Yes ~ Owner of a Lonely Heart ~ Lugano Jazz Festival ~ [2004] [1080p]

This video is from the Deluxe Edition of the "Songs from Tsongas" bluray / CD package. It includes the bonus show of the Lugano Jazz Festival played on July 8th, 2004 that was originally a TV / Satellite Swiss/Italian TV broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland. The full Lugano show is only available on the Japanese version of the Deluxe Edition, which this video was taken from. The international version is missing eight songs from the concert, many of which were some of the best of the show. The Japanese version is very difficult to find and can be quite expensive. I was lucky enough to find a dealer in Japan that had it and shipped it to me. The complete show is full on electric without the acoustic versions of some songs on the "Songs from Tsongas" bluray, which pleased me greatly! The Lugano concert was recorded in standard definition with 720x480 resolution. I have upscaled the video to be in 1920x1080 resolution for a better viewing experience. Yes were on their 35th anniversary tour in 2004, which was the last time they played with original singer Jon Anderson and classic-era keyboardist Rick Wakeman. They played their final show with Anderson and Wakeman in Monterrey, Mexico three months later. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is the opening track from the band's eleventh studio album "90215" recorded at SARM and AIR Studios in London, England from November 1982 - July 1983 & released on November 7, 1983. The lineup for Yes for this album was Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, & Alan White. When recording began in November at SARM Studios the group was known as Cinema, with Horn as producer. (When Jon Anderson joined the group in April 1983 the band name was changed to Yes) Written primarily by guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin, contributions were made to the final version by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, and producer Trevor Horn. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was released in October 1983, as the album's first single. It was a commercial success in the United States, becoming the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and its Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Per Jon Anderson: "The song was already finished, but there were no verses. They had tried some verses and it really wasn't working. They had the chorus, they had the arrangement. I came in and all the songs were virtually put together, but there was a lack of choruses here, verses there. I went in for three weeks with Trevor and sort of filled everything in. I remember sitting with Trevor Rabin and we started off, 'Move yourself, you always live your life never thinking of the future.' That was the line I wrote. And then he'd say, 'Prove yourself, win or loser.' And then he said, 'Jon, I've got to go. You carry on.' So I just carried on writing the lyrics to the verses. The chorus was already well organized by Trevor." Alan White recalled the recording of his drum part for the track to Uncut magazine September 2014: "I started with a full drum kit and Trevor Horn said, 'Take Alan's toms away.' So I had a base and snare, hi-hat and cymbals. Then they took the cymbals away, I was playing along with the track and they took the hi-hat away! I said, 'Wait a minute, guys...' Then we layered all the other stuff on top of it." There’s a sampled breakbeat in there, which makes “Owner Of A Lonely Heart” a crucial landmark in pop-music history. That jagged jumble of drums — the one that appears on the intro, and then again on the breakdown — comes directly from “Kool Is Back,” a 1971 instrumental Kool & The Gang cover from an obscure Indiana band called Funk Inc. Yes took the drum breakdown from the middle of “Kool Is Back,” sped it up, stripped it of its context, and used it as a burst of bracing chaos. This is a slightly abbreviated version of the song, with the outro lyrics not included. There are many interpretations of this song; so many that I don't think it would be advantageous for me to give my own. To be honest, I'm not quite sure I could make sense of the lyrics in totality! That said, the song sure grabbed a lot of people's attention. Sometimes obscurity adds to the sense of adventure to lyrics, and I believe this song fits the bill. That said, the owner of a lonely heart is much better than the owner of a broken heart... #MysticRhythmsLive