Conspiracy (band)

Conspiracy
Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood performing with Yes in 1998, later to form Conspiracy
Background information
Origin	United States
Genres	Progressive rock
Years active	1992–2004
Labels	Eagle (UK) InsideOut Cleopatra (U.S.)
Associated acts	Yes, Circa
Website	ConspiracyMusic.net
Past members	Chris Squire Billy Sherwood Jay Schellen Michael Sherwood

Conspiracy was a progressive rock band founded by Chris Squire (then bassist in Yes) and Billy Sherwood (formerly and subsequently of Yes). The band released two albums: Conspiracy (2000) and The Unknown (2003), and a live DVD (2006).

In the late 1980s, Yes' original lead singer Jon Anderson had left the group to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe with three other former Yes members. Chris Squire brought Billy Sherwood, a young musician he had met, to work with the group as a possible new lead singer. With Trevor Rabin also absent for a time (concentrating on his solo work), a line-up of the three remaining Yesmen—Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye—plus Sherwood and guitarist Bruce Gowdy, Sherwood's band mate in World Trade, began rehearsing together. Rabin subsequently returned to the band and demos were recorded with a line-up of Squire, White, Kaye, Rabin and Sherwood.

Squire and Sherwood had formed a strong writing partnership, but Sherwood was not officially admitted to Yes. A reunion with Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe left no official role for Sherwood, although one Squire/Sherwood composition, "The More We Live—Let Go", was released on the Yes album Union (1991).

Having written a body of work, Squire and Sherwood went on a brief US tour in 1992 under the name The Chris Squire Experiment. The other musicians in the band were White on drums, Jimmy Haun on guitar (who had played much of the guitar on Union), Steve Porcaro on keyboards and Mark T. Williams on percussion.

Further collaborative work by Squire and Sherwood cropped up: "Say Goodbye" appeared on Euphoria, the second World Trade album while "Love Conquers All", a Yes demo they had written, was released on the YesYears collection.