The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea ...

From The Yes Album through to Tales From Topographic Oceans ... it won’t work unless you all get on. Alan White: The first time Patrick played with us, he had this jazzy, prog kind of intro ...

In that same golden period they recorded and released genre-defining albums The Yes Album, Fragile and Close ... Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, where he first met Jon Anderson and guitarist Peter ...