Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates {{safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst-infobox||$params=italic_title,name,type,longtype,artist,cover,border,alt,caption,released,recorded,venue,studio,genre,length,language,label,director,producer,compiler,chronology,prev_title,prev_year,year,next_title,next_year,misc|$extra=italic_title,longtype,border,caption,language,director,compiler,chronology,year,misc|$aliases=italic title>italic_title,Italic title>italic_title,Name>name,Type>type,image>cover,Cover>cover,Border>border,Alt>alt,Caption>caption,Longtype>longtype,Artist>artist,Released>released,Recorded>recorded,Venue>venue,Studio>studio,Genre>genre,Length>length,Language>language,Label>label,Director>director,Producer>producer,Compiler>compiler,Chronology>chronology,Misc>misc|$flags=override|$B={{#ifeq:{{#invoke:Is infobox in lead|main|[Ii]nfobox [Aa]lbum}}|true|{{#if:Template:Has short description | |Template:Short description|noreplace}}}}{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox album with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y|italic_title |type |name |image |cover |border |alt |caption |longtype |artist |released |recorded |venue |studio |genre |length |language |label |director |producer |compiler |prev_title|prev_year|next_title|next_year|chronology|year|misc}}{{#if:{{#invoke:String|match|error_category=Music infoboxes with Module:String errors|A|1=Yesterdays1975Tormato1978studioGoing for the OneYes_Going_for_the_One.jpgYes15 July 1977October 1976–April 1977Mountain, Montreux, SwitzerlandProgressive rock38:43AtlanticYesx|2=</?t[drh][ >]|nomatch=}}|Template:Main other}}Template:Main other}} Going for the One is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released on 15 July 1977 by Atlantic Records. After taking a break in activity in 1975 for each member to release a solo album, and their 1976 tour of the United States and Canada, the band relocated to Montreux, Switzerland to record their next studio album. During rehearsals, keyboardist Patrick Moraz left the group, which marked the return of Rick Wakeman who had left to pursue a solo career after differences surrounding Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973). In a departure from their previous albums, Going for the One, with the exception of the fifteen-minute "Awaken", features shorter and more direct songs without an overarching concept, and saw Yes record with new engineering personnel and cover artists.
Going for the One received a mostly positive response from music critics who welcomed the band's return to more accessible music. It was a commercial success, reaching No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks and No. 8 on the US Billboard 200. "Wonderous Stories" and "Going for the One" were released as singles; the former went to No. 7 in the UK and remains the band's highest-charting single in the country. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) within a month for selling 500,000 copies. Yes supported the album with a six-month tour of the US, Canada and Europe. A remastered edition was released in 2003 containing previously unreleased tracks from the album's recording sessions.
BackgroundEdit
In August 1975, Yes wrapped their 1974–1975 tour of the US, Canada and the UK in support of their seventh studio album, Relayer (1974). The line-up during this time was lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Patrick Moraz.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For their next move, the group decided to take an extended break so each member could record and release a solo album. They regrouped for their Solo Albums Tour from May to August, which saw Yes perform some of their highest attended concerts. By October 1976, the band had become tax exiles and relocated to Montreux, Switzerland, to record a new studio album at Mountain Studios,<ref name=2003cd/> their first studio album recorded overseas. They arrived at the studio when Emerson, Lake & Palmer were supposed to have finished Works (1977) but they were running overtime, leaving the group to work at a rehearsal space nearby for several weeks. A substantial amount of writing and arranging of their new material was done during this time.<ref name=moraz2002>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the first two months of writing and recording, Moraz was fired from the band, which he did not expect.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Anderson thought he "just wasn't playing like he was involved", and that his sound was not "too good, and that affected his vibe ... it was obvious that he just wasn't getting off on what we were doing."Template:Sfn Several months after his exit, Moraz said he had to leave because of "the enormous psychological pressures at the time within the group ... I felt there were a few things going on that I didn't know ... Unfortunately some people did not play the game fair, although the final decision was taken by all members."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The decision was made after Rick Wakeman, who had left Yes in 1974 over differences surrounding their ambitious double album Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973) and whom Moraz replaced, was invited to play on Going for the One as a session musician by Yes manager Brian Lane and business partner Alex Scott.Template:Sfn Wakeman had pursued a successful solo career, but by mid-1976 he faced financial problems after his tour earlier in the year had met its minimal targets.Template:Sfn He became interested in playing with Yes again after he had heard a tape of early versions of two of their new songs, "Going for the One" and "Wonderous Stories". Upon his arrival in Switzerland, Wakeman was surprised by how much the band had changed. "We began relating to each other for the first time. I think we had all grown up and became much more mature. Maybe I had to grow up more than them."Template:Sfn
At a subsequent party held by Claude Nobs, Lane and Squire convinced Wakeman to become a full-time member as the group would have difficulty in finding a suitable replacement to play Wakeman's parts on their upcoming tour, but did not tell him that they had already informed the press of his return. Wakeman found out when he saw himself on the front cover of Melody Maker, which had printed the news on 4 December 1976.<ref>Wakeman, Rick. YesYears documentary (1991)</ref>
RecordingEdit
The album was recorded from October 1976 to April 1977.Template:Sfn In a departure from their previous four studio albums, Yes recorded Going for the One with new engineering personnel. Since 1970, they had worked with Eddy Offord who also mixed their sound in concert. After the Relayer tour, Offord thought the band's style had become "a bit stale", and thought a split was needed to work with other bands.Template:Sfn Yes employed recording engineer John Timperley who was assisted by David Richards. In a first for the band, the album was solely produced by themselves.<ref name=ukvinyl/> It is also the first engineering job for Yes' future sound mixer Nigel Luby, who "did little more than watch and acquaint myself with the equipment."<ref name=luby1979>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Squire recalled numerous heated arguments over the use of echo on the album, as the group were divided over its use.<ref name=ucr2013>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The album marked a shift in the band's musical style. Having based Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer around extended or conceptual tracks, Yes decided to scale things back and record shorter and more accessible songs that critic and band biographer Chris Welch described as "user friendly". In one instance, Howe recalled the band had started to arrange a five-minute introduction to a song before they scrapped the idea, as the group realised "there are more ways of getting into songs [...] it was time to go back".<ref name=pond1977/> Howe said that some songs originated from ideas "from other eras" of the band's history, specifically "Turn of the Century" and parts of "Awaken"; Squire said that others were almost completely improvised in the studio, such as the long keyboard section to "Awaken" and various closing keyboard and guitar solos on other songs.<ref name=CB77-4>Cashbox 1977, p. Y4.</ref> Anderson spoke about the group's direction at the time: "The album is a kind of celebration [...] Over the last two or three years we've been experimenting a lot and we're happy to have been given that chance. [...] We've come back to a happier medium. [...] If we wanted another 'Tales' concept we would have gone in that direction, but we needed to relax for a while—a little more laughing and jive."<ref name=circus1977>Template:Cite news</ref>
In addition to recording at Mountain Studios, "Parallels" and "Awaken" features the church organ at St. Martin's in the town of Vevey<ref name=ukvinyl/> (4 miles away from Montreux). The band considered using a mobile studio to record on location, but Timperley persuaded them to rent a telephone line due to their high fidelity and the ability to feed the line directly into the studio.Template:Sfn<ref name=CB77-4/> "Parallels" was recorded with Wakeman in the church and the rest of the band in the studio; White counted the band in and they played the song through. On "Awaken", the organ is an overdub.Template:Sfn<ref name=CB77-4/> Wakeman described the experience as "absolute magic".<ref name=circus1977/> Wakeman changed his sound on the album with the use of a Polymoog, a polyphonic analogue synthesiser, which supplemented his traditional use of the Mellotron, Hammond organ, the RMI Electra Piano, and Minimoog synthesiser.
SongsEdit
Side oneEdit
"Going for the One" was originally written by Anderson around two or three years before the album was recorded.<ref name=ukvinyl/>Template:Sfn He had presented the song to the group at the time of writing, but the other members decided against recording it and the song was discarded. Squire rediscovered the song on a cassette which he brought into the studio one day, and it was chosen for further development. Howe plays a steel guitar for the entire song, an instrument he had introduced to the band on Close to the Edge; the introduction is what he had played during sound checks while on tour.<ref name=ukvinyl/><ref name=CB77-4/> Its meaning was inspired from various ideas, including sport, horse racing, a film he once saw about "going down the Grand Canyon river on one of those rubber dinghies", and "the cosmic mind".<ref name=circus1977/> Some years later, he viewed the track as "a dynamic piece of music" that was an underrated and underplayed song in the band's repertoire.Template:Sfn
"Turn of the Century" is credited to Anderson, Howe and White, the only track on the album that credits Alan White as a writer.<ref name=ukvinyl/> The song tells the story of Roan, a sculptor whose wife dies in the winter and, while in grief of her death, carves a statue of her and she is brought back to life.<ref name=ukvinyl/> Anderson gained the idea from the opera La bohème, with additional inspiration from the Greek mythological figure Pygmalion, who falls in love with a statue of a woman that he carved.Template:Sfn It was considerably shorter in length in its original form, but as the band continued to develop the song further Anderson suggested the song should tell the story musically before he added lyrics.<ref name=circus1977/> White came up with the song's chord sequences on piano and also wrote the initial vocal melody, which Anderson took a liking to and wrote words for: the chords were later developed further in certain sections by Howe.<ref>"Legendary YES Drummer ALAN WHITE: "YES is All About Looking Over The Horizon, Not At It" " – article in Sonic Perspectives by Scott Medina, 13 June 2019</ref> White also wrote the section where the drums incorporate the tympani towards the end.Template:Sfn The opening minutes of the track became one of Howe's favourite pieces of music by the band.Template:Sfn
"Parallels" was part of a collection of songs that Squire had written for his solo album Fish Out of Water (1975), but were left out due to the limited capacity of a vinyl record. He also felt the song did not fit with the style of the other tracks on his album.<ref>Kirkman, Jon (2007). "Interview With Chris Squire". In Fish Out of Water Deluxe Expanded Edition (Disc 2, track 3). Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.</ref> When it came to selecting songs for Going for the One, Squire suggested the song for the group to record, which was received well by the other members. Squire noted the juxtaposition of musical styles coming into play with his blues-oriented bass playing against Wakeman's church organ. In its rough form, the song contained no guitar riffs.Template:Sfn Squire said the lyrics are about "a spiritual kind of love" that offer a message of hope, a recurring theme of his lyrics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Sfn
Side twoEdit
"Wonderous Stories" is the second track on the album solely written by Anderson.<ref name=ukvinyl/> He wrote the song during "a beautiful day" while living in Switzerland, "one of those days you want to remember for years afterwards". During the day, the lyrics to the track entered his mind that he later wrote down. He noted the song's meaning as "the joys of life, as opposed to the uptightedness of some aspects of life" that was inspired by romantic stories and "a kind of dream sequence".Template:Sfn White contributed the idea of the drums and bass playing on odd beats.Template:Sfn
"Awaken" is a fifteen-minute track credited to Anderson and Howe.<ref name=ukvinyl/> The music originated from an incident at a hotel when Anderson heard Howe repeatedly play a chord sequence on his guitar as he walked by, which led Anderson to sing some lyrical ideas on top of it on tape. Howe had written the beginning of the guitar solo previously, which was originally to be a part of a solo guitar piece.Template:Sfn Anderson's main source of inspiration for the song was the book The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict (1975) by Calvin Miller, which he had read during his time in Switzerland. The book retells the story of Jesus in the form of an allegorical poem about a singer whose song could not be silenced. Anderson drew further inspiration from reading a biography on the Dutch painter Rembrandt, which had affected him "quite significantly".<ref name=circus1977/> Moraz wrote an introduction for the song which was not used, but was adapted into "Time for a Change" on his solo album Out in the Sun (1977).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Anderson wished to incorporate the harp into the song's middle section and "dream the audience, sort of Vivaldi", and later considered the song's lyrics and its final section with Wakeman's keyboards to be particularly strong.Template:Sfn The track features choral passages performed by the Richard Williams Singers, whose musical arrangements were directed by Wakeman, and the Ars Laeta of Lausanne, recorded at the Église des Planches, a church in Montreux.<ref name=ukvinyl>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> An early version of the song's introduction was performed live during the band's final gig on the Relayer tour, in 1975.Template:Fact
ArtworkEdit
In addition to a change of producers and engineers, Going for the One also marked a departure in the cover artists. Since 1971, they had worked with Roger Dean who became known for his surreal and fantastical landscapes and designed their distinctive logo.Template:Sfn While the band were recording Dean presented his idea for the cover painting, which had pieces of rock floating in the sky with the largest piece containing trees and a pool of water. The design was to be a conceptual sequel to his work produced on their first live album, Yessongs (1973).<ref>Yessongs: 40 Years On documentary at 32:18–32:58</ref> Dean said he flew to Montreux to discuss his ideas with the band but only met with Anderson, who was uninterested in his suggestions and instead, presented a rough design of what he wanted Dean to create.<ref>Yessongs: 40 Years On documentary at 32:58–33:28</ref> Anderson, however, claimed that while the band approached Dean to design the cover, he was unwilling to visit them.<ref name=CB77-27>Cashbox 1977, p. Y27.</ref> Howe claimed "a certain member" was no longer interested in working with Dean, which ended their collaboration until Drama (1980);Template:Sfn in his 2021 memoir All My Yesterdays he attributes that to a "misunderstanding".<ref name="Howe memoir">Template:Cite book</ref>
The band commissioned Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis to design the artwork. They came up with a marked change in direction that represented a new, revitalised attitude within the band and their return to more direct and concise songs.Template:Sfn Artist George Hardie contributed to the graphical design. Presented as a triple gatefold sleeve, the front cover depicts the back of a standing nude male looking at the Century Plaza Towers in Century City, California against a blue sky. By the time the album was released Yes had acquired full ownership of Dean's logo, which they previously had co-owned, and used it on the cover. Dean is credited in the liner notes.<ref name=ukvinyl/> Inside features a photograph of each band member by Lake Geneva and Île de Peilz, an island on the lake that consists of a single tree.<ref name=ukvinyl/> Richard Manning, a freelance artist who worked for Hipgnosis at the time, used double weighted photo paper to accommodate the triple gatefold. He applied various techniques onto the design including a light blue dye wash, clouds added with an airbrush, and photomontage. The coloured lines running through the cover were added at the printing stage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Anderson said the lines intersecting through the male define "points of the anatomy relative to our development."<ref name=CB77-27/>
Howe was not "thrilled" at the design at the time of release, but said it worked well with the music and was pleased that Dean's logo was retained;<ref name=CB77-27/> in 2021 he said he had "no hard feelings" about it.<ref name="Howe memoir" /> Melody Maker reporter and band biographer Chris Welch wrote about the cover: "Gone were the elaborate Roger Dean landscapes. In their place came stark, geometric simplicity. Anticipating computer designs of the future ... it symbolised a new look for Yes".Template:Sfn Martin Popoff reviewed the design in 2016. "A new accelerated, late-'70s escapism through the clean lines of Hipgnosis, who combine slick, futuristic geometric urban angles with a man in his birthday suit, perhaps urgently propelling the band forward, while simultaneously embracing roots".Template:Sfn
When released, the record label promoted the album with an outdoor advertising campaign. Howe recalled that one billboard with the album cover art on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles covered up the man's buttocks and thighs with a pair of trousers. He was bemused that anyone would have taken offence at the original image, particularly the "pimps, drug dealers and loose women" who frequented the street.<ref name="Howe memoir" />
ReleaseEdit
Going for the One was released in the US on 12 July 1977<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in the UK on 15 July 1977, available on LP, audio cassette, and 8-track tape.<ref name=BPI/> Its release was delayed after various problems were encountered with the pressing.<ref name=ottawa1977>Template:Cite news</ref> It became a commercial success for the band, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart, their second album to do so following Tales from Topographic Oceans, for two weeks in August 1977 and peaking at number 8 on the US Billboard 200.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Elsewhere, the album went to number 7 in Norway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 2 August 1977 for selling over 500,000 copies in the US.<ref name=RIAA>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the UK, the album reached silver certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 19 September 1977, signifying 60,000 copies sold and sales worth over £150,000.<ref name=BPI>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Enter "Going for the One" in the field Keywords and select the option Title in the Search by field. Click the Exact match box and then Search.</ref>
The album spawned two singles, both released in 1977. "Wonderous Stories" was released with "Parallels" as the B-side<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> which peaked at number 7 in the UK singles chart. To help promote the song, Yes filmed their first music video for the song which received airplay on the BBC television music show Top of the Pops. It remains the band's highest-charting single in the country. The second, "Going for the One" with an edited version of "Awaken Pt. 1" on the B-side,<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> reached number 24 in the UK.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReceptionEdit
Template:Music ratings In his review for Los Angeles Times, Steve Pond believed the album succeeds because the band had "lowered rather than raised its sights. By going back to basics rather than trying to top its previous 'extravaganzas', Yes has produced its most appealing collection" since Close to the Edge. He praised the "refreshing energy" the album brings, but noted their "kitchen-sink approach to song-writing, throwing everything into a composition but sometimes failing to smoothly integrate the disparate elements".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In Record Mirror, reviewer Robin Smith gave the album five "+", the highest ranking which means "Unbeatable". He praised the title track, which opens the album with "an uncharacteristic piece of boogie" and has atmosphere and an effective ending. Smith concluded that with the album, "Yes dispel all your fears that the band are over the hill and finished [...] they're back stronger than ever."<ref name=RM770709>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Billboard gave a positive review, noting the band "is clearly going all out here to create its most ambitious and awesome work yet", and picked the title track, "Wonderous Stories", and "Awaken" as the best cuts.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In a retrospective review, biographer and reporter Chris Welch welcomed the album after the more complex material on Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer, citing its "melodic simplicity" which was "a breath of fresh air" and still stood up strong at the time of his review. He praised Wakeman's performance and the band's choice in incorporating his talents into the music more effectively, which was not the case on Tales. He praised every track, calling "Wonderous Stories" a tune that allowed the group "to fly without really trying" and the closing moments of "Awaken", in particular, "quite beautiful ... the kind of music making now almost a lost art".Template:Sfn Ross Boissoneau, for AllMusic, described Going for the One as "perhaps the most overlooked item in the Yes catalog ... In many ways, this disc could be seen as the follow-up to Fragile (1971). Its five tracks still retain mystical, abstract lyrical images, and the music is grand and melodic, the vocal harmonies perfectly balanced by the stinging guitar work of Steve Howe, Wakeman's keyboards, and the solid rhythms of Alan White and Chris Squire". He called "Awaken" an "evocative track" with lyrics "spacey in the extreme", but praised Anderson and Squire's vocals and the addition of Anderson's harp and White's tuned percussion.<ref name=allmusic>{{#ifeq: | yes | https://www.allmusic.com/album/r22460{{
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}}</ref> Paul Stump's 1997 History of Progressive Rock noted Going for the One was a surprise triumph for Yes, achieving both critical and commercial success despite arriving in the middle of the "summer of Punk" and after a nearly three-year hiatus from the studio. He singled out "Turn of the Century" ("a masterstroke of textural finesse") and "Parallels" ("a bullying piece of music-making which careers along with intimidating speed and violence, culminating contrapuntally in one of Yes's most adrenalized climaxes yet") as the highlights.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
TourEdit
Yes supported Going for the One with a tour of the US, Canada and Europe that ran from 30 July to 6 December 1977, and featured Donovan as their opening act.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The stage set had a much simpler design compared to the band's previous three tours, which centred around a series of illuminated shapes which gave a three-dimensional effect. Wakeman's keyboards were arranged on two levels.<ref name=RM77>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=pond1977>Template:Cite news</ref> Anderson was illuminated in multiple colours as he sung an excerpt of "The Beautiful Land" from the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd. The tour included a record six consecutive sold out nights at Wembley Arena in London that were attended by over 50,000 people.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In order to play the different bass parts on "Awaken", Squire used a custom triple-necked bass made in 1975 by Wal for Roger Newell, the bassist in Wakeman's band the English Rock Ensemble.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Recordings from the European tour were released on Yes's second live album, Yesshows (1981).
Yes selected Going for the One for their first Album Series Tour from March 2013 to June 2014, with the album performed live in its entirety and in track order.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>Template:Sfn
ReissuesEdit
Going for the One was first reissued on CD across Europe in 1988.<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> A digitally remastered CD followed in 1994 made by George Marino at Sterling Sound studios.<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> In 2003, Rhino and Elektra Records released a new digitally remastered CD with seven bonus tracks.<ref name=2003cd>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> 2013 saw two remastered "audiophile" versions put out, one by Audio Fidelity for the Super Audio CD format<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> and the other by Friday Music releasing a 180-gram LP using analog tape dubs since the original tapes were missing.<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>
Track listingEdit
All tracks arranged and produced by Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Rick Wakeman.
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Notes
- "Montreux's Theme" and "Amazing Grace" first appeared on Yesyears, released in 1991.
- The version of "Vevey (Revisited)" featured here is different from the ones released on Yesyears.
PersonnelEdit
Credits are adapted from the album's 1977 and 2003 liner notes.<ref name=2003cd/><ref name=ukvinyl/>
Yes
- Jon Anderson – lead vocals, harp
- Steve Howe – steel guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, vachalia, pedal steel guitar, vocals
- Chris Squire – bass guitar, fretless bass, 8-string bass, vocals
- Rick Wakeman – piano, electric keyboards, church organ at St. Martin's in Vevey, Polymoog synthesizer, choral arrangement on "Awaken"
- Alan White – drums, percussion, tuned percussion
Additional personnel
- Ars Laeta of Lausanne – choir on "Awaken"
- Richard Williams Singers – choir on "Awaken"
Production
- Yes – production
- John Timperley – recording engineer
- David Richards – assistant recording engineer
- Sean Davis – disc cutting
- Paul Van Der Sonckheyd – disc cutting
- George Hardie – graphics
- Alex Grob – inner spread photography
- Jaques Straessle – inner spread photography
- Hipgnosis – sleeve design, photography
- Roger Dean – Yes logo design
- Brian Lane – executive producer
ChartsEdit
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| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>Template:Cite book</ref> | 16 | |
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16 |
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10 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref name="JPN">Template:Cite book</ref> | 20 |
Year-end chartsEdit
| Chart (1977) | Position |
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| UK Albums (OCC)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | 16 |
CertificationsEdit
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