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When Yes released Drama in 1980, it took some fans by surprise. Vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboard legend Rick Wakeman were gone. In their place, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of the Buggles stepped in on vocals and keyboards respectively. As jarring as it might have been at the time, the Drama album turned out to be a fascinating listen and over time became both a fan favorite and a cult classic. It was also Horn and Downes’ only album with that configuration of the group. In classic Yes fashion, the lineup shifted again though Horn would remain in a different capacity as producer to help craf...
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Asia played its first proper concert since 2019 on Wednesday evening (July 3) in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The performance launched the band’s summer tour and unveiled a new lineup who quickly revealed they were well-equipped for the task. The British group’s eponymous 1982 debut, now over 40 years removed from its original release, figured heavily in the night’s set list with seven of its nine tracks getting feature time. It’s hardly surprising seeing as the album went to No. 1 on Billboard’s album charts, driven by the success of three major singles. Songs like the now-signature “Heat of the ...
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Asia‘s newly rebuilt lineup has Geoff Downes re-considering some uncompleted songs he worked on with the late John Wetton. “They weren’t really fully developed,” Downes tells Classic Rock. “They were basic ideas. Then John’s health deteriorated quite rapidly and we never got the opportunity to get stuck in and take it further.” Wetton died in 2017 after battling with cancer. Downes put together Asia’s upcoming tour after hitting it off with singer Harry Whitley, drummer Virgil Donati and guitarist John Mitchell at last year’s Wetton memorial concert. Two of them have direct musical connections...
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