History Music / Yes

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Anderson was born with the name "John" and kept it that way for the first 3 albums, but changed it to "Jon" before ''Fragile'', and hasn't looked back since.

Yes is a British group that has been vital in the formation of ProgressiveRock, embodying both the best (incredible instrumental proficiency) and worst of the genre (EndingFatigue inducing endless jamming). Formed in 1968, their music is marked by [[EpicRocking long song lengths]], instrumental prowess, {{uncommon time}}, sudden dynamic shifts, [[WordSaladLyrics incomprehensible lyrics]], lush vocal harmonies and lead singer Jon Anderson's distinctive high-pitched voice.

* GuestStarPartyMember: Jay Schellen has filled in on percussion on and off for Alan White since 2016 due to the latter's various health problems, although some shows have them both performing on different songs; White would eventually die six years later. Steve Howe's son Dylan did the same during a U.S. tour in 2017.

** ''Fly from Here'' is the ''second'' Yes studio album to come out following the departures of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman from the "classic Yes" lineup to see involvement from Trevor Horn (strictly in the producer's chair) and Geoff Downes.

** Jon Anderson has started two groups that splintered from the main Yes band: ABWH, and ARW. Ironically, one of these bands solely focused on the classic era of Yes, while the other is currently balanced between the classic prog material and the poppier "YesWest" songs.

** "Take the Water to the Mountain" finishes with background yelling from Jon Anderson, alongside some twinkly synth notes that would be comforting in any other context, but just seem strange here. It's an unnerving ending to ''Union'' as a whole, unless you have a version of the album with "Give and Take".

** Chris Squire was basically all four types, but he was most certainly a Type A. He's for very good reason renowned as the virtuoso, in a band of virtuosos, with basically every major bassist coming after him singing his praises. However, he was also a Type B, with his backing/harmony vocals being a huge part of the Yes sound. He was ''also'' a Type C, most likely being the most recognizable member aside from ''maybe'' Rick Wakeman or Jon Anderson, as well as a Type D, with pretty much all of their most famous songs, for example Roundabout featuring his bass front and center.

* ''Music/{{Yes|Album}}'' (1969) – "Beyond and Before", "Every Little Thing" (Music/TheBeatles cover), "Harold Land", "Survival".

* ''Music/{{Fragile}}'' (1971) – "Roundabout", "South Side of the Sky", "Long Distance Runaround/The Fish"(it's actually a two parter in spite of the radio), "Heart of the Sunrise".

* ''Music/TalesFromTopographicOceans'' (1973) – "Ritual".

* ''Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe'' (1989)[[note]]billed as an independent offshoot group, but considered by many fans to be a ''de facto'' Yes album, as it was made up entirely of ex-Yes members (Specifically the same lineup that recorded ''Fragile'' and ''Close to the Edge'', minus Chris Squire) and the ABWH members were absorbed back into Yes proper with ''Union'' (which actually started life as an ABWH album)[[/note]]

* ''Open Your Eyes'' (1997) – "Open Your Eyes", "No Way We Can Lose".

* ''Magnification'' (2001) – "Don't Go", "In the Presence Of", "System of Survival"
* ''Fly from Here'' (2011) – "Fly from Here"[[note]]A song left over from ''Drama'', played live by the 1980–81 lineup but never recorded properly until 2011[[/note]], "Madman at the Screens", "Solitaire".
** ''Fly from Here - Return Trip'' (2018) - ''Fly from Here'' re-recorded with Trevor Horn on lead vocals)

* ''Heaven & Earth'' (2014) – "To Ascend", "In a World of Our Own", "Believe Again", "It Was All We Knew".
* ''The Quest'' (2021) - "The Ice Bridge", "Dare to Know"
* ''Mirror to the Sky'' (2023) - "Cut from the Stars"

!!! Members (founders are in bold):

* HiddenTrack: "The Solution", the closing track of ''Open Your Eyes'', is listed as being 23:47 long, yet the song itself is only 5:26. This is followed by two minutes of silence, then the rest is ambient noise (birds singing, waves crashing) punctuated by lyrics from the album's previous tracks.

** ARW is a supergroup comprised of Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, with bassist Lee Pomeroy and drummer Louis Molino III filling in, which formed in 2010. Following the band's Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2017, they have billed themselves as "Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman" with a different logo, as Anderson (who co-owned the rights to the band name with Squire and had allowed Yes to continue without him, so long as Chris was still in the group) wishes to assert himself as the only remaining active founding member of the band and believes his group to more closely work in the spirit of the group than the official lineup.