Friday 8 November 2013

Jon Anderson on Yes: "I Hope We Get Back Together and Do the Tour Everybody Dreams Of"

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When we here at Crossfade rang up Jon Anderson, the founding member and iconic voice of the pioneering English prog rock band Yes, we thought that we'd reached his secretary.
"It's me," he responds, swinging the words heavenward and high. He confesses that he is grocery shopping near his home in San Luis Obispo, in Central California. "I like to cook," he offers.
His alto-tenor voice (don't call it falsetto) brought special life to such iconic albums asClose to the Edge, the four-song double album Tales From Topographic Oceans and singles like "I've Seen All Good People" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart."
His interest in Eastern philosophy comes out not only in lyrical themes of humanity's interconnections on "And You And I" and many other songs, but also in his understanding when we botch up the recording of our first interview and have to call him back to repeat our chat. "How romantic," he says with a laugh after we ring him up again.

Anderson officially left Yes in 1980, but he still occasionally recorded and toured with the band as it became a revolving door for musicians. In 2008, after falling ill following a severe asthma attack, Anderson had to be hospitalized. Too sick to carry on fronting Yes, the other members continued without him, hiring two younger singers over the years, the current being Jon Davison.
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