YES: The Fragile 2025 Tour

At these shows, the progressive rock titans will perform their iconic Fragile album in its entirety, along with classic cuts from their legendary body of work. The multi-platinum album features their signature songs “Roundabout,” “Long Distance Runaround,” and “Heart of the Sunrise.” Fragile, the band’s fourth studio album, was released in the UK in November 1971 and in the US in January 1972. The Fragile Tour is regarded as a key moment in YES’ history—it’s when the band became a headline act in the US.

“All the band’s albums had a unique feel and approach,” says Steve Howe. “After The Yes Album, so many things came together, with [co-producer] Eddie Offord steering the proceedings. While the band focused on only four main songs with full arrangements, each of us wrote and designed a solo piece, which was Bill [Bruford]’s great idea. It’s fairly ‘odd-ball,’ but we were at the height of our creativity, determined for success.”

Howe adds: “It gave us confidence, further than our own in-stock belief—we’d crafted this unusual but noticeable musical twist to rock and what later became prog.”

Fragile also marks the band’s first album to be designed by Roger Dean. He would go on to design many of YES’ future album covers, the band’s logo, and live stage sets. This striking union of music and design became essential to how YES’ sound and vision would be perceived. It also underlined how important artistic visuals were becoming in the rock world.

On The Fragile Tour 2025, YES will perform in front of a video wall featuring AI treatments of Dean’s art, bringing YES’ visual legacy into the 2020s.

Roger Dean art will be available in the merch area at all the shows. “Roger was and is quintessential to the look of Yes,” notes Howe. “He’s still creating great paintings and design—he has no competition.”