Artist Roger Dean’s otherworldly visions have become synonymous with Yes – but his career to date includes many other collaborations. In 2020 he told Prog the stories behind some of his most iconic album covers, and revealed which of them Steve Howe has on his living room wall.
A young boy is climbing a steep hill at night. Carefully, he makes his way through the tangles of sparse scrub that cling to the side of Lion Rock; from his vantage point he can see Kowloon spread before him, the name of which comes from the term for nine dragons. Immediately below, the very last house of the accommodation reserved for British army personnel in Hong Kong – where he lives with his parents – huddles into the mane of Lion Rock. Beneath his feet time stands still, the passing of millions of years solidified in granite. Above him, a scattering of distant stars wink through the pearlescent glow of a moonlit night.
