"Yes In The 1980s: Decades"/Stephen Lambe [Episode 44]

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich · Jan 13, 2022 · 1h 33m

When Yes ran into problems recording their tenth album in Paris at the end of 1979, it was almost the end. Yet in the 80s the band rallied, firstly as part of an unlikely collaboration with a new wave duo, then with 90125, the most successful album of their career, which spawned a number one hit in the USA with ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’. The band failed to capitalize on this success, however, lingering too long over its successor Big Generator and by the end of the decade, Yes had effectively split into two versions of the same band.

With most authors concentrating on the group’s 1970s…