Old music: Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart

Never mind Art of Noise or ABC, it was Yes who provided the finest showcase for Trevor Horn's 'box of tricks'Reading on mobile? Watch hereA car key turning the ignition, a disembodied female "Hey!", and three descending sampled orchestra stabs: that was how the future sounded in 1984 on the Art of Noise's genuinely groundbreaking Close (to the Edit). Probably the first hit single to be composed "in the box" from a grab bag of samples, the clue to the provenance of this mysterious, arty record la...

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