Going for the One

Occupation

Jon Anderson - vocals, harp
Steve Howe - guitar, vocals
Chris Squire - bass, vocals
Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
Alan White - drums

Going for the One is the tenth album by the English progressive rock band Yes, while their eighth studio album.

Formation

The first ideas for the still -untitled follow-up album to Relayer (1974 ) occurred during the Yes tour on May 28, 1976 to August 22, 1976, when a total of 53 shows were played. During this tour an early, two and a half minute version of the later album title Awaken was played under the title High vibration. These were at the beginning of the piece, which the former keyboard player Patrick Moraz Yes - had composed instrumental, so this was quite involved in the development of Going for the One. Since he was replaced by his predecessor Rick Wakeman in the course of work on the album, this was not stated on the album. Moraz got no money, which subsequently led to several disputes between him and the band for his musical contributions to Going for the One. For example, the chord progression goes at the beginning of Awaken solely due Moraz and is therefore also in his song Time for a Change of his solo album, Out in the Sun (1977 ) to hear.

The recordings for the Yes album Going for the One began immediately after the end of the tour in September 1976 in Montreux on Lake Geneva. The local Mountain Studios were the only place to which the Yes - musicians were able to agree. After demanding Tales from Topographic Oceans, and there have the rather aggressive album Relayer, Yes deliberately wanted to return to a more accessible music and a more positive mood with her new album, which led to differences with Moraz which of the experimental, influenced by jazz styles Relayer preferred; were added difficulty in the collaboration of guitarist Steve Howe and Moraz, which felt the other group members as a hindrance to the work on the new album and were looking for a solution later found himself in a separation of Moraz.

When I was offered the opportunity in November 1976 to bring Rick Wakeman back in the band, operating mainly band manager Brian Lane 's return. Lane (at this time, managers of Wakeman ) considered primarily economic aspects. Wakeman had indeed presented with Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table and no earthly connection behind the other three highly successful solo albums - was thus as a popular artist of course a guarantee of higher sales of products Yes - had on the other hand with its lavish tours to Journey to the Centre of the Earth and King Arthur ( which he carried out in part with orchestra) in turn also lost a lot of money.

In a first request of the Yes - Road Manager Alex Scott in October 1976 Wakeman reacted cautiously, since he had left Yes in 1974 for musical reasons, as he had found the music of Relayer no access. The renewed offer of the band for collaboration was therefore formulated according careful: we wanted Wakeman pay to work as a session musician on the new album. Thereupon Wakeman finally let a. As they had, however, sent him the tape with the first sketches of the songs of Wonderous Stories and Going for the One, Wakeman recognized that the band had returned to the old song format and considered to participate in Going for the One.

At a party of Warner Bros. -Europe boss Claude Nobs finally spoke with Chris Squire Wakeman on his status as a session musician. It will, as Squire tells him to be problematic for the band to find a keyboardist who can play Wakeman posts on the upcoming tour. The very next morning was to read the lead story in the music magazine Melody Maker: " Wakeman rejoins Yes" ( Wakeman returns to back Yes ).

Wakeman also therefore returned because the other band members gave him freedoms in relation to his solo activities. The joint work on Going for the One then dragged on until May 1977, however, ran, compared with previous studio recordings, comparatively smoothly. Rick Wakeman enjoyed the time in Montreux, so much so that he was still living for a while in Switzerland. Only Steve Howe suffered from the increasing stress of the many concert tours and recording sessions.

Publication

Immediately after the release of the album turned Frank Laufenberg this in SWF " Pop Shop" and told it several anecdotes to the recordings, for example, that the church organ on the songs Parallels and Awaken by Rick Wakeman will be recorded live at the church in Vevey was because the church had been wired to the studio and so this real live recordings were possible.

Title list

Going for the One was remastered in 2003 and re-released by Rhino Records with the following bonus tracks:

Comments

The church organ on the album was recorded from St. Martin in the neighboring Vevey through a normal swiss telephone line, the quality was high enough to be sufficient for recording. There are also recordings of Vevey, a organ / harp duet with Anderson Wakeman, the first time in 1991 appeared in the compilation YesYears emerged.
The song Going for the One was created in 1974 or 1975.
The text of Turn of the Century refers to the ancient Pygmalionmythos and the opera La Bohème.
Parallels was a song by Chris Squire, he had not taken on with his solo album Fish Out of Water and was revised for Going for the One by the band.
The interface between the lines suggested by Moraz and the parts of Awaken, which were strongly influenced by the rest of the band is to listen to today is characterized During the initial part of diminished jazz chords, dominate in the rest of the major chords of the circle of fifths. The beginning of the guitar solo at 2:50 was initially part of a solo piece by Steve Howe.
The early version of Turn of the Century shows how closely the emergence of Going for the One is linked to the solo projects of the band members. The piece begins and ends with the same guitar runs as Surface Tension by Steve Howe's solo album The Steve Howe Album ( 1979), while a middle part (from 2:53 ) with sections of Silently Falling by Chris Squires solo album Fish out of Water almost is identical.
A bonus track on the Rhino re-release of the follow-up album Tormato, Everybody's Song ( an early version of Does It Really Happen? , Which was ultimately to listen to drama (1980)) comes from the time between Relayer and Going for the One, and was probably recorded with Moraz.

Singles

Wonderous Stories ( 3:45 ) / Parallels ( 5:52 ) 1977 Atlantic ATL 10999 (UK), reached in September 1977 # 7 in the UK charts
Going for the One ( 3:40 ) / Awaken pt 1 ( 6:40 ) 1977 Atlantic K 11047 (UK)
Going For The One / Turn of the Century 1977 ( UK)
Parallels / Wonderous Stories 1977 ( UK)
Awaken / No B-side 1977 ( UK)
Going For The One / Parallels Atlantic K 10985 (UK)
Wonderous Stories ( 3:45 ) / Wonderous Stories 1977 Atlantic 3416 (U.S.)
Wonderous Stories ( 3:45 ) / Awaken pt 1 ( 6:40 ) 1977 Atlantic 3416 (U.S.)
Turn of the Century / Wonderous Stories 1977 Atlantic K 10036 (B )

Cover

The cover is very futuristic, it shows a naked man standing with his back to the viewer in front of a photomontage of a modern skyline. The buildings date from Century City in Los Angeles. Man and buildings surround different colored patterned lines. The picture is probably for the contrast between the natural state of man (represented by the nakedness of the man ) and his highly cultivated, the former constraining state, represented by the repellent facades of skyscrapers.

For the first time since The Yes Album was not designed by fantasy artist Roger Dean Going for the One a Yes cover. The design took over instead Storm Thor Gershon company Hipgnosis. However, designed by Dean classic Yes logo was adopted. It was reduced to the outlines and integrated with the album title.

Review

Going for the One ( Atlantic K 50379 ) reached # 1 in the British charts and # 8 in the U.S..

The album is in many ways a break in the musical development of the band: Five years after Fragile (1972 ) were found for the first time more than four songs on a Yes studio album, the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans counted. The songs are much more tightly organized, apart from the long track Awaken there is no longer instrumental passages more who had the two previous albums still dominates. The pieces are much simpler structure, and Awaken, the harmonious ultimately largely based on a figure of three melodic tones and their reversals on the circle of fifths and. Going for the One is more apparent than any other Yes song ( with the exception of All good People from The Yes Album ( 1971) ) the classic rock and roll close, Parallels (even if it comes up with an interesting arrangement ) and Wonderous Stories are the simplest pieces, the Yes for Time and a Word (1970 ) had to offer. Wonderous Stories lent itself even to a small single success. On top of that the lyrics of the songs were now of course a few exceptions readily: Going for the One turned to sport, in Turn of the Century, a story was told. In addition, the cover not by Roger Dean, but by Hipgnosis came.

One problem with the album is the up to now even sound. The band had decided to produce themselves, which meant that each member have their own man had on the mixer. These works were monitored for a long time the first time not by Eddie Offord, but by John Timperley and his assistant David Richards ( who has also worked with Queen). The sonic quality of the album is below the standard that they were used in the 1970s by the band.

The album was released on July 7, 1977, from fans and critics alike of very well received, certainly not least, failed because of the absence experiments, but at the same doubt in part to Awaken, the Indemnified many fans of the band for the other posts too trendy geratenen. To date, it is many ( including Yes singer Jon Anderson) as gelungenstes Yes - piece.

The separation of Patrick Moraz appears only logical in this context. Such a fitting harmony album like Going for the One is with Moraz on keyboards as difficult to imagine as a Relayer with Wakeman participation. Rick Wakeman of major harmonies certain style fit significantly better to the music that Yes now made .

Concerts

Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman and White showed the virtuosity of their playing mood on the tour for the album. Many concerts sold out quickly. The positive mood of the album was successful weiterkommuniziert into the audience by the musicians.

Live

Live recordings of the pieces contained on Going for the One are on 9012Live: listening to The Solos, The Word Is Live, Keys to Ascension, The Masterworks, Yesshows and Keys to Ascension 2.

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