Yes to play the 1971 album ‘Fragile’ fully on American tour

English progressive rock icons Yes have announced a new autumn tour that will see them playing their albums from 1971 Fragile fully.

Officially called the fragile tour 2025, the album series, the newly announced show of shows will be launched on October 1 and sees the band performing a total of 31 dates until November 16. Per press release, Tour setlist will include Fragile Full with a number of other “classic cuts.”

Published in November 1971, Fragile was the fourth album from the group and their third was released for a 16-month period. It also became their most successful release up to that point. Expansion of the initial card success that The Yes Album brought earlier this year (when No. 40 on Billboard 200), Fragile would top on # 4, only become the best of a position thanks to Close to the edge The year after.

The album’s lonely single, “Roundabout”, would be issued in January 1972 and reached No. 13 on the Hot 100. It remained their highest marking single until “owner of a lonely heart” hit # 1 in 1983.

Fragile Would also be supported by a 115-date album tour, with the group returning to the United States in November 1971-Kun months after wrapping their debut visits in the country. As a press release for the new dates explains, the original tour of the record was an important part of the band’s history and marked the moment when yes “became a headline in the US.”

“All the band’s albums had a unique feeling and approach,” explained guitarist Steve Howe. “After The Yes Albumso many things came along with [co-producer] Eddie Offford controls the procedure.

“While the band only focused on four main songs with full arrangements, wrote and designed each of us a solo piece that was Bill [Bruford]’s good idea. It’s pretty ‘odd ball’, but we were at the height of our creativity, determined for success.

“It gave us confidence, longer than our own faith in stock, we would designed this unusual but noticeable musical vri to rock, and what later became prog,” he added.

Of the original lineup that recorded Fragile In 1971, only HOWE is still an active member. Drummer Bill Bruford left the group in 1992, while both vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman would travel in 2004. Bassist Chris Squire would remain with the band through all iterations until his passing in 2015.

Yes – The Fragile Tour 2025, album series

1 October – Toyota Oakdale Theater, Wallingford, CT
October 2 – Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
4th October – Hard Rock Live in Etess Arena, Atlantic City, NJ
5. October – Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New
October 7 – The Paramount, Huntington, New
8th October – Keswick Theater, Glenside, Pa
9. October – Keswick Theater, Glenside, Pa
11 October – Appell Center for Performing Arts, York, Pa
12 October – Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, Pa
14 October – Warner Theater, Washington, DC
16 October – Carolina Theater, Durham, NC
18 October – Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Fl
19 October-Broward Center, Au-Ren Theater, FT Lauderdale, fl
October 21 – Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center, The Villages, Fl
October 22 – Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC
24 October-Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA
25 October – Graceland Soundstage, Memphis, TN
October 27 – Louisville Palace, Louisville, Ky
October 28 – Taft Theater, Cincinnati, Oh
30 October – Murat Theater in the Old National Center, Indianapolis, in
31 October – Des Plaines Theater, the Plaines, IL
November 1 – Arcada Theater, St. Charles, Il
November 3 – Orpheum Theater, Madison, Wi
November 4th – The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, Wi
November 6 – Stifel Theater, St. Louis, mo
November 7 – Steelhouse Omaha, Omaha, NE
9. November – Paramount Theater, Denver, Co
November 11 – Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
November 13 – YouTube Theater, Inglewood, CA
November 14 – Viejas Casino, Alpine, CA
November 16 – Grand Theater at Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV