“Perpetual Change” by Yes

"Perpetual Change" is a Jon Anderson and Chris Squire song from The Yes Album, the 1971 Atlantic record that finally put Yes over after two flops had the label eyeing the door. It was the band's first album made entirely of their own material, the first with Steve Howe, who had come in for Peter Banks in 1970, and the last with Tony Kaye on keys until 90125 in 1983.

They worked the songs up at a farmhouse in Devon in mid-1970 and cut them at Advision in London that autumn, with Eddy Offord engineering and co-producing alongside the band. This is the new lineup stretching its legs: Anderson singing lead, Squire's bass carrying melody as much as rhythm, Howe's guitar darting around Kaye's keyboards and Bill Bruford driving the drums and percussion, with room to wander on a record that let its tracks run long.

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