ABSTRACT
The ability to collaborate with a diverse range of musicians on a variety of often concurrent projects is a prerequisite for all successful record producers. The relative success of the Yes album, 90125, in 1983, and especially the chart-topping single 'Owner of a Lonely Heart', is surprising: that a band so firmly associated with progressive rock should produce a successful recording in a post-punk and anti-progressive rock climate; and that it should achieve success in the singles chart, which had traditionally been perceived as inappropriate to the group's musical aspirations. In terms of timbre the song is dominated by a few contrasting elements: guitar, bass and drums, the vocal lines and a number of samples. Although each of these timbres is relatively distinctive in its own right, these distinctions are strongly reinforced by a variety of production and arrangement techniques.
