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“We’re starting to turn down gigs, which isn’t something we’ve ever been able to do before." How Mystery came of age with Lies & Butterflies

Four years since the arrival of vocalist Jean Pageau and three years after Delusion Rain, Canadian proggers Mystery return with their most accomplished album yet.

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“Asked if Going For The One was about God, spirituality or the oneness of all people, he said no – it was about putting a tenner on a horse race. You’re almost better off not knowing that!” Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson

The Marillion man was so moved by the experience of hearing Yes for the first time that he wrote a song about it

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“We both understood from the beginning that this was a journey into long-form music. It’s time for this kind of music again. It elevates you”: How Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt made Invention Of Knowledge

The former Yes vocalist and the Flower Kings leader spent two years creating and fine-tuning a record designed to be an in-depth experience – and surprised even themselves

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We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

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“You wonder if any other drummer could have glued together all the impulses and influences at play”: Alan White’s 10 best performances with Yes

He secured a place in music history with other artists – but he’s best remembered for covering an extraordinary breadth of styles with the ever-changing prog giants

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“There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads

The arrival of Rick Wakeman, the freedom to be adventurous and the discovery of Roger Dean led to the creation of a prog landmark in 1971

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“A handy surrogate for anyone craving the feel of Yes’ glory days… and how did they beat Jon Anderson to the title?” The Flower Kings’ Love is a fully-achieved ambition

It’s the rebooted band’s fifth album in less than six years, but it doesn’t sound like they’re running out of ideas

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“The revolving stage was great fun, especially when it broke down and we got the audience to push it”: If anything mostly worked out during Yes’ Union era, it was the accompanying tour

The 1991 album remains a controversial work for many – but for most of the musicians from both sides of the Yes divide, the road trip was its saving grace

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“Musicians can get upset with each other, but you’re family. Chris Squire and I were like brothers – he was Darth Vader and I was Obi-Wan Kenobi!” Jon Anderson’s time-travelling solo album 1000 Hands

In 2019 he reincarnated 30-year-old demos with former Yes bandmates and a stellar supporting cast, offering positive and long-held opinions to a rapidly-changing world

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“Has his voice withstood the test of time? The answer is an emphatic yes”: Jon Anderson effortlessly recreates the best of Yes on new album Live – Perpetual Change

Looking for a hit of classic Yes in 2025? Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks deliver it on new album Live – Perpetual Change

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“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland

He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974

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“It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip

If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks

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“People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times

The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today

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"I could have said a few words if Rick Wakeman would have shut up": Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's tumultuous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Bill Bruford looks back on a famously fractious evening

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King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82

Jamie Muir, who featured on King Crimson's Lark's Tongues In Aspic before leaving to become a Buddhist monk, has died

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Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks release stunning live version of Yes classic Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People

Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People comes from the upcoming live album Live - Perpetual Change

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“He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson

The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

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Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce further US tour dates for April and May

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks extend their Yes Epics, Classics and More tour throughout Spring

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We celebrate 50 years of Yes's Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Marillion, Clannad, Pavlov's Dog, Klone, Swallow The Sun, Dilemma and more

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“We were pot-smoking hippies and Rick Wakeman was a pub guy. The angle twisted and we went off in a new direction”: The epic story of Yes and the three albums that changed the course of music

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“He said he reflected the craziness around him – he’d see other people go nuts and write about that”: Frank Zappa’s talent for using popular music to sell unpopular music, by people who helped him

Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Mike Keneally and Don Preston discuss dealing with the filthy freak’s genius up close – and what you’re missing if you haven’t investigated his catalogue

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Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce live album of classic-era Yes songs

Live - Perpetual Change will be released in March

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“Vangelis was always going to play off the cuff – which would have been wonderful, but we’re not a jazz group!” How Yes struggled to move on without Rick Wakeman then scored a victory with Relayer, in their own words

The band suffered a few false starts before delivering a triumph with a daring album that explored a new kind of energy

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“He soars, swoops and divebombs his bandmates… two of whom quit shortly after”: 10 of Chris Squire’s mightiest musical moments

The Yes powerhouse bassist had a unique talent for knowing where to be among a relentless band of virtuosos

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“I had a wake-up moment with Jon Anderson – ’It can be this great, so why am I in a band with people who just wait for the pay cheque?” Roine Stolt slashed the average age of The Flower Kings before making Waiting For Miracles

Tired of people who “put a lid on the joy” of music, a line-up change presented a fresh front with younger energy on their 2019 double album

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