Fragile (Yes album)

Occupation

• Jon Anderson - Vocals
• Bill Bruford - drums
• Steve Howe - guitar, vocals
• Chris Squire - bass, vocals
• Rick Wakeman - Keyboards

Fragile is the fourth album by the progressive rock band Yes. It was published in 1971. Tony Kaye had just left the band here, Rick Wakeman had been added.

Content

When Yes classics from this album Long Distance Runaround, The Fish, Heart Of The Sunrise and Roundabout apply.

Wakeman solo piece Cans And Brahms is an adaptation of the third movement (Allegro giocoso ) from the 4th Symphony of Johannes Brahms for piano, synthesizer and reed organ. Originally the instrumental Catherine Of Aragon was planned at this point, but that could be published for legal reasons until a year later on Wakeman solo album The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.

Title list

The album was remastered in 2003 by Rhino Records and re-released. This edition contains the bonus tracks:

Cover

The cover was first designed by Roger Dean. On the front there is a beschienener of a bright light planet overflown by a space sailing ship in the otherwise empty room. In rest of the title of the album and the band's name, both interwoven. On the back of the catastrophe, the planet revealed breaks apart, the pieces float away. On the inside left of the text is to the songs, on the right, the song titles along with the usual album information. Bottom right in the corner of a small, fixed to the floor space sailors. This will be found again and again on the following albums. As a side dish, a booklet is included with the first editions. This contains a page with a group collage, five pages of a musician and two pages with more Roger- Dean- images.

Reprints

Again and again, special editions were launched from this album. A small U.S. edition was pressed in 1972 on the basis of that copyright and copyright rights of a small label in New Jersey. In today's American legal that would be unthinkable, but at that time in the U.S., it was possible and had to be tolerated to a certain extent. The cover showed crown jewels and is in the style of the fifties / sixties.

2002, edited by Fragile 30th anniversary of the album, a DVD-Audio version that contains a Dolby Digital and a DTS track.

At the same time also a Gold CD edition was launched. The first back -drawn support is missing is just a 10:31 -minute Heart Of The Sunrise the section We Have Heaven ( Reprise), the CD is therefore shorter by 53 seconds.

The album was re-released remastered again in 2003 by Rhino Records. This edition includes two bonus tracks, the cover version of the piece was published in America ( originally performed by Simon & Garfunkel ) originally in 1972 on the label sampler The New Age of Atlantic. An abridged version of this cover on 4:12 was found as a bonus track on the album Close to the Edge edition.

Swell

• English website with explanations on Yes' album covers ( version of 25 November 2005 at the Internet Archive )