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"Yours Is No Disgrace" is a song by English progressive rock band Yes, which first appeared as the opening song of their 1971 album The Yes Album. It was written by all five members of the band: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye and Bill Bruford. The song has been a regular feature of Yes' live shows. [2]
The guitar melody is punctuated by a series of sudden band-harmonized vocables. Again, a crescendo signals a change, this time into a more traditional and less cacophonous melody. Like a classical composition, this melodic passage is the establishment of a theme that will go through many variations throughout the piece.
Yes guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin originally wrote the song for singer Stevie Nicks to perform; [3] however, Yes drummer Alan White encouraged Rabin to let Yes record the song instead. "Love Will Find a Way" was the fifth of six Yes singles to crack the U.S. top 40; [ 2 ] it has been featured on several of Yes' later compilations, including ...
The song originated in March 1971 when the band were on tour promoting The Yes Album (1971), travelling from Aberdeen to Glasgow after a gig in Aviemore, Scotland. [7] [8] They encountered many roundabouts on the way; Anderson claimed "maybe 40 or so", which inspired Anderson and Howe to write a song about the journey as they sat in the back of the band's transit van, and include the ...
The song is just over ten minutes in length and consists of four movements. The first and second parts of the song were released as a single edit and reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100. [4] Introducing the song live in 1972, lead vocalist Jon Anderson said Yes called it "The Protest Song" when they were making the Close to the Edge ...
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. They have undergone numerous lineup changes throughout their history; their most notable line-ups include lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, keyboardists Tony Kaye and Rick Wakeman, guitarists Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin, and drummers Bill Bruford and Alan White.
Chris Squire explained that Anderson wrote the first verse with acoustic guitar; Squire takes credit for the riff in the chorus (in the words of Steve Howe, "do-de-do-do-do") and for a section in the middle of the song. The guitar riff for the song, said Steve Howe, came from a composition by his earlier band, Bodast, and the song was rarely ...
John Frusciante, the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, has cited the guitar solo at the end as an influence for his own guitar solo on the 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Get on Top": "I was thinking about Steve Howe's solo at the end of Yes' 'Siberian Khatru'. The band sound is really big — and they're playing fast — and then this clean ...