History Trivia / Yes

** Surprisingly to some, most of Yes' radio staples (including the two above songs) do not contain the Wakeman/White lineup, considered by many as their signature liveup. While ''Yessongs'' was a hit and showed they were plenty capable of performing Kaye and Bruford's earlier material, it wasn't until ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' that they recorded in studio together.

* AdaptationExpansion: The incredibly obscure ''Yes Remixes'' (see AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent below) turns the 37-second "Five Per Cent For Nothing" from ''Fragile'' into a 4:44 dance song. [[AdaptationDistillation Conversely]], the same album condenses the 21:33 "Ritual" way down to 6:20.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Going for the One'' and ''Tormato''. Storm Thorgerson also directed the video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

** One of the reasons Cinema became Yes is that there was already another band called Cinema.

* {{Promoted Fanboy}}:

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Talk'' has only ever had two printings (the initial release in 1994 and a limited re-release in 2002), which means getting a CD of ''Talk'' involves finding a used copy or paying inflated prices for the scarce amount of new ones. And if you want to TakeAThirdOption and buy the mp3 version? It turns out ''Talk'' has never had a legitimate digital release, and is not available in full even on streaming sites like Spotify (some of the album is there, but "Endless Dream" is missing).

** Oliver Wakeman intended to contribute heavily to the writing of ''Fly From Here'' before he was booted out for Geoff Downes. By the time the album was finished, "Into the Storm" was the only piece he worked on that remained.

** "Love Will Find A Way" (peaked at #30) off the ''Big Generator'' album. The song is really a good power ballad (even if it does contain one of the worst lyrics in rock history, "I eat at Chez Nous"), but it sounds like a song any '80s arena rock band could write.* BreakthroughHit: ''The Yes Album'' was the first album of theirs to chart in America, and "Your Move" was their first single to make the Top 40.

* BreakthroughHit: ''The Yes Album'' was the first album of theirs to chart in America, and "Your Move" was their first single to make the Top 40.

** Rabin, Kaye, Squire, and White originally asked Trevor Horn (who had already committed to be the producer) to sing on the album that would become ''90125''. Horn refused (maybe remembering the poor reception from fans he had received on the ''Drama'' tour). It was only after this that Squire met Anderson at a party and brought him back into the fold.

** Rick Wakeman wasn't allowed to compose anything on ''Fragile'' for legal reasons, which explains why his solo piece on that album is arranged classical work by Brahms. His contributions on followup ''Close to the Edge'' were credited as "themes" to get around the contractual lockout.

** Also most of the participants of the ''Union'' album, due to the overproduction, ExecutiveMeddling and replacement of band contributions with that of session musicians and computer editing in post-production. Rick Wakeman famously calls it "Onion" [[IncrediblyLamePun as it brings tears to his eyes]].

* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using The "Y" Word]]: Some press releases for Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe are bent comically out of shape implying that this band was Yes without ever actually using the name. Yet others explicitly refer to ABWH as a band that in the 70's was called Yes, so Arista Records' lawyers seemed uncertain if they could actually use the word "Yes" or not. [[note]]A later agreement between Arista and Atco Records specified that ABWH could refer to their origins in Yes, but ABWH could not call themselves that.[[/note]]

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Going for the One'' and ''Tormato''. Storm Thorgerson also directed the video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Going for the One'' and ''Tormato''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Talk'' has only ever had two printings (the initial release in 1994 and a limited re-release in 2002), which means getting a CD of ''Talk'' involves finding a used copy or paying inflated prices for the scarce amount of new ones.

* NamesTheSame: One of the reasons Cinema became Yes is that there was already another band called Cinema.

** Rabin, Kaye, Squire, and White originally asked Trevor Horn (who had already committed to be the producer) to sing on the album that would become ''90125''. Horn refused (maybe remembering the poor reception from fans he had received on the ''Drama'' tour). It was only after this that Squire met Anderson at a party and brought him back into the fold
** ''Fragile'' was originally envisioned as a double album with live tracks. This idea was dropped because of cost concerns and the need to get the album out quickly to pay for Wakeman's instruments.

** After ''Union'', the record label Victory offered a contract to only the members who had been on the hit eighties albums, ''90125'' and ''Big Generator''. They then made sure an epic length song ("Endless Dream") and an old song by Rabin, "Walls", appeared on the record; the latter, much to Rabin's chagrin. In a bit of poetic justice, the label folded shortly after its release.

** Eddie Jobson (ex-JethroTull, Music/RoxyMusic, UK and FrankZappa keyboardist/violinist) was recruited to join Yes in 1983 after Tony Kaye (who had recorded some of the keyboard parts as a special guest) had finished his studio work on ''90125''. Jobson and Kaye rehearsed with Yes for the ''90125'' tour, and Jobson participated in the filming of the "top of the skyscraper" part of the video of "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" (though he was largely edited out later), but some personal and musical differences led Jobson to leave the band.

** Rabin, Kaye, Squire, and White originally asked Trevor Horn (who had already committed to be the producer) to sing on the album that would become ''90125''. Horn refused (maybe remembering the poor reception from fans he had received on the ''Drama'' tour). It was only after this that Squire met Anderson at a party and brought him back into the fold

* FranchiseKiller: ''Union'' killed the band commercially, and all their albums since been released on indie labels, though the band is still an in-demand live act. Conversely, ''Drama'' looked like it would be this...before the band came back for ''90125''

* FranchiseKiller: ''Union'' killed the band commercially, and all their albums since been released on indie labels. Conversely, ''Drama'' looked like it would be this...before the band came back for ''90125''

* ThrowItIn: ''Literally'' led to the final cover of ''Tormato''. Hipgnosis had been showing Yes the photographs taken for the cover at the Yes Tor, when the album was still planned to be named ''Yes Tor'', when a frustrated Wakeman threw a tomato at one of the images, annoyed by how poor he felt the proposal was. Hipgnosis ended up incorporating the effect into the final cover, and the album was renamed ''Tormato''.

* FranchiseKiller: ''Union'' killed the band commercially, and has been on indie labels since. Conversely, ''Drama'' looked like it would be this...before the band came back for ''90125''