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
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (album) Wakeman wished to make an album that told a story with its music, something that he had been inspired to do so since his father took him to see a performance of the symphonic fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev which features a narrator telling the story and an orchestra illustrating the action. Wakeman had wanted to do an orchestral rock piece based on the 1864 science fiction novel "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne as early as November 1971, but he put the project on hold until he had finished recording "The