Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman | |
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ARW performing in 2016.
Left to right: Trevor Rabin, Lou Molino III, Jon Anderson, Lee Pomeroy, Rick Wakeman. |
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Background information | |
Also known as | Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (2010–2017) |
Genres | Progressive rock |
Years active | 2010–present |
Associated acts | |
Website | yesfeaturingarw |
Members |
Jon Anderson Trevor Rabin Rick Wakeman |
Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman are a rock band formed in 2010 by singer Jon Anderson, guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin, and keyboardist Rick Wakeman, three former members of Yes. The three had previously worked together in Yes for the 1991–1992 Union Tour.
After working on new music since 2011, the band officially announced activity in January 2016 as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW). The album was put on hold to concentrate on touring; their debut worldwide tour, An Evening of Yes Music and More, began in October 2016 and will continue through 2017 with bassist Lee Pomeroy and drummer Lou Molino III. In April 2017, following the three members being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Yes, the band announced their new name, which they had already been using in European touring.
Singer Jon Anderson, singer and guitarist Trevor Rabin, and keyboardist Rick Wakeman were all former members of Yes. Anderson had co-founded Yes with bassist Chris Squire in 1968, and had been a member in two stints until 2008; Wakeman had been a member in five stints between 1971 and 2004; Rabin had been a member from 1983 to 1995. The only time the three had performed together in Yes was the 1991–92 Union Tour during the band's short time as an eight-member formation. Plans to have Wakeman play with Anderson and Rabin on the Yes studio album Talk (1994) had never materialised. To Wakeman, not playing on a Yes studio album with Rabin became one of his regrets. Away from Yes, each pair (Anderson and Rabin, Anderson and Wakeman, and Wakeman and Rabin) had worked together in various capacities.