Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

HISTORICAL FACTS: 14 - The Untold Story

“The producer was able to see through me to be like, ‘You don’t sound like you believe any of this.’ I love that psychology”: District 97’s Leslie Hunt took singing lessons before she tracked Stay For The Ending

Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford

Louder

“I thought, ‘OK, I’ll prove myself. I’m not a guy, so if I prove myself a little bit harder, then I might be noticed and taken seriously as a player’”: Nancy Wilson on the making of her acoustic masterpiece turned Instagram guitar staple

Nancy Wilson reveals Yes were a big songwriting inspiration behind 1980 acoustic classic Silver Wheels

Guitar World

“When the line-ups changed I thought it was getting a bit stale. But they reinvented themselves… what an incredible thing”: Steve Stevens has loved Yes since he was 14, and always will

Billy Idol’s guitarist discovered his mood for a lifetime when he saw the British icons at Madison Square Garden in 1974

Louder

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“We didn’t force a connection, it just happened.” Steve Howe remembers a fledgling Yes supporting Jethro Tull in America in 1971

Supporting an already-established Jethro Tull in America helped Yes in their way to star status

Louder

"I don’t think there are too many other genres of music that have fans so loyal and devoted like this..." The story of Australian prog

The rise of Australian progressive music, from its 60 roots to current day Eurovision success

Louder

“The priorities of the first Asia were to make it a success. Yet when we had it, we were so stupid it was unbelievable:” How the supergroup admitted mistakes and worked them out via their patchy Phoenix album

It was the first studio project featuring all four original members since their gradual disintegration in the 80s. And even if it wasn’t their best work, it was an essential element in moving forward

Louder

“I couldn’t listen to Genesis or Yes and feel like they were writing songs for me. It wasn’t my music! But with punk, I could understand the songs; the words mattered”: John Cooper Clarke on inspiration, addiction and being endorsed by Arctic Monkeys

“There are all sorts of technical gizmos you can get these days, but I still prefer a notebook and pencil,” says the performance poet

MusicRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Deep Purple and Yes join forces for North American tour

Deep Purple's One More Time tour will hit North America this summer, and prog legends Yes are on board

Louder

“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Louder

“When working on material we could ask, ‘What would we have done in the days of Close To The Edge?’ Maybe sometimes we didn’t ask that question enough”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs

Guitarist lists his five of the best – and explains why they’re all from the 70s

Louder

Will Tech Advances Attract More Baseball Fans?

Amid a resurgence in popularity, streamers roll out new features

TV Tech

"We get halfway through, just before the solo, and all the power goes off on stage": The night a furious Ray Davies cut a Yes set short before aiming blows and kicks at Rick Wakeman

In late 1971, Yes and The Kinks hooked up for a short run of shows in New York, but brotherly love between the bands was in short supply

Louder

“I’m happy we’ve had hits. But I do wish the record label had put out some of our challenging songs as singles”: Some only know them as ‘That Africa band,’ but how prog are Toto?

They were inspired by prog heavyweights and their records have always contained surprising depth

Louder

“I fell in love with Highway To Hell when I heard it in my dad’s pick-up truck. Bon Scott had a cheek to him”: pop superstar Rick Astley on his love of AC/DC, Slipknot, Yes and Foo Fighters

From AC/DC’s Highway To Hell to Foo Fighters’ Everlong, these are the song Rick Astley is never gonna give up

Louder

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

TV Tech

Fubo Inks Carriage Deal with YES Network

The network is launching on Fubo in time for YES’ New York Yankees Opening Day coverage

Multichannel News

Batter Up: Fubo Adds YES Network in Time for Yankees Season Opener

Streaming service will also carry Brooklyn Nets games

Louder

New four-disc box set for 'great lost Yes album' Talk due in May

Yes's 1994 album Talk will also be reissued as a limited edition double white vinyl release and on single CD

The Guardian - UK

Ulysses’ Molly Bloom to be brought to life in video at Derry festival

Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue in The Molly Films

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“You pick five interesting guys, lock them in a room together… and if they make an album without actually killing each other first, it will at least be an interesting album”: How King Crimson made Larks’ Tongues in Aspic

The 1973 release steered a new line-up into uncharted waters, resulting in a work that could only have been made by a band who were “prepared to jump off the cliff”

Louder

Jon Anderson's In The City Of Angels to get another reissue

Jon Anderson's fifth studio album, 1985's In The City Of Angels, saw him working with most of melodic rock band Toto

Louder

“People don’t realise the depth and diversity on the rest of the material. If you’re a Yes or Genesis devotee, this band should be on your radar”: Kansas’ image problem means even a future member struggled to discover them

Zak Rizvi – a driving force for the band’s two most recent albums – once thought they were a southern rock or country rock band, until he dug deeper than Carry On Wayward Son and Dust In The Wind and found their prog roots

Louder

“We’re prog rock without the solos”: Experimental sounds, non-linear arrangements and big, conceptual ideas would seem to prove Guy Garvey is right about his band Elbow

Loved by many in the prog community – less so among purists – the lead singer talks about his love of the genre and where his band fit in

Louder

Jon Anderson announces Yes: Epics, Classics and More tour: new music on the way

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks are currently putting the finishing touches on a new album

Louder

“There was just so much circus along the way. It felt like the album was cursed”: Having kids, splitting with one member, nearly splitting with another - small wonder it took Moon Safari a decade to deliver Himlabacken Vol. 2

Barely able to believe the record has finally left their hands, and often doubting it would, Swedish sextet take stock as the reactions roll in

Louder

Yes launch limited 2CD and Blu-ray edition of Mirror To The Sky

The band's Classic Tales Of Yes UK tour takes place in May and June

1 … 13 14 15 16

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.