Heaven and Earth appears to have divided Yes’ fanbase like no album since 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans
Mike Tiano on whether this polarizing Yes album is a detour or a new path.
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‘I don’t mean to sound like everyone’s dull’: Jon Davison admits Yes’ new Heaven and Earth is ‘easy listening’
The softer-edged current project from Yes made a respectable debut at No. 26.
‘Heaved it at least 150 feet’: Peter Frampton teaches video-obsessed concertgoer a lesson
Don’t use your cell to film a Frampton show. Not if you want it back.
‘We all had our demons’: Jack Bruce on Cream’s pitfalls, and surviving them
The resurgent bassist has some stern advice for his younger self.
‘Definitely a momentum killer’: Mike Love laments the lost Beach Boys classic SMiLE
“What would have happened,” Love muses, “had there not been drugs involved?”
‘Some of it was a little bit overblown’: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on prog rock’s ups and downs
Anderson says he and contemporaries in ELP and Yes were often just showing off.
‘I’m not trying to slag the guy’: David Crosby returns to Crosby Stills and Nash’s failed Rick Rubin collaboration
This mismatched partnership generated far more headlines than actual music.
‘They don’t talk about it much’: John Stamos on the Beach Boys’ Charles Manson connection
“Never Learn Not to Love,” from 1969’s ’20/20,’ grew out of an original song by Manson.
‘The more user-friendly half’: Sammy Hagar says new shows provide Van Halen fans a special moment
Hagar takes pride in the musical legacy he’s recreating with Michael Anthony.
‘We think we’ve got it just fine’: Brian May bristles at notion that Queen + Adam Lambert is a tribute band
He says they walk a fine line between celebrating their past and moving forward.
