Chris Squire, the co-founder and longtime bassist of prog rock icons Yes and the only member of the group to feature on every studio album, has passed away just over a month after revealing that he was suffering from a rare form of leukemia. Squire was 67. Current Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes first tweeted the news, "Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire."Yes has been one of my favorite bands for decades, since my brother Paul taped a copy of Close to the Edge for me when I was ten. I saw them play in Atlanta, in March of this year, just after the recent studio album, Heaven and Earth came out. This is very sad.
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