Description
Yes – Drama / Atlantic Audio CD / 7567-82685-2
UPC 075678268526
Drama is the tenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 18 August 1980 by Atlantic Records. It was their only album to feature Trevor Horn on lead vocals and the first with Geoff Downes on keyboards. This followed the departures of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman after attempts to record a new album in Paris and London had failed. Drama was recorded hurriedly with Horn and Downes, as a tour had already been booked before the change in personnel. The album marked a development in Yes' musical direction, combining the band's progressive signature with Horn and Downes' new wave sensibilities.
Drama was released to a mostly positive critical reception, with most welcoming the band's new sound. It peaked at No. 2 in the UK and No. 18 in the US, though it became their first album since 1971 not to reach gold certification by the RIAA, and their first to miss the top ten there since The Yes Album. "Into the Lens" was released as the album's sole single. Yes toured the album with a 1980 tour of North America and the UK, and were met with some negative reactions from British audiences over the line-up change. The group disbanded at its conclusion; Horn would collaborate with Yes as a producer, while Downes would rejoin the band as a full-time member in 2011. Drama was remastered in 2004 with previously unreleased bonus tracks, and it was performed live in its entirety for the first time in 2016.
| Label: | Atlantic – 7567-82685-2 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
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| Genre: | Rock |
| Style: | Prog Rock |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Machine Messiah | 10:27 | |
| 2 | White Car | 1:21 | |
| 3 | Does It Really Happen? | 6:34 | |
| 4 | Into The Lens | 8:31 | |
| 5 |
Run Through The Light |
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4:39 |
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| 6 | Tempus Fugit |
5:14 |
- Artwork – Roger Dean
- Bass, Vocals – Chris Squire
- Coordinator – Jim Halley, Phil Straight, Sandy Campbell
- Design [CD Redesign] – Gottlieb Bros., Roger Dean
- Design [Original] – Magnetic Storm Ltd.
- Drums, Vocals – Alan White
- Engineer – Hugh Padgham
- Engineer [Rak Studios] – Pete Schwier
- Engineer [Recording] – Gary Langan, Julian Mendelsohn
- Engineer [Roundhouse] – Ashley Howe
- Guitar – Steve Howe
- Keyboards, Vocoder – Geoff Downes
- Lacquer Cut By [Disc Cutting] – Sean Davis
- Management – Brian Lane
- Painting [Cover] – Roger Dean
- Photography By [Inside Cover] – David Clark
- Producer [Backing Tracks] – Eddie Offord
- Producer, Arranged By – Yes
- Remastered By – Joe Gastwirt
- Tape Op – George Chambers
- Vocals – Trevor Horn
- Written-By – Alan White, Chris Squire, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Trevor Horn
