2022 finally gave us the first full-scale Download Festival since 2019. Despite battling through all the trials and tribulations of the last couple of years, Download managed to not only return, but came back better and stronger than ever.
Within eighteen months, three British musicians went from virtual obscurity to being part of the best known rock band in the world. By the end of 1971, Led Zeppelin IV, on pre-sales, went to #1 all over the world.
Unequivocally the defining progressive rock album of 1971, The Yes Album was the collected batch of music that brought Yes from promising up comers to international superstars. Most of the songs here are still the mainstay of their live show 50 years later.