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Reform rise sees Unionist parties shifting further to the right

THE rise of Reform has seen Unionist parties move further to the right, giving Yes parties an opportunity to put forward a different vision for…

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“A handy surrogate for anyone craving the feel of Yes’ glory days… and how did they beat Jon Anderson to the title?” The Flower Kings’ Love is a fully-achieved ambition

It’s the rebooted band’s fifth album in less than six years, but it doesn’t sound like they’re running out of ideas

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'It's needed now more than ever': Thousands march in support of Scottish independence

AROUND 5000 independence supporters marched through Glasgow on Saturday, proving the Yes movement remains strong amidst the rise of the far right…

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“I went to Genesis on Friday, bought the album on Saturday, then went to the show again on Sunday, and I knew all the words”: A glimpse into the prog world of Lifesigns’ John Young

Keyboardist on Kate Bush’s baking, Frank Zappa’s humour, Patrick Moraz’s romance, Eva Cassidy’s mystery – and buying his own band’s album from Amazon

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“The revolving stage was great fun, especially when it broke down and we got the audience to push it”: If anything mostly worked out during Yes’ Union era, it was the accompanying tour

The 1991 album remains a controversial work for many – but for most of the musicians from both sides of the Yes divide, the road trip was its saving grace

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Legendary Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78

Roy Thomas Baker worked with Queen, Free, Journey, The Cars, Yes, Ozzy Osbourne, Smashing Pumpkins and many more

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Hopes report on currency in independent Scotland will give 'definitive answer'

A REPORT commissioned to set out a comprehensive currency plan for an independent Scotland will give a “definitive answer” for Yessers, the…

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Huge double-digit lead for Yes in new Scottish independence polling

SCOTLAND would vote for independence by a significant majority were a second referendum held tomorrow, an exclusive new poll for The National has…

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SNP should drop support for 'full fiscal autonomy in UK', former Yes chair says

THE SNP Government should not pursue its support for full fiscal autonomy within the UK, the former Yes campaign chair has said ...

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“It was so inspiring to see them put animosity to one side and just go on stage to play”: Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser explains his love for Yes and Steve Howe

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser cares so deeply for Yes that his band named an album after one of the prog giants’ songs

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Ex-SNP policy chief launches Holyrood bid pledging to put 'independence first'

A FORMER senior SNP figure has launched a bid to become an MSP just nine months after losing out in the UK General Election.

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Yes groups to host litter picking events across Scotland

MORE than 30 Yes groups are taking part in a “day of action litter pick” in towns and cities across Scotland

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“With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league

Bill Bruford retired in 2009 and later sold most of his equipment to Tool’s Danny Carey. Then he found he wasn’t finished on stage – and he’s come back re-energised

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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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A rare studio recording of Yes playing a wild version of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby has surfaced online

The recording was made two months before Yes signed their deal with Atlantic Records

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"The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans

The Geoff Downes-led new lineup of Asia play the band’s first three albums, one per night, in April

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‘We joke about who’s getting their knees done’: the rock veterans still touring into their late 70s

Yoga and ice baths have replaced all-nighters, but musicians such as Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Rick Wakeman and Elkie Brooks aren’t planning to retire any time soon

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Mhairi Black: The independent Scotland I want to see will not happen via Holyrood

MHAIRI Black is smiling when she arrives for our interview. She looks happy, energetic and confident. There’s no need to ask how she’s feeling…

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“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland

He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974

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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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“People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times

The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today

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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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“Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it

The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear

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King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82

Jamie Muir, who featured on King Crimson's Lark's Tongues In Aspic before leaving to become a Buddhist monk, has died

The National (Scotland)

Pro-independence candidates urged to sign declaration ahead of Holyrood election

PRO-INDEPENDENCE candidates are being urged to sign a new declaration of agreement in a bid to unite the Yes movement ahead of the Holyrood election.

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