Jon Anderson - Vocals
Steve Howe - Guitars
Chris Squire - Bass
Billy Sherwood - Guitars
Alan White - Drums
Igor Khoroshev - Keyboards



Formed back in -68 with the first line-up Jon Andrson (vocals), Chris Squire (bass), Peter Banks (guitars), Tony Kaye (keys) and Bill Bruford (drums).One of the bands first performances was as support act for the last gig of Cream. The band was by critics in the beginning announced as the next supergroup of english rock. This was after the release of the first album, Yes. Around -71 Banks left the band to form Flash, and was replaced by Steve Howe (ex-Tomorrow). The music at this time had grown to be what we know Yes for of today. Longe pieces of music that put a big pressure on each and every member of the band musically. This style was to be called "technoflash" and Yes are still the greatest in the genre.

Soon Kaye was also on his way out of Yes to form Badger, and was replaced by the mighty Rick Wakeman (ex-The Straws). Later on Bruford too left the band just to join King Crimson, and the new drummer was Alan White, who had earlier played with Plastic Ono Band. -72 the classic Close To The Edge was released and by this time Yes had for sur grown with a reputation as a band iwth musical quality. According to critics the seventh album "Tales From Teh Topographic Ocean" was a failure and after that, Wakeman left the band to be replaced by teh swiss keyboard player Patrick Moraz. By the year of -75, the band ha a breakup and all members worked with solo projects. After this, Wakeman came back to appea on "Going For The One" and "Tomato", but only to leave the band once again after these albums. This time along with Jon Anderson. One album was recorded with two new members, Trevor Horn (vocals) and Geoff Downes (keys), both from Buggles. The albums name was "Drama" and after that the band dissolved.......

Steve Howe and Geoff Downes went on to form Asia. Horn became quite big as a producer and Anderson worked on as a solo artist, partial along with Mike Oldfield but also with the keyboard wiz from Greece, Vangelis.

-83, Yes saw itself in a new constellation with Anderson, Squire, White, Kaye and the south-african guitarist Trevor Rabin. Trevor Horn produced an album that was gonna be one of Yes most commercial profitable releases aver, "90125" with the gigantic hit song "Owner of A Lonely Heart". A live album called "9012 Live" was released, showing the 80's fashion style that Yes had stepped into.

In -91 Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe found themselves as a band on a big tour performing "Evening of Yes Music", after having released a studio album with new material back in -89. "Union" was released, and later on inn -94 so was "Talk", and album what goes both with positive and negative critic.

In -96 and -97 the two albums Keys To Ascension was released, conating both live performances of all teh classics from YES live, and some new material that showed what the future had to tell. Quite promising accoring to many. Both these albums was with Rick Wakeman oc keyboards, but after their releases he quite the band once again, and Billy Sherwood was brought in on second guitar and keys, and Igor Khoroshev as additional tour keyboardist. This new Yes released "Open Your Eyes" right after "Keys... II", and was once again a band to feed to the masses with their music.

Magnus Florin