Trivia / 90125

• Black Sheep Hit: "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is much different from the band's progressive output.
• Career Resurrection: The album was the first big hit for the band after Jon Anderson's and Rick Wakeman's departures, and the controversial (but later Vindicated by History) Drama. AllMusic's retrospective review called the album "a stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead."
• Executive Meddling: The label insisted on releasing the album as a Yes album instead of a Cinema album because the core of the band had reformed. They would have had to change it anyway because other bands were already using the name Cinema. Record company pressure worked in the band's favor for once.
• Referenced by...:
  • Samples from "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "Leave It" appear in Art of Noise's "Close (To the Edit)", itself named after an earlier Yes work; producer Trevor Horn was a founding member of the sample-pop collective, and brought them together specifically because of their work on this album. The "Leave It" a capella sample would reappear under the Horn-less incarnation of the group via their covers of the Peter Gunn and Dragnet themes.
  • The Class episode "Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart" derives its name from "Owner of a Lonely Heart".
• What Could Have Been:
  • The band initially planned to release the album under the band name Cinema, but other bands using the name threatened to sue them. Like what happened with King Crimson two years prior, the project was considered close enough to Yes to readopt the name; by coincidence, the reformed King Crimson happened to feature former Yes drummer Bill Bruford. Another working title was The New Yes Album.
  • Before Jon Anderson joined the project, producer and Drama-era vocalist Trevor Horn was considered as the lead singer. Horn ultimately wouldn't return to the mic until the Return Trip remix of Fly from Here in 2018.

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