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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

Guitar World

“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

Guitar World

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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Yes "growing again", says Steve Howe, as band release video for Circles Of Time

Prog legends Yes have just released their 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky

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The Yes Album: When Chris Squire created one of the most recognizable bass tones in rock

The Lowlist – celebrating longplayers with low-end – doffs its cap to Chris Squire

Guitar World

Asia's "reunion" album Phoenix to be reissued as lavish double vinyl set

Asia's classic line-up – including John Wetton and Steve Howe – originally released Phoenix in 2008

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Yes: a strong start and a lacklustre finish on 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky

Mirror To The Sky is a new set of Yes songs to expand a discography that may go on forever

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Psychedelic projections, a spinning mannequin head and the music of the future: Is this peak Yes?

Watch Yes perform Yours Is No Disgrace and I've Seen All Good People on cult German TV show Beat-Club in 1971

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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Album Of The Week Club review

The self-titled Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the album from the version of Yes that wasn’t technically Yes at all

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Tomorrow share brand new video for psychedelic classic My Whte Bicycle

Tomorrow's 1968 debut album has been reimagined by guitarist Steve Howe as Permanent Dream

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Martin Taylor: “There are some guitars I play a few notes on and just put down. The sign of a good guitar is one you really want to play and don’t want to put down”

The jazz maestro recounts the tale of a disappointment with a Gibson ES-175 and his surprise over a freebie vintage Martin

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Ex-Yes vocalist Jon Anderson says his former bandmate Chris Squire visited him in a dream after his death, en route to Heaven: "It was an incredible moment"

Jon Anderson says that he and his estranged former Yes bandmate Chris Squire reconciled, in a way, after Squire's passing

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Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering"

Jon Anderson discusses the genesis of his 2019 solo album, 1000 Hands: Chapter One, which was nearly 30 years in the making

Guitar World

Bruce Kulick names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The hard-rock guitar slinger names the unlikely influences behind a number of his best-known Kiss riffs, and the player he likens to "a race car champion with the soul of a great blues musician"

Manchester Evening News

Husband of Manchester Arena attack victim brands public inquiry a 'complete waste of time'

Steve Howe, whose wife Alison was killed in the atrocity, says he 'feels worse now than the day after it happened'

Birmingham Post

North East deals of the week: key acquisitions, contracts and investments

Companies featuring in this week's round-up include Port of Blyth, Wack Wholesale, Brownlee Cale and TechnipFMC

Birmingham Post

Phoenix Security in Newcastle acquired by Yorkshire rival Professional Security

The deal creates a firm with a combined workforce of over 10,000 frontline personnel

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