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
Rick Wakeman on "Madman Across the Water" by Elton John, and "Changes", "Oh! You Pretty Things", and "Life on Mars?" for Bowie's album "Hunky Dory". Bowie invited Wakeman to his home and played the outline of the tracks for him to learn; Wakeman later called them "the finest selection of songs I have ever heard in one sitting in my entire life". He also developed music for the 1972 film, "Zee and Co." In late 1971, an album compiled of pop tunes played by Wakeman on the piano was released as "Piano Vibrations" by Polydor Records. Wakeman did not receive any royalties