Chris Squire During An Interview (1976) Photo Provided By: Koh Hasebe Photographer: Unknown

Tony Kaye photographed in Circa 1971 Photographer: Michael Putland

Happy birthday to the extraordinary Chris Squire!!!

Image Credits: Orlando Henriques

Happy 41st anniversary to 90125 by Yes!!!

Happy 71st birthday to guitar genius Alex Lifeson!!!

Credits Photo 1: Kevin Carter & Joe Pesch Photos 2 & 4: Mark's Rock Concert Photography Photo 3: John Allison

Jon Anderson (1978) Photo by: Dorian Boese

Gowan (Feat. Jon Anderson) - Moonlight Desires Slight Photosensitive/Epilepsy waring at the start!!! Source Link to song

Jon Anderson photographed at a concert in 1977 Photography by: Rob Verhorst

im so frequent to rant but its a little different now, so hehe, enjoy my lovely and delirious personal essay breaking down going for the one by yes [1977] song by song :>

for some background, this was when the band were tax exiles in switzerland [not the first time iirc but thats a different story] and what makes it funnier is that they recorded in the same studio as emerson, lake and palmer [who were working overtime on works], [they [elp] moved to another rehearsal space for a few weeks].

this was also the return of rick wakeman after his previous departure from the band after tales of topographic oceans; and he was surprised to see how much the band had changed over the time he had left. patrick moraz was let go; jon thought “[moraz] just wasn’t playing like he was involved”, that his sound wasn’t on par with the rest of the band’s, “and that affected his vibe…” [basically he was let go because he didn’t pass the vibe check]

also i do have to add that their original sound mixer [who i won’t name] left to work with other bands because he believed the the band’s style became ‘a bit stale’. which uh. they probably proved him wrong because gfto is peak and who ever mixed this album a raise [there were several heated arguments about the use of echo on the album, but thats not what im talking about rn]

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