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}} ''Big Generator'' is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band Yes. Released in 1987, it is the group's last studio album released on Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary label and the follow-up to their massively successful 1983 album ''90125''. ==Background== A laborious album to make, ''Big Generators sessions dragged on for two years, largely because of creative differences. Guitarist Trevor Rabin was aiming to progress beyond ''90125'', while founding lead vocalist Jon Anderson was beginning to yearn for more traditional Yes music. Trevor Horn, who was a major factor in the success of Yes' previous disc ''90125'', was part of the early recording sessions. However, he dropped out after a few months due in major part to his inability to get along with keyboardist Tony Kaye. In a 2011 interview with LineaRock Italy, Anderson stated that Horn had told Anderson to stay away from the rehearsal and recording sessions for three months, presumably so that Horn could develop material with the other band members. The band recorded some material in Italy ("Shoot High Aim Low"), moved to London to produce "Rhythm of Love", and finally to Los Angeles to produce the final tracks for the album. Rabin assumed the production duties after the departure of Horn, and is credited for pulling together the final line-up of music on the disc. The result was an album that was successful commercially, with two songs reaching the US Top 40: "Love Will Find a Way" (also a No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart) and "Rhythm of Love" (their last US Top 40 hit). The album was not as popular as ''90125'', and feeling that the band was going in a direction he did not want to pursue, Jon Anderson began working on other projects at the conclusion of the ''Big Generator'' tour in 1988 including a partial reformation with his Yes bandmates from the 1970s as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. Missing from the Yes "expanded and remastered" 2003/2004 series by Rhino/Warner (like ''Yessongs'', ''Yesshows'' and ''9012Live: The Solos''), ''Big Generator'' was finally remastered (with inverted stereo image) and expanded in 2009 by Isao Kikuchi, the album was published by Warner Music Japan as part of their "Yes SHM-CD Papersleeve" series. The album was finally reissued, remastered and expanded with bonus tracks internationally as a part of the box set ''The Studio Albums 1969-1987'', released 2 December 2013 internationally and 24 December 2013 in the US. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Generator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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