“Wonderous Stories” by Yes

"Wonderous Stories" was the first single off Going for the One, the eighth Yes album, and it's the band at its most sun-dappled and unhurried: a Jon Anderson daydream that came to him one morning in Montreux, Switzerland, where Yes had holed up at Mountain Studios to cut the record. Anderson wrote it alone, and the rest of the group helped shape it from there.

The sessions began in October 1976 with Patrick Moraz on keyboards, but he was asked to leave early on, and it's Rick Wakeman on Moog on the finished track. Steve Howe plays electric and Portuguese guitar, Chris Squire bass, Alan White drums and percussion, and Howe and Squire sing behind Anderson. The band produced it themselves. In Britain it climbed to number seven, the highest any Yes single has reached there.

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