page_title: List of Yes band members
section_title: Former members
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yes band members / Members / Former members
caption_attribution_description: Tony Kaye with Yes, 1994, Chile
context_page_description: The following list details musicians who have been and are members of the English progressive rock band Yes since its formation in 1968. The band was split up between 1981 and 1983. Bassist Chris Squire was the only member to be part of every one of the band's incarnations until his death in 2015, which left the band without any original members.
context_section_description: Jon Anderson
  Active: 1968–1980, 1983–1988, 1990–2004
  Instruments: lead vocals, guitar, percussion, harp
  Occasional Instruments: keyboards, cuatro
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from Yes (1969) to Tormato (1978), Yesshows (1980), all Yes releases from 90125 (1983) to Magnification (2001), Union Live (2011), Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (2015)
  Chris Squire
  Active: 1968–1981, 1982–2004, 2008–2015 (his death)
  Instruments: bass guitar, backing vocals
  Occasional Instruments: piano, harmonica, bass pedals, timpani, lead vocals
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from Yes (1969) to Like It Is: Yes at the Mesa Arts Center (2015)
  Tony Kaye
  Active: 1968–1971, 1982–1983, 1983–1994
  Instruments: organ, piano
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from Yes (1969) to The Yes Album (1971), All Yes releases from 90125 (1983) to Talk (1994), The Word Is Live (2005), Yes 50 Live (2019)
  Bill Bruford
  Active: August–September 1968, November 1968–July 1972, 1990–1992
  Instruments: drums, percussion
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from Yes (1969) to Yessongs (1973), Union (1991), The Word Is Live (2005)
  Peter Banks
  Active: 1968–1970
  Instruments: guitar, backing vocals
  Release contributions: Yes (1969), Time and a Word (1970), Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970 (1997), The Word Is Live (2005)
  Tony O'Reilly
  Active: Sept. 1968–Nov. 1968
  Instruments: drums
  Release contributions: none
  Rick Wakeman
  Active: 1971–1974, 1976–1980, 1990–1992, 1995–1996, 2002–2004
  Instruments: keyboards
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from Fragile (1971) to Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), Going for the One (1977), Tormato (1978), Union (1991), Keys to Ascension (1996), Keys to Ascension 2 (1997), The Word Is Live (2005), Live at Montreux 2003 (2007), Union Live (2011) , & Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (2015)
  Patrick Moraz
  Active: 1974–1976
  Instruments: keyboards
  Release contributions: Relayer (1974), Yesshows (1980), The Word Is Live (2005), Yes 50 Live (2019)
  Trevor Horn
  Active: 1980–1981
  Instruments: lead vocals
  Occasional Instruments: bass, guitar, keyboards
  Release contributions: Drama (1980), The Word Is Live (2005)
  Non-member contributions: 90125 (1983) (producer, backing vocals) Big Generator (1987) (producer) Fly from Here (2011) (producer, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals) Fly from Here - Return Trip (2018) (producer, lead and backing vocals, additional keyboards, additional acoustic guitar)
  Trevor Rabin
  Active: 1982–1994
  Instruments: guitar, backing vocals, keyboards
  Occasional Instruments: lead vocals, programming
  Release contributions: all Yes releases from 90125 (1983) to Talk (1994), The Word Is Live (2005), Union Live (2011)
  Eddie Jobson
  Active: 1983
  Instruments: keyboards
  Release contributions: none
  Igor Khoroshev
  Active: 1997–2000
  Instruments: keyboards, backing vocals
  Occasional Instruments: cowbell
  Release contributions: The Ladder (1999), House of Yes: Live from House of Blues (2000), Magnification (live bonus tracks from 2004 reissue) (2001)
  Non-member contributions: Open Your Eyes (1997) (keyboards)
  Benoît David
  Active: 2008–2012
  Instruments: lead vocals
  Occasional Instruments: acoustic guitar, tambourine
  Release contributions: Fly from Here (2011), In the Present – Live from Lyon (2011), From a Page (2019)
  Oliver Wakeman
  Active: 2008–2011
  Instruments: keyboards
  Release contributions: In the Present – Live from Lyon (2011), From a Page (2019)
  Non-member contributions: Fly from Here (2011) (keyboards)
caption: Tony Kaye (c. 1994), keyboardist (1968-1971, 1982-1983, 1983-1994)
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