You're only as big as your last hit.

As Squire along with Alan White and Steve Howe co-owned the "Yes" name at the time[citation needed] the 1989 ABWH line-up without him (which contained Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe) could not record under that name. (In fact the electric bass at the time was often referred to as the "Fender. He has also been one of the main forces behind the band's music as well as "perhaps the most enigmatic" group member.

He is widely regarded as the dominant bass guitarist among the early seventies British progressive rock bands influencing peers and later generations of bassists with his incisive sound and elaborately contoured melodic bass lines. Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948) is an English bass guitarist singer guitarist and songwriter best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes.