Thursday, 27 March 2014

Jon Anderson can dip into quite a canon

Jon AndersonJon Anderson, the signature voice of the band Yes, isn’t in that iconic group anymore.

While he was having throat problems a couple of years ago, the band replaced him with Benoit David, a sound-alike who had fronted a Yes tribute band and now leads the outstanding prog-rock band Mystery.

So Yes has turned to Jon Davison, late of the groups Sky Cries Mary and Glass Hammer, as lead singer.

Now, this story sounds familiar, like when two Yes bands formed in the 1990s — one with Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe and the other with Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Alan White and Geoff Downes.

Those two groups eventually got together for the epic “Union” tour, one of the best Yes events of all time.


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