DARK SECRETS: Yes | Vintage Vibes

I Can’t Tell You But I Will by Magda Szubanski review – an insightful, elegant, anti-celebrity memoir

Szubanski’s latest book delves into both her mother’s decline, and her triumphant fight for marriage equality

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28

Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24

What the polling tells us about the future of independence across the UK

IT’S been a good couple of weeks for polling on Scottish independence.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 24

“I think the price was down to the ‘cute’ factor of being a little nine-year-old. The poor attorney took pity on me”: Hannah Wicklund on how a blues lawyer got her playing boutique guitars aged 9 – and the weapon she picked to take on Deep Purple and Yes

South Carolina’s rising blues-rocker on her expensive tastes, the “turn-off” ofgoldhardware, and why she is ready to bring out her flame-painted T-type again (despite the jibes)

Guitar World · Sep 3

The story of Roundabout by Yes and the record company interference that made it successful. "We were shocked at first, but now I think it was a gift"

Inspired by Scottish scenery and circular intersections, Roundabout helped break Yes in the US after Atlantic Records took a blade to it

Louder · Sep 2

“Snake Sabo is the master of the riff. I’ll never forget when he played me 18 and Life for the first time... We had no formula”: Skid Row’s Rachel Bolan on going solo, his ’70s inspirations, and the band’s continuing search for a new singer

Bolan looks back on the only gear he could afford when he started, his creative process, and what he learned from Gene Simmons, Paul McCartney, and Yes

Guitar World · Aug 23

“We had a good run and did some great things. That wasn’t one of them”: Abandoned songs, a broken foot and footballer-size egos destroyed a Yes album

The classic line-up fell apart after disastrous attempts to make the follow-up to Tormato in Paris, before a new line-up released Drama in 1980

Louder · Aug 22

“I don’t dislike the albums we made after that. Some of them are very good. But there was a wonderful innocence about that time”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs are mainly from the 1970s

Asked to select his five top tracks from his band’s career, he goes back in time to Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Going For The One and Drama

Louder · Aug 13

SNP ministers back calls for British Museum to return Lewis chessmen to Scotland

THE Scottish Government has backed a Yes group’s calls for the Lewis chessmen to be returned to Scotland ...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 6

“We got lost in the dark. My wife said, ‘This is a turnaround situation.’ Rather than helping with the predicament I sang, ‘Turnaround situation lately,’ and there it was!”: Yes and the endless inspiration that led to Aurora

The prog veterans’ third album in five years marks the end of one story. But as Steve Howe and Jon Davison explain, they’re not planning to close the book – and they don’t mind if some fans hate where it’s taking them

Louder · Aug 5