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Dallas, TX - January 16, 2012. North American syndicated Rock radio show InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands celebrates the 40th anniversary of YES Fragile with co-founder Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. As the ‘70s began, the British music scene was in transition with the pop/psychedelic sound of the late sixties colliding with a heavier straight forward sound demonstrated by bands like Cream. Ultimately, it was a new progressive rock sound, almost classical in nature, that caught the attention of the British youth and soon the FM airways in America. For YES, their 4th album 1972's Fragile and its unlikely hit “Roundabout” would be the breakthrough to catapult the progressive rock outfit into arena superstars. Drafted as their new keyboard player then, Rick Wakeman tells show host Redbeard how YES found its mark when making Fragile: “I was always convinced…and it sounds a bit egotistical, but I don’t mean it to, that when we did Fragile, all the time we were recording it, writing it and putting it together, that it was something very, very special.” Jon Anderson remembers, “Probably around Fragile was the time that I started to become a little bit more like a director. They use to call me ‘Napoleon’. They never told me to my face (chuckles). It didn’t matter, I didn’t care, as long as it was happening. Later I learned the word ‘catalyst’.”

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