South Side of the Sky heard on the special edition third disc of their album "Snow". A cover of this song, with vocal contributions by Jon Anderson, appears as the first track on Glass Hammer's 2007 album "Culture of Ascent," a concept album about mountain climbing in the Himalayas. South Side of the Sky "South Side of the Sky" is a song by progressive rock band Yes from their album "Fragile". It opens with the sound of a howling wind, then the song starts after a thunder-strike, bursting into a heavy, riff-dominated rock song. At around 2:08, Rick Wakeman's piano comes in along with another
Rick Wakeman Wakeman left from the Ronnie Smith group and for several months, played in a pub band named the Spinning Wheel. In 1970, Wakeman performed on "Seasons" by Magna Carta, and records by Brotherhood of Man, Paper Bubble, Shawn Phillips, and White Plains. He soon became disillusioned with session work, "I was getting good bread, but I wasn't getting a chance to be part of the music". Wakeman's prominence rose during his tenure with the folk rock group Strawbs from 1969 to 1971. He first played the piano for them as a session on "Dragonfly", the first album released with Wakeman's