Heart of the Sunrise Yes with a live cover of this song, which is included on their "Uncovered 2003-2005" official bootleg. Dance punk band LCD Soundsystem also paid tribute to this song during their final performance, blending it into their song "Tired". "Heart of the Sunrise" was used in: Heart of the Sunrise "Heart of the Sunrise" is a progressive rock song by British band Yes. It is the closing track on their fourth album, 1971's "Fragile". The compositional credits go to Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, and Chris Squire, though keyboardist Rick Wakeman contributed some uncredited sections. The song eventually rose to become the
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