Max Graham vs Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Mixed by Max Graham / Ministry Of Sound

In 1983 , nearly three years after the breakup of Yes, Chris Squire and Alan White met guitarist Trevor Rabin (late of the band Rabbitt ) and formed a new group, initially dubbed Cinema , which also included original Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye . They played Jon Anderson some of their new music, and, very impressed, he decided to join the project, resulting in the reformation Yes in 1983.

The album, 90125 (produced by former vocalist Trevor Horn), was a radical departure from their earlier sound. It was simpler and harder, with modern (for the time) electronic effects. The song Owner of a Lonely Heart from this album was even a hit in discos, resulting in the band's only number one single. Fans of this line-up are called "Generators", from this line-up's second album, Big Generator . Yes had major success throughout the rest of the 1980s, playing arenas and scoring major hits with "Leave It," "Love Will Find a Way," and "It Can Happen."

By the end of the 1980s, Anderson grew tired of the new Yes sound and wanted the band to return to its classic sound. While Yes was on break after the 1988 tour, Anderson began working with former Yes members Rick Wakeman , Steve Howe , and Bill Bruford . Some in the group wanted to distance themselves from the "Yes" name that, anyway, they were contractually unable to use, as Squire, White, Kaye, Rabin (and, ironically, Anderson) held rights to it at the time, so the group called themselves " Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ", or simply ABWH. Legal battles later followed over the title of ABWH's tour and live album, An Evening of Yes Music Plus .

ABWH were working on their second album, while Yes were working on their followup to Big Generator , even though Anderson wasn't there to provide vocals. Somewhere along the line, phone calls were made and agreements struck, and Yes joined ABWH, which resulted in the album Union and a world tour which united all eight members on one stage in a short-lived "Mega-Yes". Although looking at each tracks' credits, one can see the album is clearly a combination of two camps, the tour itself featured tracks spanning the band's entire career, and it was one of the highest grossing concert tours of 1991 and 1992 .

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