Origins. The club was established by Harold Pendleton, an accountant whose love of jazz had led him to become secretary of the National Jazz Federation. Originally it was located in the Marquee Ballroom in the basement of the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street, where dances had been held since the early 1950s.Its decor was designed by Angus McBean with a striped canopy to …

Christopher Russell Edward Squire dit Chris, né le 4 mars 1948 à Londres et mort le 28 juin 2015 (à 67 ans) à Phoenix (États-Unis), est un musicien (bassiste, guitariste, pianiste et harmoniciste) et auteur-compositeur-interprète britannique.En plus de jouer de la basse, il participe aux chœurs et aux compositions jusqu'à peu avant sa mort au sein du groupe de rock progressif Yes dont ...

Jon Davison (born January 16, 1971) is an American singer, musician and songwriter who has been the lead vocalist of progressive rock band Yes since 2012.. He is also known as the former lead singer of progressive rock band Glass Hammer from 2009 to 2014, and the former bass guitarist of Sky Cries Mary from 1993 to 2016, in which he was credited under his nickname of …

Storia La prima era (1968–1981) Gli esordi (1968–1971) Gli Yes nascono a Londra nei primi giorni di giugno del 1968, il periodo nel quale Jon Anderson conosce fortuitamente Chris Squire.Anderson lavorava in un bar che era posto proprio sopra al famoso Marquee Club; Jack Barry, il gestore del bar, presentò Squire ad Anderson.Quest'ultimo aveva già cantato per …

GTR were a British supergroup rock band founded in 1985 by former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.Though the band's leaders were known as progressive rock musicians, GTR appealed to album-oriented rock radio stations. The band lasted for two years and one album. Hackett subsequently criticized the project, though not …

The five agreed to drop the name Mabel Greer's Toyshop; they settled on the name Yes, originally Banks's idea. The band played their first show as Yes at a youth camp in East Mersea, Essex on 4 August 1968. Squire spoke about the band's formation: "I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style. They wanted me to play ...

Open Your Eyes is the seventeenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released in November 1997 by Eagle Records in the UK and by Beyond Music in the US. Following the departure of keyboardist Rick Wakeman and the addition of guitarist, keyboardist, and producer Billy Sherwood in 1997, Sherwood and bassist Chris Squire started to develop songs for an …

Die Wurzeln von Yes liegen in der britischen Psychedelic-Rock-Band Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, die 1966 gegründet wurde. 1967 traten Chris Squire (Bass) und Peter Banks (Gitarre) der Band bei, nachdem ihre eigene Gruppe The Syn sich aufgelöst hatte. Anfang 1968 trafen sich Jon Anderson und Chris Squire im Londoner La Chasse Club; auch Anderson ...

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Yes is the debut studio album by English rock band Yes, released on 25 July 1969 by Atlantic Records.After forming in the summer of 1968, the band toured extensively across the United Kingdom with sets comprising both original material and rearranged cover versions.They signed with Atlantic in March 1969, and entered Advision and Trident Studios in London to record their …