Yes
Owner of a lonely heart
Yes
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Yes
are an English rock band formed in 1968 by bassist Chris Squire and
singer Jon Anderson.
Yes first achieved success in the 1970s with a 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. Nine of
their twenty studio albums have reached the top ten in either
the UK or US, with two reaching number one in the UK. They have sold
13.5 million certified units in the US. 19 people in total have been
a part of the band's line-up, including Swiss, South African,
American, Russian, and Canadian members. The band's most recent
line-up consists of singer Jon Davison, guitarist Steve Howe, bass
guitarist Billy Sherwood, keyboardist Geoff Downes, and drummer Alan
White.
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 lineup.
The
1970s saw Yes release the albums 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 rise of
punk rock,
Anderson and Wakeman left in 1980; Squire, Howe and White recorded
Drama with Downes and new vocalist Trevor Horn, both also members of
The Buggles. Yes disbanded in 1981, 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 1996 and 2004, including both 30th and 35th anniversary shows, also releasing the albums Keys to Ascension (1996), Keys to Ascension 2 (1997), 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. The band's twenty-first studio
album Heaven & Earth, their first album with Davison, was
released in July 2014. On 19 May 2015, Yes announced that due
to
leukemia, Squire was taking a leave from the band - for the first
time in its history, with Sherwood, a former member as guitarist from
1997 to 2000, announced as his temporary replacement. Since Squire's
death on 27 June 2015, Yes no longer features any original
members.
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