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TIPPING point of sorts was reached in autumn 1973 when Yes were recording their sixth LP at Morgan Studios, London. Finding – according to synth wizard Rick Wakeman – that they had “enough material for an album and a bit”, the prog giants were left with a choice as to whether to trim down to make a killer single LP, or stretch it out to fill four sides. True to the hubristic spirit of the times, they went for the double, leaving Wakeman so bored and] Sabbath,” he recalls. “That was sanity.”