Steve Howe and Asia had already cracked the Top 5 with 1982′s “Heat of the Moment” when Yes — Howe’s former band — emerged with a new guitarist and the track “Owner of a Lonely Heart.”
Howe eventually returned to Yes in 1995, and continues with the band today. He left Asia in 1984, then reunited with the group for a pair of stints in 1991-93 and then again from 2006 until earlier this year.
But back then, Trevor Rabin was playing in Howe’s absence, and together they would take that new song to the top of the charts, a first for Yes.
“I was listening to ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart,’ thinking: ‘Wow, Yes has changed. They changed the guitarist, and it changed the whole group,’” Howe says in this clip. “I never realized that would happen. I thought they were going to be the same group, with a different guitarist. This was nothing like what I knew.”
The longer he listened, Howe says, the more “Owner of a Lonely Heart” started to sound, well, familiar. It started to sound like … Asia.
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