Chris Squire
“I saw Yes many times, the first time being at the Marquee back in 1968. I was struck by how good they were, and particularly Chris. I met him for the first time in LA when I was in GTR with Steve Howe [circa ’86]. He was very positive about our show and Genesis, I told him how much I liked Yes, so we became friends and, over time, started to work together.
“We shared a love of groups on [Squire’s 1975 solo album] . He said, ‘Yeah, that’s the organ at St Paul’s Cathedral. We did a bit of a nifty at three in the morning, broke in and recorded it!’ That was typical Chris. He was always flying by the seat of his pants, robbing Peter to pay Paul, but getting things done. The fact his band was named Yes was no accident – he was a great optimist, and saw no enemy coming: ‘This’ll work out, we’ll be able to afford this, we’ll do that, that’ll happen, we’ll get it done, everything will fall into place.’ And he wasn’t wrong.
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