Having been a founding member of Yes in 1968, Chris Squire, who has died aged 67 from leukaemia, remained committed to the group for the next 47 years. Squire, the band’s bass player, retained ownership of the Yes name even during a period of instability in the late 1980s, when other members split away to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. He was the only member to play on every one of Yes’s 21 studio albums, from their debut, Yes (1969), to Heaven & Earth (2014); and helped to write much of the band’s material.
While many fans regard the group’s 70s work, such as The Yes Album (1971), Close to the Edge (1972) and Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), as their creative pinnacle, it was 90125 – recorded after the group had split up and then reformed – that became their most commercially successful. Released in 1983, the album sold 8m copies worldwide and gave the band their only US chart-topper, with Owner of a Lonely Heart (which reached No 28 in the UK).
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