Cult German TV show Beat-Club ran for seven years, from 1965 until 1972. Throughout those seven years, it did what all the best music shows did: it provided an outlet for music's best and bravest to perform – minimal lip-syncing, no apparent restraints on song length – and it annoyed the hell out of a generation of parents bewildered by the long-haired "musicians" on display.
Yes were booked to perform on the show twice. In November 1969, in what was the last episode of Beat-Club to be broadcast in black and white, they could be seen playing a cover of Richie Havens' No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed, which would show up as the opening track on their second album, Time And A Word, the following summer. They also played Survival and Looking Around Me from their debut album, although neither song was broadcast at the time.
