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Yesyears is the first boxed set by English progressive rock band Yes, released in August 1991 on Atco Records. After the group left Atco for Arista Records when they became an eight-man formation in 1990, the deal gave Atco the right to the band's back catalogue, thus allowing them to release a career-spanning box set. Yesyears contains studio and live tracks from 1969 to 1991 with previously unreleased mixes and songs, digitally remastered by Joe Gastwirt.

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Type
Album · Compilation
Artist
Yes
First released
1991-08-06
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Music

Genre
Spoken Word
Year
2024
Tracks
4

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Instance of
album
Producer
Trevor Horn
Performer
Yes
Record label
Atco Records
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publication date
1991-08-06
cover art by
Roger Dean
form of creative work
compilation album
language of work or name
English language
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Yesyears is the first boxed set by English progressive rock band Yes, released in August 1991 on Atco Records. After the group left Atco for Arista Records when they became an eight-man formation in 1990, the deal gave Atco the right to the band's back catalogue, thus allowing them to release a career-spanning box set. Yesyears contains studio and live tracks from 1969 to 1991 with previously unreleased mixes and songs, digitally remastered by Joe Gastwirt.

One of the major attractions of Yesyears was its inclusion of rare material, including many previously unreleased songs, and a full-colour booklet detailing Yes's history. A cut-down 2-CD edition of Yesyears, titled Yesstory, was also made available, while Highlights: The Very Best of Yes, effectively a single CD version of the set, appeared in 1993. Yesyears was discontinued in the late 1990s, preceding the release of Rhino Records' In a Word: Yes (1969–), an updated 5-CD box set, in 2002. Most of the rare material found on Yesyears but not on In a Word would surface as bonus tracks on Rhino's reissues of Yes albums in 2003 and 2004.

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