Roundabout - Yes (1971)

Roundabout by Yes from Fragile 1971 (2006 MFSL Remaster) Roundabout was released in the winter of 1971 on Yes's 4th studio album, Fragile. This album was the first to feature Rick Wakeman on keyboards and also the first to utilize the album art of Roger Dean that would in the future become so iconic and well identified with the band. This cover design by Roger Dean depicts a tiny planet on the front. On the back, the planet has begun to break up and the population is escaping in a wooden space glider -- a concept that was to inspire Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow. The album reached #7 in the UK and #4 in the US, and remained on the charts for an impressive 46 weeks. Even though I'd finished “Long Distance Runaround“ a couple of weeks earlier, I'd actually started working on this one first. I'd gone on to finish “Long Distance Runaround“ first using a few sequences I thought looked cool, but didn't really fit “Roundabout“. I got to really o