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"I still think I’m part of Yes": Jon Anderson teases the possibility of a reunion with former Yes bandmates Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman

Jon Anderson suggests that the door may be open for playing again with some old friends

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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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"We would go out and he really never wanted anybody to know that he was a musician": The troubled life and lonely death of Peter Banks, the man once called "the architect of prog"

Guitarist Peter Banks gave Yes their name, designed their logo, and played on their first two albums – yet when he died, there was no money for his funeral

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“By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII

His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes

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How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?

In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men

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“S for Saga, S for Saxon and it landed on Six By Six. Also, we have six arms, six legs, six eyes and and so on...” Welcome to the world of new prog supergroup Six By Six

In 2022 the surprise grouping of Robert Berry, Saga's Ian Crichton and Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler resulted in a fine melodic prog album

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"For me, the challenge in doing this long-form concept is for people to not tune out." How Perfect Beings made their fnal album Vier

US prog rockers Perfect Beings created an epic conceptual affair for their third album, Vier. Sadly, it owuld prove to be the band's final offering

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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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What did the SNP say about Scottish independence at the party's election launch?

HUMZA Yousaf launched the SNP’s General Election campaign to a packed room of supporters this week, making the case that for independence to…

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Humza Yousaf urges independence supporters to reject Labour's bid to win them round

HUMZA Yousaf has urged pro-independence voters to reject Anas Sarwar’s bid to secure their votes at the next General Election.

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“Polyrhythms, unusual sounds from didgeridoos to sitars, bizarre song structures, people singing backwards… It’s prog with loops and breakbeats”: Orbital’s Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)

By combining a wide range of genres in a melting pot of musical structures, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll were closer to Gong, Genesis and Yes than acid house

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YES and MSG Form Streaming Joint Venture

The Gotham Advanced Media and Entertainment (GAME) joint venture will offer turn-key digital content distribution services

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YES Network and MSG Launch Streaming JV, Gotham Advanced Media and Entertainment

Having each ramped up to take their respective RSNs over the top, YES and MSG look to combine their resources to form a new revenue stream

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"I was 12 when I heard Roundabout by Yes, and it floored me immediately!" Hasse Froberg's own musical companions

Camel makes life easy, he can't get enough of Todd Rundgren and Yes continue to blow him away! Welcome to Hasse Forgerg's prog world!

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“This is tightrope-walking without a net… it feels a bit like having him play a solo up close and personal, and who – other than certain former members of Yes, perhaps – wouldn’t want that?” Steve Howe’s Motif Volume 2

15 years after the first instalment, the guitarist bares the bones of his writing and proves those bones are strong

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Independence Minister Jamie Hepburn's five wishes for Yes movement in 2024

MSP Jamie Hepburn was appointed as Scotland’s first minister for independence in April last year

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‘It can be the year of progress’: Five wishes for Yes in 2024 from Common Weal

COMMON Weal has continued to create a narrative with publications and its policy podcast, as well as the recent release of its new book Direction.

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Humza Yousaf: Decade since 2014 a ‘hard lesson’ of Scotland not being independent

HUMZA Yousaf has called for Yes supporters to “rededicate” to the campaign, with the past ten years a “hard lesson” of Scotland not being…

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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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We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

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"Bands like Yes would spend six months doing an album, but in that time we'd do two albums and three tours": How Nazareth recorded Miss Misery

Inspired by another band’s classic track, Nazareth nailed the vibe they were striving for and ended up with a fan favourite – although their manager wasn’t too impressed with the vocals

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“Genesis was the key to everything really, and also Yes." How Tin Spirits made second album Scorch

The story of the criminally short-loved Swindon prog quartet Tin Spirits' second album, 2014's Scorch

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“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

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“We hit play, and the opening chords of Yes’ Rhythm Of Love sounded exactly like the beginning of the first song on my album. I thought we’d stuck in the wrong tape!” Jason Becker loves Trevor Rabin’s work

Former David Lee Roth guitarist and soundtrack composer learned a lot from Steve Howe, but prefers Rabin’s melodic and emotional output in and out of Yes

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Yes supporters should sit in House of Lords, former chief strategist says

YES supporters should take seats in the House of Lords in order to create “ambassadors for independence in the institutional heart of the UK”,…

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