Label: Atlantic Records (Japan), AMCY-6285
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 36:45
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 275 Mb
Many
Yes fans gave their grudging approval to 1980’s highly consistent
Drama, even though the introduction to the lineup of Buggles hitmakers
Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes caused consternation in such a tribalistic
era.
"Obviously when we first joined Yes there was a huge outcry
from the diehard Yes fans," Downes told us. "The idea of a couple of
interlopers from the pop world suddenly stepping into this revered band.
But in hindsight, both myself and Trevor were musicians, not pop guys.
We were very much into Yes and progressive music. It’s just that our
opportunity came to make pop music and we took it."
"It was full of
dramas, engineer Hugh Padgam said. "There was so much tension around.
I’d done a Buggles session, and it was Trevor Horn who roped me into the
Yes camp to help out. Eddy Offord [who produced the album with the
band] was mad, but a genius. I got on well with Steve Howe and Alan
White. But it was not easy!"
It wasn’t. By the following year Yes had
cracked and splintered. Geoff Downes and Steve Howe became founding
members of Asia and enjoyed huge success in their own right. Vocalist
Trevor Horn was on an upward trajectory as a producer. And that left
bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White trying to figure out what do
do next. They succeeded – and how! – but that’s another story.
(classicrockreview.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/yes-drama-1980/)
01. Machine Messiah (10:24)
02. White Car (01:20)
03. Does It Really Happen? (06:32)
04. Into The Lens (08:30)
05. Run Through The Light (04:41)
06. Tempus Fugit (05:16)
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