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Jon Anderson (born John Roy Anderson, 25 October 1944) [n 1] is an English singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he formed in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire.
In 1997, he served as the best man at Jon Anderson's wedding. [18] White died at his home in Newcastle, Washington, on 26 May 2022, aged 72, following a brief illness. [20] [38] [46] It had been announced four days earlier that he would be absent from the Close to the Edge 50th anniversary tour due to health issues. [47]
Yes promoted the album with a video release of "We Can Fly" and worldwide tours in 2011 and 2012, during which David was replaced by singer Jon Davison after he contracted respiratory illness. An alternative version of the album titled Fly from Here – Return Trip , featuring new lead vocals and mixing from Horn and instrumental parts, was ...
Guitarist Steve Howe, singer Jon Anderson, and drummer Bill Bruford playing with Yes at London’s Rainbow Theatre on Jan. 14, 1972. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
The setlist will contain numerous Yes songs from all stages of the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career. Yes, prog-rock legend Jon Anderson is headed our way with his Band of Geeks Skip to ...
Main articles: List of Yes concert tours (1960s–70s), List of Yes concert tours (2000s–10s), and List of Yes concert tours (2020s) The English progressive rock band Yes has toured for five decades. The band played live from its creation in Summer 1968. Their first overseas shows were in Belgium and the Netherlands in June 1969. They played regularly through December 1980, with the band ...
Meanwhile, Squire encountered Jon Anderson (who, since leaving Yes, had released two solo albums and had success with the Jon and Vangelis project) at a Los Angeles party and played him the Cinema demo tracks. Anderson was invited into the project as lead singer and joined in April 1983 during the last few weeks of the sessions, having ...
However, the tour was postponed due to the illness of Yes singer Jon Anderson. A revamped In the Present Tour featuring Steve Howe , Chris Squire and Alan White of Yes plus Oliver Wakeman and Canadian singer Benoît David (filling in for Anderson) began in the fall of 2008 (under the moniker "Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White of Yes ...