There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

Early career
Banks and Chris Squire first met when Banks joined a group called The Syn also including Andrew Jackman (keyboards) who in later years became an orchestral arranger for some Yes Chris Squire and Yes successor guitarist Steve Howe recordings. A few music videos featuring him with Yes during their early days can be seen in The Lost Broadcasts DVD released in 2009. He was 65.

For the keyboard player Peter Banks see the entry for the band After the Fire. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes. The BBC's Danny Baker and Big George often called Banks "The Architect of Progressive Music".