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Happy birthday, Jon Anderson. His distinctive voice sang lead on all those Yes albums. He also wrote a lot of their songs, such as...
posted by LAGuy @ 12:10 AM
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Urban Legend- He is well-known because DJs needed time to go to the bathroom.
So that's the real meaning of Long Distance Runaround.
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" isn't really an Anderson composition. He wrote some of the lyrics in the second verse, but none of the music.
He was also a big promoter of the nascent New Age movement in the 1970s; witness his lyrics in "Madrigal". (Unrelated to New Age music, of course!)
And if you dislike prog and love old movies, you might prefer "The Friends of Mister Cairo". LAGuy might get all the movie references; I think I know a majority of them.
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