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Mike Brooks

The Yes Album: When Chris Squire created one of the most recognizable bass tones in rock

The Yes Album cover

The Yes Album (1971) started a run of releases for Yes that would see them go from prog-rock underachievers to multi-million selling arena superstars. 

Now over 50 years old, at the time of its release, the band were facing the chop from Atlantic Records due to the poor performance of their first two albums, but their increasing live following meant that the album entered the charts, eventually reaching number four in the UK and number 40 in the US, before selling over a million copies in the US.

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