Talking About Talk – The Forgotten Yes Album

With the long-awaited 30th anniversary reissue now available, Yes’s final album featuring Trevor Rabin and Tony Kaye is well overdue for re-evaluation. This is the story of Talk, the band’s innovative and relatively unsung masterpiece, and the tour that followed its original release in 1994.

Stephen Lambe

Yes’s hugely successful Union tour ended in spring 1992. This left the band – not for the first time – at a crossroads. In truth, there was never much likelihood of the eight-piece Yes continuing, but salvation came in the form of long-term supporter Phil Carson, who now ran a new label, Victory, for Japanese conglomerate JVC and badly wanted Yes on his roster. He knew what version of the band he wanted, and Trevor Rabin was given a mission. “Phil asked me if I’d take the responsibility for a new Yes album with the 90125 line-up giving us pretty much free rein to do what we wanted,” Rabin remembers. The guitarist also had a plan for recording. “I’ve always been technically minded and I’d been following the development of…

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