They were perhaps the last super group to blast out of London's Marquee club and take the world by storm. The Who and The Stones had lifted off from the Marquee just a few short years before. When singer/songwriter Jon Anderson and bass man Chris Squire formed YES in 1968, no one could have foreseen the incredible outcome. By 1968 rock and roll had proven that it was here to stay but what rock had yet to prove was that it was music that could be taken seriously - that this music could be lifted to unimagined creative heights. Anderson and Squire dreamed that the raw power and excitement of rock and roll, if blended with the complexities and rich textures of classical music, and the fluid risk taking of jazz, could produce something magical.


YES pioneered what would be called "Progressive" or "Art Rock" and together with bands like Pink Floyd , Genesis, and ELP, they created a whole new genre of rock music.