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| Discography |
| Yes |
1969 |
| Time and a Word |
1970 |
| The Yes Album |
1971 |
| Fragile |
1971 |
| Close to the Edge |
1972 |
| Yessongs |
1973 |
| Tales from the Topographic Ocean |
1973 |
| Yesterdays |
1974 |
| Relayer |
1974 |
| Going for the One |
1977 |
| Tormato |
1978 |
| Drama |
1980 |
| Yesshows |
1980 |
| Classic Yes |
1981 |
| 90125 |
1983 |
| 9012 Live - The solos |
1983 |
| Big Generator |
1987 |
| Union |
1991 |
| Yes Years (box set) |
1991 |
| Yesstory |
1992 |
| Highlights: The very best of |
1993 |
| Talk |
1994 |
| Keys to Ascension |
1996 |
| Keys to Ascension II |
1997 |
| Open Your Eyes |
1998 |
| Friends & Relatives |
1998 |
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| YES |
| Written by Magnus Florin |
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Jon Anderson - Vocals
Steve Howe - Guitars
Chris Squire - Bass
Billy Sherwood - Guitars
Alan White - Drums
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Formed back in -68 with the first line-up Jon Anderson (vocals), Chris Squire
(bass), Peter Banks (guitars), Tony Kaye (keys) and Bill Bruford (drums).One
of the bands first performances was as support act for the last gig of
Cream. The band was by critics in the beginning announced as the next
supergroup of English rock. This was after the release of the first album,
Yes. Around -71 Banks left the band to form Flash, and was replaced by Steve
Howe (ex-Tomorrow). The music at this time had grown to be what we know Yes
for of today. Longe pieces of music that put a big pressure on each and
every member of the band musically. This style was to be called
"Technoflash" and Yes are still the greatest in the genre.
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Soon Kaye was also on his way out of Yes to form Badger, and was replaced by
the mighty Rick Wakeman (ex-The Straws). Later on Bruford too left the band
just to join King Crimson, and the new drummer was Alan White, who had
earlier played with Plastic Ono Band. -72 the classic Close To The Edge was
released and by this time Yes had for sure grown with a reputation as a band
with musical quality. According to critics the seventh album "Tales From The
Topographic Ocean" was a failure and after that, Wakeman left the band to be
replaced by the Swiss keyboard player Patrick Moraz. By the year of -75, the
band had a breakup and all members worked with solo projects. After this,
Wakeman came back to appeared on "Going For The One" and "Tomato", but only to
leave the band once again after these albums. This time along with Jon
Anderson. One album was recorded with two new members, Trevor Horn (vocals)
and Geoff Downes (keys), both from Buggles. The albums name was "Drama" and
after that the band dissolved.
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Steve Howe and Geoff Downes went on to form Asia. Horn became quite big as a
producer and Anderson worked on as a solo artist, partial along with Mike
Oldfield but also with the keyboard whiz from Greece, Vangelis.
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-83, Yes saw itself in a new constellation with Anderson, Squire, White,
Kaye and the South-African guitarist Trevor Rabin. Trevor Horn produced an
album that was going be one of Yes most commercial profitable releases ever,
"90125" with the gigantic hit song "Owner of A Lonely Heart". A live album
called "9012 Live" was released, showing the 80's fashion style that Yes had
stepped into.
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In -91 Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe found themselves as a band on a big
tour performing "Evening of Yes Music", after having released a studio album
with new material back in -89. "Union" was released, and later on inn -94 so
was "Talk", and album what goes both with positive and negative critic.
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In -96 and -97 the two albums Keys To Ascension was released, containing both
live performances of all the classics from YES live, and some new material
that showed what the future had to tell. Quite promising according to many.
Both these albums was with Rick Wakeman on keyboards, but after their
releases he quite the band once again, and Billy Sherwood was brought in on
second guitar and keys, and Igor Khoroshev as additional tour keyboardist.
This new Yes released "Open Your Eyes" right after "Keys... II", and was
once again a band to feed to the masses with their music.
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