Prog

Bloody Well Write

YES? ERM, NO!

The Yes Top 40 [Prog 107] was an interesting read. The Top 20 spoke volumes either for the age of your readers or the quality of songs. The most recent Yes song in the Top 10 was from 1977, 43 years ago. Doesn’t really say much for stuff released since. And three of those were the same album from 1972, damn near 50 years ago. In the Top 20, all songs were from the 1970s except one from 1983 – a mere 37 years ago. Living in the past for both fans and band, methinks.

Roy Watson-Davis
Suffolk

POWER TO THE PEN

I was extremely fortunate to grow up in the late 60s/early 70s when music leapt forward at

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