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) lasted 55 minutes but it was reduced to 40 so it could fit the time constraints of an LP. Malone called the project a challenge and "completely different" to what he had been involved with previously. A&M Records had wanted Wakeman to select a group of known musicians to play in his rock band, but he opposed to the idea as he intended for the public to like the album for its music rather than the performers. Wakeman chose a group that he used to play with at the Valiant Trooper, a pub in Holmer Green in Buckinghamshire. "I'd played