Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman Rabin, Rick Wakeman, a name that had been used on various promotional materials for the prior European leg of touring. The band kicked off their second tour, named to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Yes, in June 2018. The initial plan was for the group to perform 100 dates worldwide, but Rabin resisted the idea and has implied otherwise. The tour is scheduled to run through September 2018. A studio album has been in progress since April 2011, which began when Anderson and Rabin exchanged musical ideas online by sharing music files recorded at their home studios, to which Wakeman
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (album) dedicated for Henry himself, but Wakeman had recorded the tracks on the wives first and used up the available space on a vinyl record. He decided to leave the Henry track and rename the album accordingly. When the album was finished, its final production cost had reached around £25,000. Wakeman described working on it as "difficult and cumbersome", but said the project was eventually a rewarding one. He was excited when it came to presenting the album to A&M management at their London office, which included a lawyer who represented the label's US division. After the album was played in