“You never go into a studio thinking I’m going to make a really bad record,” said Yes singer Jon Anderson in 2012, speaking to Classic Rock. “You always go in thinking you’re going to make the best record you could ever make,”
The second half of the 70s, for Yes, delivered what some consider to be their best record and what many consider to be among their worst. Plus, of course, the customary twists and turns concerning personnel, direction and morale. They went for – and arguably landed – “the one”, Tomatoes were thrown, metaphorically and literally, before they closed the decade with a split, a reboot and a drummer breaking his foot on roller-skates.
