“America” by Yes

Yes released their take on "America", a song with words and music by Paul Simon, in 1972, and they rebuilt it in their own image: the arrangement is credited to the band as a whole. Jon Anderson sings lead, with Steve Howe and Chris Squire on backing vocals, and the playing comes from Howe on guitar, Squire on bass, Bill Bruford on drums and Rick Wakeman on keyboards.

Eddy Offord engineered it and shared the producer's chair with the band, and the result plays less like a polite cover than a takeover, a songwriter's tune handed to five players with their own ideas about where it ought to go.

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