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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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“Even though I go off on a tangent sometimes, I think he appreciates the melodic aspect I bring to the John Hackett Band”: Guitarist Nick Fletcher indulges himself on solo instrumental Quadrivium

Jazz rocker explores modes, plaintive tones and mysticism on his album, featuring old bandmate Dave Bainbridge

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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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“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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“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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"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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"I’ve been using Vigier guitars since 1997. One of their reps had me try them, but I didn’t want to – I’d been playing my own awful, homemade, Swiss cheese guitars!" Failed luthier Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal is busier than ever, but success isn't on his mind

The former Guns N’ Roses man discusses giving up constructing his own instruments, learning how to sing like a bassist while playing like a guitarist for Asia, and the upcoming Art of Anarchy record

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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 disc of unreleased live material truly captures the excitement of this line-up in full flight”: The Yes Album Super Deluxe Edition

Extended third LP, their first with Steve Howe, illustrates the amazing connection between musicians at the top of their game

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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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“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

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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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"It blurred all the boundaries of my musical vocabulary." - John Wetton on Surf's Up

Back in issue 48, we polled readers and musicians on their favourite prog albums. This was John Wetton's...

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“I’ve often said I’d rather be a Chet Atkins back-room guy. But I’m an opportunist, too. So, if the spotlight keeps falling on me, I’ll have to rise to the occasion”: Steve Howe reveals what it takes to mastermind a prog institution

The lifelong Yes guitarist talks wearing guitar and production hats for new record Mirror to the Sky, and how he – and audiences – have changed since 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans

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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

When Vangelis nearly joined Yes and other tales from topographic oceans…

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‘I’m the only one that can say I never quit’: meet the bands with no original members left

Fans often question their authenticity – but members of Yes, Odyssey, Soft Machine and Molly Hatchet explain why they’re keeping the flame alive despite the gripes

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I got shot down many times: ‘Oh, it’s pop. Oh, it’s bubblegum… the logo is ugly and we don’t hear a single!’” How John Wetton and Asia dialled up their debut album

The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer

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“A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

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“I thought I’d bitten off more than I can chew”: how Yes guitarist Steve Howe accidentally ended up playing on a Queen hit single

Yes guitarist Steve Howe was having lunch in Switzerland when he was roped into appearing on Queen’s 1991 single Innuendo

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“He’s making different chords underneath all this music… and singing a middle harmony at the same time!” Joe Bonamassa’s love for Chris Squire

A blues guitar icon calling a prog bassist his hero? It’s unusual, but it’s not unheard of

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Yes guitarist Steve Howe on a potential reunion with Jon Anderson: “I love Jon – but the only terms I work on is that I’m happy”

Yes’ Steve Howe addresses ex-bandmates, potential reunions and that turbulent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame appearance in the brand new issue of Classic Rock

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Steve Howe once took a chisel to a 1955 Fender Telecaster to make it more Gibson

“I can’t say I'm entirely without guilt,” the Yes man once commented. Yet the heavily modified Tele found a home on Relayer and appears on new album Mirror to the Sky

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Remembering the late Alan White

Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former John Lennon and Yes drummer Alan White, who sadly died in 2022

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