Roundabout (song)
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| Single by Yes from the album Fragile |
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| B-side | "Long Distance Runaround" | ||||
| Released | January, 1972 | ||||
| Format | 7" 45 rpm | ||||
| Recorded | 1971 | ||||
| Genre | Progressive Rock | ||||
| Length | 8:29 (full-length version)
3:27 (single edit) 8:33 (Early Rough Mix) |
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| Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jon Anderson, Steve Howe | ||||
| Producer | Yes, Eddie Offord | ||||
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"Roundabout" is the track which opens the 1971 album Fragile produced by British progressive rock band Yes. In 1972, an edited version of the song was released as a single with "Long Distance Runaround" on the B side.[1] The single has been listed at #15 on one list of 1972s best songs,[2] and "Roundabout" has become one of the best-known songs by Yes. "Roundabout" was written by Jon Anderson and Steve Howe.
Although the song's cryptic lyrics are believed by some to have philosophical themes, Anderson says that the words simply came to him while driving to the studio one early morning.
Howe's use of octave harmonics on the acoustic guitar introduction of the song, plucking the four notes that would comprise an Em chord on an open guitar, has become one of his signature pieces of guitar work. In the film School of Rock, Fragile is given to the keyboardist Lawrence as he is told to listen to the keyboard solo on "Roundabout".
An acoustic arrangement of "Roundabout" was recorded for The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection.
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