In 1973, I knew YES were recording a new album. Melody Maker and Circus magizines had quoted Jon Anderson as saying that the band were getting back to the roots, the basics, and we waited. I bought the album the day it was released and hurried home. I was stunned. From the opening chant through the last audible strains of music, I had never heard anything to compare to this. This was not rock and roll. This was (and is) that generations finest hour of recorded music. Perhaps it will take another 25 years for the music industry to acknowlage this. Yet,in 25 years we may well hear Tales on public radio