Yes – “The Yes Album”

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Despite a fine live reputation and two well-received albums, Yes had not made the commercial breakthrough to a wider audience that some of the band’s British label mates on Atlantic had achieved. However, with the arrival of Steve Howe as guitarist, a better concept of what the band was trying to achieve in the studio with engineer/co-producer Eddie Offord and a focus on material that could be played live with the same punch as the studio recordings, 1971’s The Yes Album proved to be that vital step to a much wider audience in Europe and America. From the opening notes of “Yours is No Disgrace” to the final fade of “Perpetual Change,” the sound is of a band that is brimming with musical confidence. Jon Anderson noted that, “I think we came up with that title because it felt like the first real Yes album.”