When Yes convened in Paris in 1979 to record the follow-up to troubled record Tormato, late producer Roy Thomas Baker found five musicians at each other’s throats. Those “pub sessions” were to spell the end of the band’s classic line-up – again – for another 16 years, while a new line-up would release Drama in 1980.
Yes’ first collaboration with Queen, Journey and The Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker took place in Paris in 1979 – but the resulting recordings never saw the light of day, although many of those tracks later appeared on solo records, expanded reissues of Yes albums, or the 2002 In A Word box set.
