Yes : Going For The One (2003 Remastered Expanded Edition)

IN THE GIVING 

OF MY EYES

TO SEE YOUR FACE

SOUND DID SILENCE ME

LEAVING NO TRACE

Going for the One

is the eighth

 studio album

 by the English

progressive 

rock band

Yes 

released on

 July 12 1977 

by Atlantic Records. 

After taking an 

extended break in activity

 in 1975

 for each member 

to record and release

 a solo album, 

and completing their

 subsequent 1976 tour, 

the band members became

tax exiles 

and relocated to 

Montreux, Switzerland, 

to record their next 

studio album at 

Mountain Studios. 

During the early 

writing and rehearsal stages, 

keyboardist 

Patrick Moraz

was dismissed from the group 

following creative 

and psychological pressures. 

This marked the return

 of former keyboardist 

Rick Wakeman, 

who had left Yes 

in 1974 

to pursue a solo career

 after differences 

surrounding the band's 

ambitious concept

 double album

Tales from Topographic Oceans

(1973).

The album represents a 

major shift in the band's

 musical and aesthetic style.

 In a departure from

 the extended or 

conceptual tracks 

that dominated their 

previous four studio albums,

Going for the One 

features shorter, 

more direct, 

and accessible songs

 written primarily by 

Jon Anderson, 

Steve Howe,

 and

Chris Squire, 

with the exception

 of the fifteen-minute 

closing track

 "Awaken". 

The album was solely produced

 by the band themselves,

 marking a formal split 

from their longtime

 producer and engineer 

Eddy Offord

alongside the hiring of a 

new engineering team. 

It also marked the end

 of their long-standing collaboration 

with cover artist 

Roger Dean, 

as the band commissioned 

Hipgnosis 

to create a stark, 

geometric design. 

Musically,

 the record introduces 

unique instrumentation,

 including 

Howe's use of a 

vachalia

and

pedal steel guitar work,

 Wakeman's use of a 

Polymoog synthesiser, 

and a church organ

 recorded via 

a telephone line 

from nearby Vevey.

Going for the One

received a positive response 

from music critics, 

who welcomed the band's 

energetic return to more

 melodic simplicity,

 though the stark design

 of the Hipgnosis sleeve 

drew mixed retrospective

 commentary. 

It was a major commercial success, 

reaching number one

 on the UK Albums Chart

for two weeks, 

number eight

 on the US 

Billboard 200, 

and peaking within

 the top ten across 

several European charts.

 Two singles 

were released to 

promote the album:

 the title track 

and

 "Wonderous Stories", 

the latter of which 

reached number seven

 in the United Kingdom

 to become the band's

 highest-charting single

 in the country. 

The album achieved 

gold certifications

 from both the British 

Phonographic Industry

 (BPI) 

and the Recording Industry 

Association of America

(RIAA) 

within a month of its release. 

The album has since been

 remastered and reissued 

multiple times

most notably in 2003 

with 

previously 

unreleased tracks

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