band convened in Paris with producer Roy Thomas Baker. Their diverse approach was now succumbing to division, as Anderson and Wakeman favoured the more fantastical and delicate approach while the rest preferred a heavier rock sound. Howe, Squire and White liked none of the music Anderson was offering at the time as it was too lightweight and lacking in the heaviness that they were generating in their own writing sessions. The Paris sessions abruptly ended in December after White broke his foot while rollerskating in a roller disco.[53] When the band, minus Wakeman (who had only committed to recording keyboard overdubs once new material would be ready to record) reconvened in February to resume work on the project, their growing musical differences, combined with internal dissension, obstructed progress. Journalist Chris Welch, after attending a rehearsal, noted that Anderson "was singing without his usual conviction and seemed disinclined to talk".[54] By late March, Howe, Squire and White had begun demoing material as an instrumental trio, increasingly uncertain about Anderson's future involvement. Eventually, a serious band dispute over finance saw Anderson leave Yes, with a dispirited Wakeman departing at around the same time.
Drama and split (1980–81)
In 1980, pop duo The Buggles (keyboardist Geoffrey Downes and singer Trevor Horn) acquired Brian Lane as a manager. The pair had had a worldwide hit with the single "Video Killed the Radio Star", and were working in the same rehearsal complex as Yes. The duo already had a song called "We Can Fly From Here," which they thought would be suitable for Yes and which they consequently pitched to the band. A demo of the song was recorded in May 1980 with Squire's participation.
At this point, the departure of Anderson and Wakeman had been kept secret from everyone outside the Yes inner circle. Seeing an option of continuing the band with new creative input and expertise, Squire revealed the situation to Horn and Downes and suggested that they join Yes as full-time members. Horn and Downes accepted the invitation and the reconfigured band recorded the Drama album, which was released in August 1980. The record displayed a heavier, harder sound than the material Yes recorded with Anderson in 1979, opening with the lengthy hard rocker "Machine Messiah". The album peaked at number 2 in the UK and number 18 in the US.[32] Their 1980 tour of North America and the UK received a mixed reaction from audiences. They were well received in the United States, and were awarded with a commemorative certificate after they performed a record 16 consecutive sold out concerts at Madison Square Garden since 1974.[55]
After the Drama tour, Yes reconvened in England to decide the band's next step, beginning by dismissing longtime manager Brian Lane. Horn chose to leave Yes in order to pursue a career in music production, with White and Squire next to depart. Left as the sole remaining members, Downes and Howe opted not to continue with the group and went their own separate ways in December 1980. A live compilation album of Yes performances from 1976 to 1978, mixed in mid-1979 and originally intended for release in late 1979, was released as Yesshows, peaking at number 22 in the UK charts and number 43 in the US.[32] An announcement came from the group's management in March 1981 confirming that Yes no longer existed.
Downes and Howe later reunited to form Asia with former King Crimson bassist and vocalist John Wetton, and drummer Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Squire and White continued to work together, initially recording sessions with Jimmy Page for a proposed band called XYZ (short for "ex-Yes-and-Zeppelin") in the spring of 1981. Page's former bandmate Robert Plant was also to be involved as the vocalist but he lost enthusiasm, citing his ongoing grieving for recently deceased Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The short-lived group produced a few demo tracks, elements of which would appear in Page's band The Firm and on future Yes tracks "Mind Drive" and "Can You Imagine?". In late 1981, Squire and White released "Run with the Fox", a Christmas single with Squire on vocals which received radio airplay through the 1980s and early 1990s during the Christmas periods. A second Yes compilation album, Classic Yes, was released in November 1981.
Reformation, 90125 and Big Generator (1982–88)
In 1982, Phil Carson of Atlantic Records introduced Squire and White to a South African rock guitarist and singer called Trevor Rabin, who had initially made his name with the pop band Rabbitt, subsequently releasing three solo albums, working as a record producer and even briefly being considered as a member of Asia. The three teamed up in a new band called Cinema, for which Squire also recruited the original Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye. Despite the presence of three Yes musicians, Cinema was not originally intended to be a continuation of Yes, and entered the studio to record a debut album as a brand new group. Although Rabin and Squire initially shared lead vocals for the project, Trevor Horn was briefly brought into Cinema as a potential singer,[56] but soon opted to become the band's producer instead.
Horn polished the band's developing songs with modern studio effects and digital sampling and also played a prominent role in vocal arrangement (including contributing to the backing vocals). However, his clashes with Tony Kaye (complicated by the fact that Rabin was playing most of the keyboards during the recording sessions) led to Kaye's departure after around six months of rehearsing.[56] Meanwhile, Squire encountered Jon Anderson (who, since leaving Yes, had released two solo albums and success with the Jon and Vangelis project) at a Los Angeles party and played him the Cinema demo tracks. Anderson was invited into the project as lead singer and joined in April 1983 during the last few weeks of the sessions, having comparatively little creative input beyond adding his lead vocals and re-writing some lyrics.At the suggestion of record company executives, Cinema then changed their name to Yes in June 1983. Rabin initially objected to this, as he now found that he had inadvertently joined a reunited band with a history and expectations, rather than help launch a new group.[57] However, the presence of four former Yes members in the band (three of whom were founding members, including the distinctive lead singer) suggested that the name change was sound commercial strategy. The new album marked a radical change in style as the revived Yes had adopted a pop rock sound that showed little of their progressive roots. This incarnation of the band has sometimes been informally referred to as "Yes-West", reflecting the band's new base in Los Angeles rather than London.
Yes released their comeback album 90125 (named after its catalogue serial number on Atco Records) in November 1983. It became their biggest-selling album, selling over 6 million copies, and introduced the band to younger fans. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks, and went on to reach the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the only single from Yes to do so,[34] for two weeks in January 1984. Kaye's short-term replacement on keyboards, Eddie Jobson, appeared briefly in the original video but was edited out as much as possible once Kaye had been persuaded to return to the band.[58]
In 1984, the singles "Leave It" and "It Can Happen" reached number 24 and 57 respectively.[34] Yes also earned their only Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1985 for the two-minute track "Cinema".[59] They were also nominated for an award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals with "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and a Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal award with 90125.[60] The band's 1984–1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $1 million.[61] Yes' mini-LP released in 1985, 9012Live: The Solos, earned Yes a nomination for a second Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Squire's solo track, a rendition of "Amazing Grace".[62]
Yes began recording for their twelfth album, Big Generator, in 1986. The sessions underwent many starts and stops due to the use of multiple recording locations in Italy, London and Los Angeles as well as interpersonal problems between Rabin and Horn, which kept the album from timely completion. Eventually Rabin took over final production, and the album was released in September 1987, reaching number 17 in the UK and number 15 in the US.[32] Big Generator earned Yes a nomination for a second Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988.[63] The single "Love Will Find a Way" topped the Mainstream Rock chart, while "Rhythm of Love" reached number 2 and "Shoot High Aim Low" number 11.[32] The 1987–1988 tour ended with an appearance at Madison Square Garden on 14 May 1988 as part of Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary.
Camps and alliances: ABWH and Union (1989–92)
By the end of 1988, Anderson felt creatively sidelined by Rabin and Squire and had grown tired of the musical direction of the "Yes-West" line-up. He took leave of the band, asserting that he would never stay in Yes purely for the money, and started work in Montserrat on a solo project that eventually involved Wakeman, Howe, and Bruford. This collaboration led to suggestions that there would be some kind of reformation of the "classic" Yes, although from the start the project had included bass player Tony Levin, whom Bruford had worked with in King Crimson. The project was contractually unable to take over or otherwise use the Yes name as Anderson, Squire, White, Kaye, and Rabin held the rights which dated back to the 90125 contract. The group became known as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which suited Bruford since he wanted to distance himself from the "Yes" name.
Their eponymous album released in 1989 featured "Brother of Mine", which became an MTV hit, and went gold in the United States. It later emerged that the four band members had not all recorded together; Anderson and producer Chris Kimsey slotted their parts into place. Howe has stated publicly[64] that he was unhappy with the mix of his guitars on the album, though a version of "Fist of Fire" with more of Howe's guitars left intact appeared on the In a Word box set in 2002. ABWH toured in 1989 and 1990 as "An Evening of Yes Music" which featured Levin, keyboardist Julian Colbeck, and guitarist Milton McDonald as support musicians. A live album was recorded and released in 1993 titled An Evening of Yes Music Plus that featured Jeff Berlin on bass due to Levin suffering from illness. The tour was also dogged by legal battles sparked by Atlantic Records due to the band's references to Yes in promotional materials and the tour title.
Following the tour the group returned to the recording studio to produce their second album, tentatively called Dialogue. After hearing the tracks Arista Records refused to release the album as they felt the initial mixes were weak. They encouraged the group to seek outside songwriters, preferably ones who could help them deliver hit singles. Anderson approached Rabin about the situation, and Rabin sent Anderson a demo tape with four songs, indicating that ABWH could have one but had to send the others back. Arista listened to all four and wanted all of them, but Rabin would not agree to the request. The "Yes-West" group were working on a follow-up to Big Generator and had been shopping around for a new singer. Ex-Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson had already rejected the post; while he enjoyed working and writing with the group, he thought it unwise to attempt to pass off the resulting music as "Yes." The band had also been working with Kansas singer Steve Walsh[56] and with Billy Sherwood of World Trade. Walsh only spent one day with them, but Sherwood and the band worked well enough together and continued with writing sessions. Arista suggested that the "Yes-West" group, with Anderson on vocals, record the four songs to add to the new album which would then be released under the Yes name.
Union was released in April 1991 and is the thirteenth studio album from Yes. Each group played their own songs, with Anderson singing on all tracks. Squire sang background vocals on a few of the ABWH tracks, with Tony Levin playing all the bass on those songs. The album does not feature all eight members playing at once. The track "Masquerade" earned Yes a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1992.[65] Union sold approximately 1.5 million copies worldwide, and peaked at number 7 in the UK and number 15 in the US charts.[32] Two singles from the album were released. "Lift Me Up" topped the Mainstream Rock charts in May 1991 for six weeks, while "Saving My Heart" peaked at number 9.[34]
Almost the entire band have openly stated their dislike of Union. Bruford has disowned the album entirely, and Wakeman was reportedly unable to recognise any of his keyboard work in the final edit and threw his copy of the album out of his limousine. He has since referred to the album as "Onion" because it makes him cry when he thinks about it. Elias later stated publicly in an interview that Anderson, as the associate producer, knew of the session musicians' involvement. He added that he and Anderson had even initiated their contributions, because hostility between some of the band members at the time was preventing work from being accomplished.[66] The 1991–1992 Union tour united all eight members on a revolving circular stage. Following its conclusion, Bruford chose not to remain involved with Yes and returned to his jazz project Earthworks.
Talk (1993–94)
In 1993, the album Symphonic Music of Yes was released and features orchestrated Yes tracks arranged by David Palmer. Howe, Bruford and Anderson perform on the record, joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the London Community Gospel Choir. The following Yes studio album, as with Union, was masterminded by a record company, rather than by the band itself. Victory Music approached Rabin with a proposal to produce an album solely with the 90125 line-up. Rabin initially countered by requesting that Wakeman also be included. Rabin began assembling the album at his home, using the then-pioneering concept of a digital home studio, and used material written by himself and Anderson. The new album was well into production in 1993, but Wakeman's involvement had finally been cancelled, as his refusal to leave his long-serving management created insuperable legal problems.
Talk was released in March 1994 and is the band's fourteenth studio release. Its cover was designed by pop artist Peter Max. The record was digitally recorded in its entirety by Rabin on 10 GB of hard disk storage on four Apple Macintosh computers running Digital Performer. It blended elements of radio-friendly rock with a more structurally ambitious approach taken from the band's progressive blueprint, with the fifteen-minute track "Endless Dream". The album reached number 20 in the UK and number 33 in the US.[32] The track "The Calling" reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and "Walls", which Rabin had written with Roger Hodgson, peaked at number 24.[34] Yes performed "Walls" on Late Show with David Letterman on 20 June 1994.
The 1994 tour (for which the band included Billy Sherwood on additional guitar and keyboards) used a sound system developed by Rabin named Concertsonics which allowed the audience located in certain seating areas to tune portable FM radios to a specific frequency, so they could hear the concert with headphones.[67] In early 1995, following the tour, Kaye and Rabin both left Yes to pursue other projects.
Keys to Ascension, Open Your Eyes and The Ladder (1995–2000)
In November 1995, Anderson, Squire and White resurrected the "classic" 1970s lineup of Yes by inviting Wakeman and Howe back to the band, recording two new lengthy tracks called "Be the One" and "That, That Is". In March 1996, Yes performed three live shows at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California which were recorded and released, along with the new studio tracks, that October on CMC International Records as the Keys to Ascension album, which peaked at number 48 in the UK and number 99 in the US.[32] A same-titled live video of the shows was also released that year.
Yes continued to record new tracks in the studio, drawing some material written around the time of the XYZ project. At one point the new songs were to be released as a studio album, but commercial considerations meant that the new tracks were eventually packaged with the remainder of the 1996 San Luis Obispo shows in November 1997 on Keys to Ascension 2. The record managed to reach number 62 in the UK, but failed to chart in the US.[32] Disgruntled at the way a potential studio album had been sacrificed in favour of the Keys to Ascension releases (as well as the way in which a Yes tour was being arranged without his input or agreement) Wakeman left the group again. (The studio material from both albums would eventually be compiled and re-released without the live tracks onto a single CD, 2001's Keystudio.)
With Yes in disarray again, Squire turned to Billy Sherwood (by now the band's engineer) for help.[68] Both men had been working on a side project called Conspiracy and reworked existing demos and recordings from there to turn them into Yes songs, and also worked on new material with Anderson and White (Howe's involvement at this stage was minimal, mainly taking place towards the end of the sessions). Sherwood's integral involvement with the writing, production and performance of the music led to his finally joining Yes as a full member (taking on the role of harmony singer, keyboardist and second guitarist).
The results of the sessions were released in November 1997 as the seventeenth Yes studio album, Open Your Eyes (on the Beyond Music label, who ensured that the group had greater control in packaging and naming). The music (mainly at Sherwood's urging) attempted to bridge the differing Yes styles of the 1970s and 1980s.[68] (Sherwood: "My goal was to try to break down those partisan walls—because all of the music was so good. There are people who won't listen to Genesis, say, after 1978, but I can't imagine that. I love all music. That was the one thing I tried to do, to bring unity. During the time I was with Yes, you heard new things, and classic things. For that, I am proud — to have aligned planets for a moment in time."[68]) However, Open Your Eyes was not a chart success; the record peaked at number 151 on the Billboard 200[32] but failed to enter the charts in the UK. The title single managed to reach number 33 on the Mainstream Rock chart.[34]
For the 1997/1998 Open Your Eyes tour, Yes hired Russian keyboard player Igor Khoroshev, who had played on some of the album tracks. Significantly, the tour setlist featured only a few pieces from the new album, and mostly concentrated on earlier material. Anderson and Howe, who had been less involved with the writing and production on Open Your Eyes than they'd wished, would express dissatisfaction about the album later.
By the time the band came to record their eighteenth studio album The Ladder with producer Bruce Fairbairn, Khoroshev had become a full-time member (with Sherwood now concentrating on songwriting, vocal arrangements and second guitar). With Khoroshev's classically-influenced keyboard style, and with all members now making more or less equal writing contributions, the band's sound returned to its eclectic and integrated 1970s progressive rock style. The Ladder also featured Latin music ingredients and clear world music influences, mostly brought in by Alan White (although Fairbairn's multi-instrumentalist colleagueRandy Raine-Reusch made a strong contribution to the album's textures). One of the album tracks, "Homeworld (The Ladder)", was written for Relic Entertainment's Homeworld, a real-time strategy computer game and was used as the credits and outro theme.
The Ladder was released in September 1999, peaking at number 36 in the UK and number 99 in the US.[32] While on tour in 1999 and early 2000, Yes recorded their performance at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, releasing it in September 2000 as a DVD and live album called House of Yes: Live from House of Blues. This would be the last album to feature Billy Sherwood, who saw his role in Yes as creating and performing new music. Realising that the rest of the band now wished to concentrate on performing the back catalogue, he amicably resigned from Yes at the end of the tour.[68]
Later in the year, Yes embarked on the three-month Masterworks tour of the United States, on which they performed only material which had been released between 1970 and 1974 (The Yes Album through to Relayer). While on tour, Khoroshev was involved in a backstage incident of sexual assault[69][70][71] and parted company with the band at the end of the tour.
Magnification and further touring (2001–2004)
In 2001, Yes released their nineteenth studio album Magnification. Recorded without a keyboardist, the album features a 60-piece orchestra conducted by Larry Groupé; the first time the band used an orchestra since Time and a Word in 1970. The record was not a chart success; it peaked at number 71 in the UK and number 186 in the US.[32] Yes toured with a symphony orchestra in 2001 with keyboardist Tom Brislin as Wakeman was occupied with his solo tours. Their performance in Amsterdam was released on DVD in 2002 and CD in 2009 as Symphonic Live.
Following Wakeman's announcement of his return in April 2002, Yes embarked on their Full Circle Tour in 2002–2003 that included their first performances in Australia since 1973.[72] The triple compilation album The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection was released in July 2003, reaching number 10 in the UK charts, their highest-charting album since 1991, and number 131 in the US. On 26 January 2004, the film Yesspeak premiered in a number of select theatres, followed by a closed-circuit live acoustic performance of the group that was released as Yes Acoustic: Guaranteed No Hiss later on. A 35th anniversary tour followed in 2004 which was documented on the live DVD Songs from Tsongas.
In 2004, Squire, Howe and White reunited for one night only with former members Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin and Geoff Downes during a show celebrating Horn's career, performing three Yes songs. The show video was released in DVD in 2008 under the name Trevor Horn and Friends: Slaves To The Rhythm.[73][74]
On March 18, 2003 minor planet (7707) Yes was named in honor of the band.[75]
Four-year hiatus and parting with Jon Anderson (2004–2008)
After the 35th anniversary tour in September 2004, Yes were inactive for four years. The band were unable to continue touring because of Anderson's health issues. Anderson, unlike the other members, was not interested in producing a new studio album after the low sales of Magnification. He claimed that recording one was not "logical any more," and no announcement was made regarding a release of the new material.[76]
A 40th anniversary "Close to the Edge and Back" tour was scheduled to begin in 2008 - Anderson would later claim that the band had rehearsed four new "lengthy, multi-movement compositions" for the tour.[77] With Rick Wakeman unable to tour for health reasons, his son Oliver Wakeman was chosen to replace him on keyboards indefinitely. The tour was abruptly cancelled in May 2008 after Anderson suffered an asthma attack and was diagnosed with acute respiratory failure. Anderson later claimed that he had "just needed a break, but the guys were upset about that."[77]
In 2008, after four years of delay, the remainder of Yes became tired of waiting and Anderson was replaced as lead singer by Canadian musician Benoît David, a member of Mystery and of the Yes tribute band Close to the Edge. From 2008 to 2010, Yes performed the In the Present Tour, with Asia and Peter Frampton supporting the band on certain legs. A number of dates in 2009 were cancelled when Squire required emergency leg surgery plus recovery time.[78]
Fly from Here, and Heaven & Earth (2010–present)
In August 2010, it was announced that new material had been written for Fly from Here, Yes' twentieth studio album.[79][80] Howe dispelled rumours that Anderson was invited back to sing on the record, asserting that all studio recording was to be carried out by "the line-up that actually...does the work."[81]
Yes signed a deal with Frontiers Records and began recording in Los Angeles with Trevor Horn serving as producer. Much of the album material was extrapolated from a pair of songs written by Horn and Geoff Downes around the time that they had been Yes members during 1980 and the Drama album. During the recording sessions, the band thought it would be wise to bring Downes back to replace Oliver Wakeman on keyboards, reasoning that he was closer to the material. Upon completion of recording in March 2011,[82] and post-production a month later,[83] the album was released worldwide that July.[84] Fly from Here peaked at number 30 in the UK and 36 in the US.[32]
In March 2011, Yes embarked on their Rite of Spring and Fly From Here tours to support Fly from Here,[85] with Styx and Procol Harum supporting on select dates. 2011 saw the release of the live Yes album and DVD, In the Present – Live from Lyon, taken from the band's previous tour.
In February 2012, after David contracted a respiratory illness, he was replaced by Glass Hammer singer Jon Davison. Davison was recommended to Squire by their common friend Taylor Hawkins, drummer for the Foo Fighters.[86]From March 2013 to June 2014, Yes completed their Three Album Tour where they performed The Yes Album, Close to the Edge and Going for the One in their entirety.[87][88][89] During the tour, they led a progressive-rock themed cruise titled "Cruise to the Edge".[90] A second cruise happened April 2014, and the band will headline the 2015 edition in November.
In August 2013, the fan campaign Voices for Yes[91] was launched to get the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[92][93] The campaign was headed by two US political operators: John Brabender, senior media strategist for Republican Rick Santorum's 2012 US presidential campaign, and Tad Devine, who worked on Democrats John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and Al Gore's 2000 campaign.[94][95][96] Also involved were former NBC president Steve Capus and former Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs Sara Taylor. A documentary about the campaign is in production.[97] On 16 October 2013, Yes failed to be inducted.[98]
From January to March 2014,[99][100] Yes recorded a new studio album in the Los Angeles area with producer Roy Thomas Baker, their first one with new lead singer Davison. On 8 March 2014, former member Billy Sherwood announced he would act as backing vocal engineer on the album.[101] On 24 March, the band revealed the album title to be Heaven & Earth.[102] Squire described the recording as "a very enjoyable experience" and Baker someone "really good to work with".[53] Squire also noted that Davison "contributed very strongly in terms of writing, both musically and lyrically [...] he has pretty much written all the lyrics". The album was mixed in March 2014.[53]
In July 2014, Yes resumed the theme of performing albums in their entirety, touring North America with Fragile and Close to the Edge performed in their entirety with songs from Heaven & Earth and an "encore set" of their popular songs.[103] They also toured in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan in November 2014.[104]
In 2013, Anderson expressed a wish to return to Yes in the future for a "tour everybody dreams of",[105] and cited Yes's nomination for inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a motive for a possible reunion.[106] Squire has also noted the possibility of an "expanded Yes line-up" similar to the eight-member formation in 1991.[107] Howe, however, has stated his opposition to a reunion with Anderson, asserting "I wish Jon luck with his music. I seriously and truthfully feel that way. But I'm not sure our mutual desire to achieve the same thing exists anymore. I think we burned it out a bit. We crossed paths and we're not together anymore. I think there has to be some element of moving on."[108]
A live CD, DVD, and Blu-ray of the band's show on 11 May 2014 in Bristol (performed during the Three Album Tour) will be released on 9 December 2014 as Like It Is: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome. It will feature the two albums Going for the One and The Yes Album performed in their entirety i.e. the complete show minus the Close to the Edge album.
Year | Video | Director |
1975 | "Yessongs" | Peter Neal |
1977 | "Wonderous Stories" | |
1978 | "Don't Kill the Whale" | |
1978 | "Madrigal" | |
1980 | "Tempus Fugit" | |
1980 | "Into the Lens" | |
1983 | "Owner of a Lonely Heart" | |
1983 | "Leave It" | |
1983 | "It Can Happen" | |
1985 | "Hold On" (live) | |
1987 | "Love Will Find a Way" | |
1987 | "Rhythm of Love" | |
1991 | "Lift Me Up" | |
2001 | "Don't Go" | Bob Cesca |
2011 | "We Can Fly" | |
2011 | "Live from Lyon" | Philippe Nicolet |
- Chris Squire – bass guitar, backing vocals (1968–1981, 1982–present)
- Steve Howe – guitars, backing vocals (1970–1981, 1990–1992, 1995–present)
- Alan White – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1972–1981, 1982–present)
- Geoff Downes – keyboards (1980–1981, 2011–present)
- Jon Davison – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine, keyboards (2012–present)
Former members
- Jon Anderson – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, harp (1968–1980, 1983–1988, 1990–2008)
- Tony Kaye – keyboards, backing vocals (1968–1971, 1982–June 1983, October 1983 – 1994)
- Peter Banks – guitar, backing vocals (1968–1970; died 2013)
- Bill Bruford – drums, percussion (1968–September 1968, November 1968 – 1972, 1990–1992)
- Tony O'Reilly – drums (September 1968 – November 1968)
- Rick Wakeman – keyboards (1971–1974, 1976–1980, 1990–1992, 1995–1996, 2002–2008)
- Patrick Moraz – keyboards (1974–1976)
- Trevor Horn – lead vocals (1980–1981)
- Trevor Rabin – guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards (1982–1994)
- Eddie Jobson – keyboards (June 1983–October 1983)
- Billy Sherwood – guitar, backing vocals (1997–2000; touring member - 1994), keyboards (1997)
- Igor Khoroshev – keyboards, backing vocals (1997–2000)
- Benoît David – lead vocals (2008–2012)
- Oliver Wakeman – keyboards (2008–2011)
- Former live members
- Tom Brislin – keyboards (2001–2002)
Covers and remixes
After the release of 90125, Yes released an extended single "disco" remix of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" called "The Red and Blue Mix" on cassette tape. A version of "Leave It" using scratching was on the b-side. This version was filmed and was an introduction video on a subsequent tour.
Virgil Howe (son of Steve Howe) re-imagined Yes's music into a techno context album, Yes Remixes in 2003.
In 2005, DJ Max Graham remixed Yes' "Owner of a Lonely Heart," credited to Max Graham Vs. Yes. The song reached the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart.[109]
Two characters in the film The Break-Up sing "Owner of a Lonely Heart" a cappella at a dinner. The song was included on the soundtrack album of music from the film.[110]
Members' participation
There are several releases involving multiple members of Yes working outside of the band context. Those including at least three (current or former) Yes members are:
- 1973 : The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Rick Wakeman, with appearances by Squire, Howe, White and Bruford
- 1975 : Fish Out of Water, by Chris Squire, with appearances by Bruford and Moraz
- 1975 : Beginnings, by Steve Howe, with appearances by Bruford, White and Moraz
- 1979 : The Steve Howe Album, by Steve Howe, with appearances by Bruford, White and Moraz
- 1991 : The Classical Connection II by Rick Wakeman, including an archival track with Squire, Bruford and Howe
- 1995 : Tales from Yesterday, a Yes tribute album, with appearances by Howe, Banks, Moraz and Sherwood
- 1999 : Encore, Legends, & Paradox, produced by Robert Berry and drummer Trent Gardner, with 10 covers of ELP by multiple musicians including Banks, Khoroshev and Downes
- 2002 : Pigs & Pyramids-An All Star Lineup Performing The Songs Of Pink Floyd – track 3 "Comfortably Numb" performed by Squire, White and Sherwood, while Sherwood and Kaye appear on other tracks
- 2005 : Back Against The Wall, a Pink Floyd tribute, produced by Billy Sherwood, with Squire, Howe, White, Wakeman, Kaye, Sherwood and Downes, among others
- 2006 : Return to the Dark Side of the Moon, a Pink Floyd tribute, produced by Billy Sherwood, with Wakeman, Howe, Kaye, White, Bruford, Banks and Downes, among others
- 2007 : CIRCA: 2007, by CIRCA:, including Sherwood, Kaye and White; also including material co-written by Rabin
- 2007 : From Here to Infinity, a project led by Billy Sherwood including appearances by Kaye, Wakeman, Howe and White on a cover of Yes' "Starship Trooper"
- 2008 : Led Box: The Ultimate Tribute To Led Zeppelin, with Sherwood, Kaye, Wakeman and Downes, among others
- 2009 : Abbey Road: A Tribute To The Beatles, produced by Billy Sherwood, with Kaye, White and Downes, among others
- 2012 : Songs of the Century: An All-Star Tribute to Supertramp, a tribute album organised by Sherwood, with appearances by Squire, Kaye, Wakeman, Banks and Downes, among others
- 2012 : The Prog Collective, a project led by Billy Sherwood including appearances by Squire, Banks, Wakeman and Kaye, among others
- 2012 : The Fusion Syndicate, a project led by Billy Sherwood including appearances by Wakeman and Kaye, among others
- 2012 : A Spoonful of Time, by Nektar, with appearances by Howe, Moraz, Wakeman, Downes and Sherwood, among others
- 2012 : Who are You: An All Star Tribute to The Who, a tribute album with appearances by Wakeman, Banks and Sherwood, among others
- 2013 : In Extremis, by Days Between Stations, with Sherwood, Wakeman and Banks
Further reading
- English
- Yes: The Authorized Biography, Dan Hedges, London, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1981
- Yes: But What Does It Mean?, Thomas Mosbø, Milton, a Wyndstar Book, 1994
- Yesstories: Yes in Their Own Words, Tim Morse and Yes, St. Martin's Griffin Publishing, 15 May 1996
- Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock, Bill Martin, Chicago e La Salle, Open Court, 1 November 1996
- Close To the Edge – The Story of Yes, Chris Welch, Omnibus Press, 1999/2003/2008
- Beyond and Before: The Formative Years of Yes, Peter Banks & Billy James, Bentonville, Golden Treasure Publishing, 2001
- Yes: Perpetual Change, David Watkinson and Rick Wakeman, Plexus Publishing, 1 November 2001
- Yes: An Endless Dream Of '70s, '80s And '90s Rock Music, Stuart Chambers, Burnstown, General Store Publishing House, 2002
- Yes Tales: An Unauthorized Biography of Rock's Most Cosmic Band, Scott Robinson, in Limerick Form, Lincoln, Writers Club Press, iUniverse Inc., 2002
- The Extraordinary World of Yes, Alan Farley, Paperback, 2004
- Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, and More, Bill Bruford, 6 March 2009, Jawbone Press, London
- Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock, Will Romano, 1 November 2010
- French
- Yes, Un Sentiment Océanique Dans Le Rock, Lionel Daloz, éd. Eä, 23 November 2009
- German
- Yessongs: Round About Jutesack, Michael Rudolf, Hannover, Wehrhahn Verlag, 2001
- Hungarian
- Yes, A rockzene rendszere, Tibor Vasváry-Tóth, Budapest, Revelation, 1994 ISBN 963-04-4176-4
- Italian
- Yes, Paolo Battigelli; Armando Gallo, Roma, éd. Fratelli Gallo, 1985
- Progressive & Underground '67 – '76, Cesare Rizzi, Florence, Giunti Editore, 2003
- Fragile: La Storia Degli Yes, Chris Welch, traduction by Stefano Pogelli, ed. Stampa alternativa, 2009
- Spanish
- Radiografía Del Rock Experimental. De La Psicodelia A La Actualidad Del Rock Progresivo, Sergio Guillén y Andrés Puente, Castellarte Editorial Multicultural, 2006
- Songbooks
- Yes Complete - Deluxe Edition, October 1, 1981
- Yes: Back from the Edge, Mike Mettler, Guitar School 3, no. 5, September 1991
- Classic Yes – Selections from Yesyears, April 1993
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- ^ "Top Selling Artists". RIAA. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Yes: Perpetual Change" by David Watkinson, Plexus Publishing, 2001
- ^ a b c d e Welch 2008, p. 33–34.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 23.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 24.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 37
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 38
- ^ Bruford, p. 35
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 39
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 44
- ^ Yesspeak Live: The Director's Cut
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 45
- ^ Welch 2008, pp. 50–51
- ^ a b c Welch 2008, pp. 52–53.
- ^ a b "Interview with Peter Banks by Mark Powell".
- ^ a b Welch 2008, p. 315
- ^ "Yes: Yes : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Web.archive.org. 7 February 1970. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ^ Liner notes on Yes (1969)
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- ^ Welch, 2008, p. 89
- ^ Morse, Tim (2000). "Conversation with Eddy Offord". Notes From the Edge (www.nfte.org). Retrieved 12 August 2011.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 102
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 104
- ^ Bruford, p. 55
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 109
- ^ Squire, Chris. BBC broadcast of Sounding Out: Yes on 10 January 1972.
- ^ Yessongs track listing. Atlantic Records 1973.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Yes Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ^ "Yes > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
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- ^ Welch 2008, p. 129
- ^ Suchow, Rick. "Chris Squire Takes A Straight And Stronger Course". Bass Musician Magazine. V.I.E., LLC. Retrieved March 2013.
- ^ "Yes' Alan White Exclusive Interview: Modern Drummer Magazine". Moderndrummer.com. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 136
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 146
- ^ "Yes – Adrift on the Oceans". Melody Maker. 1 December 1973. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ "Yes LP Breaks Ground in U.K.". Billboard. 15 December 1973. p. 42. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ "Yes, we were the original Spinal Tap, says Rick Wakeman of Seventies prog-rock supergroup". London Evening Standard. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.
- ^ "Number 1 Albums – 1970s". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ Wooding, p. 114
- ^ Prog Spring Entry 3 Slate 15 August 2012
- ^ "News Briefs". Billboard. 31 August 1974.
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 154
- ^ Barnes, Ken (19 June 1975). "Relayer & Yesterdays". Rolling Stone.
- ^ Crescenti, Peter (13 September 1976). "Yestour '76 – Laser Show Intrigues Audiences". Circus Magazine.
- ^ a b Welch 2008, p. 166
- ^ Loder, Kurt (17 October 1978). "The Yes Decade". Circus Magazine.
- ^ Wooding, p. 197
- ^ a b c "An Interview with Chris Squire of YES - March 19, 2014". lithiummagazine.com - 21 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ Welch, Musicians Only, 14 June 1980, p. 5
- ^ Welch 2008, p. 197
- ^ a b c "Trevor Rabin – capturing adrenaline". Interview with Trevor Rabin in Innerviews websize by Anil Prasad, May 2004
- ^ "Web dedicada a la Música de Cine y Bandas Sonoras". ScoreMagacine.com. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ Why I did not join Yes - by Eddie Jobson
- ^ "27th Annual Grammy Awards Final Nominations". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 97 (4): 78. 26 January 1985.
- ^ "And What's Your Line on the Winners?". The Chicago Tribune. 22 February 1985. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ Morse, Steve (28 February 1986). "GENESIS: PART-TIME SOLOISTS, PART-TIME BAND". Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ "29th Grammy Awards – 1987". Rock on the Net. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ McShane, Larry (15 January 1988). "Irish rockers among Grammy nominees".
- ^ "Steve Howe - Into the storm". Innerviews. 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Grammy Nominations Span Streisand, Seal, Seattle Symphony".
- ^ Henry Potts. "Bondegezou.co.uk". Bondegezou.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ Gettelman, Parry (5 August 1994). "Yes Mines Cutting Edge Of Sound". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Something Else! Interview: Billy Sherwood, Formerly of Yes" – interview in Something Else!, October 13 2011
- ^ "Yes keyboardist needs to keep his hands on the keys" - article in The Washington Post, July 26 2000
- ^ "Touchy-Feely Musician Gets Slapped" - article in Pollstar, July 26, 2000
- ^ Yes in the Press, July 28, 2000
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc (1 November 2003). Spotlight: Yes 35th Anniversary"Billboard". Billboard: 45–46, 48–50, 55–59. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "2004 concert with Trevor Horn".
- ^ "Trevor Horn and Friends: Slaves to Rhythm".
- ^ http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/special/rocknroll/0007707.html
- ^ "Yes Reveals 'Very Different' New Material". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Ex-Yes Frontman Jon Anderson Opens Up About Getting Fired". Rolling Stone Music (www.rollingstone.com). Retrieved 12 August 2011.
- ^ Westerly, Mal (12 February 2009). "Prog Rockers YES Cancel Slate of Gigs". MusicNewsNet.com. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ "Yes, Peter Frampton performing at Lucky Star Casino in Oklahoma". NewsOK.com. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ "DigitalJournal.com". DigitalJournal.com. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ "Interview: Steve Howe on Asia's "Omega," Touring With Yes, and the Steve Howe Trio". Premier Guitar. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ "Yes' Squire on band's first album in a decade". Bradenton.com. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Mascali, Nikki M. "Affirmative action". theweekender.com. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
- ^ "Buzz Worthy: New Yes album 'Fly From Here' ready for release". Buzz Worthy. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Concert review: Yes at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Express & Star, 12 November 2011
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Earlier today, I read a post on Teleread.org about Blue Leaf, a company that will scan your book and send you a searchable PDF file. The service costs about 4 cents per page, plus a flat $15 fee to cover operating costs and return shipping.
I immediately wondered whether this was the answer I've been looking for to convert the small collection of books I have that aren't available digitally. I'm too lazy to do all the book scanning by hand, as I suspect most readers are, so these books have remained on my To Do list for years now.
An affordable way to convert a personal library? MAYBE.
I decided to try out the service on an out-of-print book that the publisher has yet to make available as a digital file; in fact, it was never even published in the United States. I bought it from Amazon UK back in 1997, and physical copies of it now go for $50 or more on various websites. It's listed on the Google Books site, but of course you can't preview it or purchase it digitally there because so many authors and publishers don't want Google to sell their books.
I deliberately picked a book that's written in English but uses lots of accented characters and foreign names (it's about Hungarian history), and that has photographic inserts, a bibliography, and an index. As soon as it's returned, I'll post a follow up about how well the service worked.
There are three things I realized as I clicked the button to proceed with the order, and I think they may impact how useful Blue Leaf can be for readers who want to convert their private libraries:
- It's emotionally hard to send off a physical book. I'm not a fan in any way of physical books, and yet I felt a twinge of fear as I slid my book into a padded envelope to ship to Connecticut. What if it gets lost? What if I never see it again? What if it's returned in pieces? I know it's irrational, but it's what I felt.
- I'm not sure I'm brave/foolish enough to try the service on the few books I do consider precious. I have an oral history of one of the few survivors of the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978. I would love to have a digital copy, but I'm not sure I would ever be able to willingly part with my copy. Even with postal insurance, I don't know that I'd be able to replace it if it went missing. I'll probably have to scan this by hand myself or never do it at all.
- It's just too expensive to convert an entire library. To convert the <300 page book I chose, the total cost was just under $28, not counting the extra $5 or so I'll spend on shipping supplies and fees. I'm going to end up paying about $33 for a digital copy of this book. I have another one I wanted to try, but at 400 pages it became too expensive for my test. One could argue that if you value your free time at more than a few bucks an hour, Blue Leaf still works out to be far cheaper than doing it yourself. On the other hand, you can just leave those books alone and hope that someday they'll be made available in the marketplace
Realistically speaking, unless you've got a big pile of cash, Blue Leaf is best for special editions you just have to have in digital format.
An affordable way for authors to convert their own out-of-print works! YES.
The real beauty of the service may be for authors. David Rothman on Teleread noted that Blue Leaf offers an incredibly cheap way for individual authors to convert their own out-of-print titles into digital formats.
This could be a helluva a deal for individuals and small publishers. Talk about the potential for getting back lists into E and POD!
An average book would cost someone around $30-50 to convert into a basic PDF or Word doc that you can then adapt into various ebook formats. If you're really anti-DIY, you can even pay Blue Leaf extra for them to create the device formats for you. (Note however that to get all the formats delivered on CD, plus an audio version using technology similar to Amazon's text-to-speech functionality on the Kindle, you'll be paying closer to $100.)
In fact, I hope the author of the book I've sent in for conversion takes note, and converts his book on his own for digital distribution. I'm sure services like Blue Leaf will continue to appear, and between those and various ebook retailers (yes, including Google Books), there's no reason for any author's older works to languish in "not for sell" exile.


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A young Ibis perching on a parrot bracket shakes his head and turns away, starts nodding and turns back. It's not David Attenborough, but still nice to look at. Inspired by a wind chime I saw on a fair trade market. I had to try to make something alike from waste material. So I tried my way with recycling plastic bottles.
The trick is that the head hangs on a scale and is held up by a counter weight. With each breeze the bird turns, nods its head shakes its head. Its fun!
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Safe doesn't mean bad. On the contrary, the reason safe is safe is that you can be sure that a large number people will approve of it. Stitchy, yours was the classic example: very well-chosen pieces from solid brands, tastefully coordinated. Very nice indeed, and it fully deserves its votes. All I am saying is that most people, myself included, played it safe, took only a few steps away from CM starting points. Tirailleur, who's currently in the lead, and whose outfit was predictably excellent, was just doing what he normally does. Spoo is another exception, but I'm not really counting him, because he was just wearing costume (a pretty awesome costume, but costume nevertheless). EFV actually stepped much further away from where he started and yet its something that I could still imagine wearing and can appreciate its aesthetics. That's why I would argue that he did better than any of the rest of us.
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