Beginnings is the title of Yes

Yes (band)

Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...

 guitarist Steve Howe

Steve Howe (guitarist)

Stephen James "Steve" Howe is an English guitarist, known for his work with the progressive rock group Yes...

's first solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

. It was released in 1975.

The five Yes band members each did a solo album in 1975/6 and then current Yes members Alan White

Alan White (Yes drummer)

Alan White is an English rock drummer known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes. White was also a member of the Plastic Ono Band, playing live in 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which was recorded and released three months later as Live Peace in Toronto 1969...

 and Patrick Moraz

Patrick Moraz

Patrick Philippe Moraz is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991...

 guest on Beginnings, while Howe guested on White's Ramshackled

Ramshackled

Ramshackled is the debut solo album by Alan White, drummer for British progressive rock band Yes. It was released in 1975 on Atlantic Records, during a period when all five of the Yes band members released solo albums.-About the album:White had worked with Pete Kirtley and Kenny Craddock in the...

album. The album also features ex-Yes bandmember and drummer Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford

William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...

 on "Pleasure Stole the Night" and "Break Away From It All". There are also members of the English prog-medieval rock band Gryphon

Gryphon (band)

Gryphon were a British progressive rock band of the 1970s, best known for their unusual Medieval sound and instrumentation.-Career:Multi-instrumentalist Richard Harvey and his fellow Royal College of Music graduate Brian Gulland, a woodwind player, began the group as an all-acoustic ensemble that...

, Graeme Taylor

Graeme Taylor

Graeme Taylor is a British electric guitarist.Taylor played lead guitar with 1970s medieval/rock band Gryphon, and leading folk rock bands including the Albion Band and Home Service...

, Malcolm Bennett, Dave Oberlé

Dave Oberlé

Dave Oberlé was percussionist and lead vocalist with the 1970s band Gryphon. After the band split in 1977, Oberlé went on to help launch the heavy rock magazine Kerrang!...

 on one of the songs.

Side one

1. "Doors of Sleep" (Steve Howe, Alice Meynell) – 4:08
2. "Australia" – 4:13
3. "The Nature of the Sea" – 3:57
4. "Lost Symphony" – 4:41

Side two

1. "Beginnings" (Steve Howe, orchestrated by Patrick Moraz) – 7:31
2. "Will o' the Wisp" – 6:00
3. "Ram" – 1:53
4. "Pleasure Stole the Night" – 2:57
5. "Break Away From It All" – 4:19

Personnel

• Steve Howe
  Steve Howe (guitarist)
  Stephen James "Steve" Howe is an English guitarist, known for his work with the progressive rock group Yes...
  
   – guitars, bass, steel, vocals, mandolin, Moog, organ
• Alan White
  Alan White (Yes drummer)
  Alan White is an English rock drummer known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes. White was also a member of the Plastic Ono Band, playing live in 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which was recorded and released three months later as Live Peace in Toronto 1969...
  
   – drums (1, 2, 4-6)
• Graeme Taylor
  Graeme Taylor
  Graeme Taylor is a British electric guitarist.Taylor played lead guitar with 1970s medieval/rock band Gryphon, and leading folk rock bands including the Albion Band and Home Service...
  
   – guitar (3)
• Malcolm Bennet – bass, flute (3, 8)
• Dave Oberlé
  Dave Oberlé
  Dave Oberlé was percussionist and lead vocalist with the 1970s band Gryphon. After the band split in 1977, Oberlé went on to help launch the heavy rock magazine Kerrang!...
  
   – drums (3)
• Colin Gibson
  Colin Gibson (musician)
  Colin Gibson is a bass player and composer.-Biography:Gibson and guitarist John Turnbull were childhood friends and played together in a band called The Primitive Sect, wth Bob Sergeant on organ. In summer 1966, Gibson and Turnbull joined unsigned, Newcastle band The Chosen Few...
  
   – bass (4)
• Patrick Moraz
  Patrick Moraz
  Patrick Philippe Moraz is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991...
  
   – piano, harpsichord, Moog, Mellotron (4-6)
• Bud Beadle – saxophone (4)
• Mick Eve – saxophone (4)
• Patrick Halling, William Reid – violin (5)
• John Meek – viola (5)
• Peter Halling – cello (5)
• Chris Laurence – double bass (5, 8)
• James Gregory – flute, piccolo (5)
• Sidney Sutcliffe – oboe (5)
• Gwyd Brooke – bassoon (5)
• Bill Bruford
  Bill Bruford
  William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
  
   – drums (8, 9)

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...  Pop Albums	63
1975	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	22

External links

• Yescography entry