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“We booked a studio and said, ‘Whoever’s here on Monday morning is in Yes’”: How the band regenerated to make Drama, in their own words

Rick Wakeman recalls quitting with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe recalls hoping they’d return, and Trevor Horn recalls being dragged into the line-up that bounced back in 1980

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“It’s the silliest name since Genesis did a track called Squonk. But The Beatles is a silly name, if you think about it”: The world according to Squackett, prog’s great forgotten supergroup

Late Yes bassist Chris Squire, ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, some old Led Zeppelin and pints of vodka – this was one-off prog supergroup Squackett

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“It’s like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. We can’t live with each other and we can’t live without each other”: the tangled history of Rick Wakeman and Yes

Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s history with Yes goes back to the early 70s – but there have been plenty of bumps along the way

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“When the mood took them, the prog legends of the 70s could write simple but catchy music with aplomb”: The 40 greatest Yes songs ever

When 50,000 Prog magazine readers voted on the band’s catalogue, the resulting chart contained a few surprises

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"My girlfriend had to leave the room when I played the album": The 10 records that changed Fish's life

Former Marillion frontman Fish takes a trip to the past to explore the records that shaped his path through music

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“I used to wake the engineer up to try again; he went home because it was driving him crazy. And I was angry because I didn’t know how to stop trying”: Jon Anderson recalls the “state of madness” that gave us Olias Of Sunhillow

Yes singer pushed far beyond his comfort zone for 1976 debut solo record, and when it was finished the world – and his bandmates – seemed underwhelmed. Was it worth the effort?

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“When I first visited the Rickenbacker factory, I thought I was going to get a hero's welcome. But they were like, ‘Come take a look at our repair room’”: Why Chris Squire’s relationship with Rickenbacker got off to a rocky start

Chris Squire's Rickenbacker underwent several changes over the years, the most radical coming when he rewired the single-output bass with stereo outputs

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“Superbly-executed powerful songs with enjoyable instrumental showboating… it’s a shame they never toured”: Squackett’s A Life Within A Day reissue

The 2012 prog titans’ collab re-emerges with 5.1 Blu-ray surround mix included

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“Perpetually overlooked… the right album at the wrong time. It’s fascinating to hear Jon Anderson’s voice sounding rather throaty and, well, dirty”: Yes’ Talk 30th Anniversary edition

An untitled Trevor Rabin instrumental and an incredible 10-minute demo of Endless Dream crown the bonus elements of the 1994 ‘Yes West’ record

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“I wanted to be XTC or Talking Heads… the Haircut One Hundred album had Genesis at its heart, and Chris Squire got me into bass”: Nick Heyward’s passion for prog

Singer-songwriter recalls feeling like he was reading a book when he discovered A Trick Of The Tail, and that’s why his solo work has become more progressive over the years

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“Possibly the nearest Tillison has ever come to prog metal, with a punchy bass riff that could be a Drama-era Chris Squire outtake”: The Tangent’s To Follow Polaris

A completely solo work from beginning to end, 13th outing is an experiment that’s resulted in astounding triumph

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“When the line-ups changed I thought it was getting a bit stale. But they reinvented themselves… what an incredible thing”: Steve Stevens has loved Yes since he was 14, and always will

Billy Idol’s guitarist discovered his mood for a lifetime when he saw the British icons at Madison Square Garden in 1974

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“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

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"We get halfway through, just before the solo, and all the power goes off on stage": The night a furious Ray Davies cut a Yes set short before aiming blows and kicks at Rick Wakeman

In late 1971, Yes and The Kinks hooked up for a short run of shows in New York, but brotherly love between the bands was in short supply

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“I just knew Trevor Horn as a pop producer. When he turned up with a guitar, I said, ‘Is that a prop, or are you going to use it?’ We just didn’t hit it off”: How Yes’ 90125 became a triumph – despite starting with “the worst jam in history”

After Drama resulted in the band’s complete collapse, a massive revamp seemed the only hope for any kind of future. But that epic challenge resulted in an equally epic album

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"I could sense the end was near": Yes bassist Billy Sherwood recalls his "heartbreaking" final conversations with his hero Chris Squire

"We started talking all the time...The conversations got deeper and heavier"

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“To play music, you have to understand it. I didn’t understand Topographic Oceans. That’s why I hardly played on it": Rick Wakeman and Yes - firings, hirings, curry, catastrophe and chaos

Best of 2023: When Vangelis nearly joined Yes and other tales from topographic oceans…

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"I was torn between Ozzy and Genesis - what the hell do I do?": A story of "the next Black Sabbath", missed opportunities and vanished dreams

Necromandus were earmarked as the next Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath themselves - but their dreams were not fulfilled

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Prog's ultimate Christmas Tracks Of The Week

It's your chance to choose your favourite prog Christmas song in this week's seasonal poll

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“As hard as it was, and it was hard, nobody wanted to bottle out. We just knew we had a big landscape we could explore”: How Tales From Topographic Oceans became the most arduous project in Yes’ history

Used as a byword for musical over-indulgence, 1973 album fought its creators every step of the way – right down to its master tapes nearly being crushed by a bus

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“The guitar is such an interesting instrument; it can be a sound palette, create harmonies and be presented in endless ways”: Trevor Rabin breaks down the tales and tools behind some of his greatest guitar highlights

The six-string wizard (and songwriter) behind Owner of a Lonely Heart shares the stories behind six classic Yes tracks and six tracks from his masterful new album, Rio

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"Chris Squire was amazing, I was lucky enough to know him through the bass player world." Tal Wilkenfeld's world of music

The bassist has played with and dazzled rock and prog greats from The Who to Chick Corea, and her solo work is just as impressive as her musical CV.

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I was pretty much ordered to go and play with Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and John Wetton. I was told that if I didn’t, I’d be dropped”: Trevor Rabin’s challenging road to Yes

From a dalliance with NWOBHM and Asia to sudden career jumps across the ocean, he’s always been far more interesting and varied than many realise

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“The world of music was going through some serious changes and we were not embracing them”: how Yes’s Going For The One and Tormato almost ended things for good

Punk rock, flying fruit and rollerskating accidents – how Yes went from triumph to disaster at the end of the 1970s

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“There’s a tendency for people to cherry-pick tracks or create playlists… we prefer our music to be listened to from the opening track to the final notes”: Downes Braide Association on the album as art form

Geoff Downes and Chris Braide argue the case for storytelling, collaborating, and carrying on the legacies of John Wetton, Greg Lake, Chris Squire and Keith Emerson

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