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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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“Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it

The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear

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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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Pro-independence candidates urged to sign declaration ahead of Holyrood election

PRO-INDEPENDENCE candidates are being urged to sign a new declaration of agreement in a bid to unite the Yes movement ahead of the Holyrood election.

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“She grew up in Russia and bootlegged banned Deep Purple and Scorpions albums. It’s one of the reason I married her”: Kansas’ Joe Deninzon left the USSR and built a musical world out of a surprising coincidence

Violinist discovered MTV and never looked back thanks to the influence of Yes, Rush, Zappa – and the band he’d later join

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“A classic style of hopeful, melancholy which will pleasantly trigger Moody Blues fans”: John Lodge’s Love Conquers All EP

Yes’ Jon Davison is among the guests as bassist/singer limbers up for a return to the road after suffering a stroke

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Nearly 900 Texas children are waitlisted for a mental health program billed as an alternative to foster care

Despite a long waitlist, the number of children served in the YES Waiver program has declined because of provider shortages.

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“Their own songs, freed from the dated sonics of their recorded counterparts, benefit most from the live treatment”: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s An Evening Of Yes Music Plus returns in 4-disc set

Sound and vision elements of 1989 pay-per-ew show brought together in clamshell

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"The sound does not do the band justice": The Yes soap opera reruns on Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe's live An Evening Of Yes Music Plus

Yes, no Squire

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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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Independence cafe to meet in Scottish town as new members join through app

A NEW Scottish independence cafe is set to meet in Prestwick tomorrow.

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"Chris Squire asked me to join Yes. I was extremely flattered." Astonishing revelations from Steve Hackett when we interviewed him about 2019's At The Edge Of Light

There were revelations galore about Steve Hackett's twenty-fifth studio album At The Edge Of Light

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“I got a phone call asking me for a quote about Lennon. Apparently I was one of the last musicians seen talking to him before his death”: Rick Wakeman’s wild tales of John Lennon, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Ozzy Osbourne

Playing with Bowie and Sabbath,. boozing with Keith Moon, hanging out with Lennon – Rick Wakeman has done it all

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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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Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way

New version of Close To The Edge features Steven Wilson mixes and entire London Rainbow show from December 1972

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“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

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“They said, ‘Uh, okay!’ They didn’t know what I was talking about – and in a way, neither did I”: How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an all-star album with all the humanity of classic Star Trek

Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others

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“A lot of bands were bigger than us, but few can claim to have sucha diverse catalogue of music… I know it’s all been worthwhile”: Gryphon’s Dave Oberlé looks back

He’s worked with Steve Howe, Wire and Gandalf’s Fist, and even on a metal magazine – but it’s the quirkiness and curiosity of his own band that makes the singer and percussionist most proud

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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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“Andrew Loog Oldham asked if we were songwriters. I said we were – then I had to go away and figure out how you wrote songs”: The Nice helped found prog and merged classical music with rock, then they were gone

Prompted by a disagreement that spilled into the public domain, co-founders Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson once visited the Prog office to set things straight

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What Farage-Musk split means for Scottish independence

NIGEL Farage and Elon Musk’s relationship has begun to splinter following a public disagreement over the imprisonment of far-right thug Tommy…

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“We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs

Prog veteran recalls connecting with Sandy Denny, his band’s attempt to fire him, being loved by Led Zeppelin, why they’ve never had a Steven Wilson remix, the “albatross” of Part Of The Union and the unreleased, more political version

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"It's unlikely that I'll ever listen to any other Asia albums but only time will tell": Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album

Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success

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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!

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