Peter Banks, one of the founders of the popular British rock band Yes, died on March 7 at his home in London. He was 65.
The cause was heart failure, according to an announcement on the Web site of Flash, the band he formed after leaving Yes in the early 1970s.
Mr. Banks, a guitarist influenced as much by jazz as by rock, formed Yes in 1968 with the bassist Chris Squire, the singer Jon Anderson, the keyboardist Tony Kaye and the drummer Bill Bruford. The bands name was Mr. Bankss idea. -- NYT
WFMU played a slew of Peter Banks music just now. First I heard.
The cause was heart failure, according to an announcement on the Web site of Flash, the band he formed after leaving Yes in the early 1970s.
Mr. Banks, a guitarist influenced as much by jazz as by rock, formed Yes in 1968 with the bassist Chris Squire, the singer Jon Anderson, the keyboardist Tony Kaye and the drummer Bill Bruford. The bands name was Mr. Bankss idea. -- NYT
WFMU played a slew of Peter Banks music just now. First I heard.
