IN MEMORY OF ALAN WHITE

When Alan White joined Yes in 1972, he couldn’t have imagined that he would still be playing an active role in the band 50 years later. Yes dedicated their recent Close To The Edge UK Tour to the memory of their long-serving drummer, who died in May at the age of 72. The versatile musician was a fast learner who had also played with John Lennon, both in the Plastic Ono Band and on the album, Imagine. We look back over his unexpected career.

Sid Smith, Alan White

Our lives are so often accompanied by the music of chance. Attentive listeners will know that strange coincidences and unexpected encounters chime loudly throughout our personal histories, echoing and shaping our world with odd connections in ways that are unforeseen, fortuitous or simply surprising. For example, take Alan White. He was born in 1949 in the coal mining village of Pelton in north-east England. Not too far from that settlement is Drum Road, now the site of the Drum Business Park. Just a few miles from his Pelton birthplace sits the town of Washington. That, in turn, isn’t too far away from Newcastle, where White’s first band, The Downbeats, played its clubs and halls in the early 60s. Fast forward a couple of decades and White became a long-term resident…

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