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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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Oasis confirm reunion tour documentary film produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight

After much speculation, Oasis have confirmed a documentary film in conjunction with their reunion tour.

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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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"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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"I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed, up and out tomorrow": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened

"It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

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Who will be playing in Oasis next summer? Your essential guide to who might be joining Noel and Liam onstage in 2025

From Bonehead to Andy Bell and Guigsy to Gem, your essential guide to the contenders to join the Oasis Live '25 bandwagon

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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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“It has a reputation for being a big, dumb, four-chord song, but there’s more going on than I expected”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Oasis’s Wonderwall

As the Gallaghers reunite for the Oasis Live '25 tour, we put Wonderwall under the musical microscope and explore how the song became a standard for beginner guitarists

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Oasis tickets: Further chance for fans to see Gallaghers with world tour dates to be announced

Band set to anounce dates for North and South America

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Former Oasis drummer Alan White teases photo of Don’t Look Back in Anger bass drum head ahead of Oasis reunion

Meanwhile, original drummer Tony McCarroll says, "To be honest, I'm not holding my breath"

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“I played it to Jon Anderson and his son. They were both crying – which was either a huge compliment or a disaster!” Trevor Rabin and Jon Anderson unlock the secrets of Yes's overlooked Talk

30 years on, band members reflect on their last LP with Rabin and Tony Kaye, giving the overlooked masterpiece the re-evaluation it deserves.

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The drummers of Oasis: if the reunion rumours are true, these are the favourites to play drums

From the founding member who tried to sue Oasis, to the son of a Beatle, these are the drummers who provided the Gallaghers' groove

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“When the mood took them, the prog legends of the 70s could write simple but catchy music with aplomb”: The 40 greatest Yes songs ever

When 50,000 Prog magazine readers voted on the band’s catalogue, the resulting chart contained a few surprises

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"My girlfriend had to leave the room when I played the album": The 10 records that changed Fish's life

Former Marillion frontman Fish takes a trip to the past to explore the records that shaped his path through music

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“I used to wake the engineer up to try again; he went home because it was driving him crazy. And I was angry because I didn’t know how to stop trying”: Jon Anderson recalls the “state of madness” that gave us Olias Of Sunhillow

Yes singer pushed far beyond his comfort zone for 1976 debut solo record, and when it was finished the world – and his bandmates – seemed underwhelmed. Was it worth the effort?

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Revival 69: John & Yoko save a festival

Ron Chapman's film examines the Toronto concert where Lennon performed before announcing the Beatles' disbandment

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The other 1969 concert that changed music: ‘one of the most important stories in rock history’

Revival69 glimpses into starry Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which gave Beatles fans a new look at John Lennon

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“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

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“Those who have heard it suggest it may not be the lost classic its reputation implies”: Six songs that didn’t make Yes’ 90125 tracklist

Starting out as Cinema before resuming their established name, the band spent 18 months developing the album that saved them. Inevitably, not every track made the final cut

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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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Prog's ultimate Christmas Tracks Of The Week

It's your chance to choose your favourite prog Christmas song in this week's seasonal poll

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"Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened

Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

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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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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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“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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