Songoftheday 11/16/15 - Innocence no answer to your breaking heart, if the situation sometimes falls apart...

"Rhythm Of Love" - Yes
from the album Big Generator (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1

Today's Song of the Day is by the British progressive rock group Yes, whose 1987 album Big Generator returned them to the American pop top-40 with "Love Will Find A Way". The second single from the record was the massive-sounding "Rhythm Of Love", written by band members Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, and lead singer Jon Anderson. The Beach Boys-esque vocal acappella lead-in was a nice touch...

"Rhythm Of Love" became their sixth and most recent top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in February of 1988. The single did much better on rock radio, climbing all the way to #2. After the tour behind this album, the band fractured apart, with Anderson joining drummer Bill Bruford, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and guitarist Steve Howe in a side project named after the quartet's surnames. The band had a reunion of sorts in 1991 when the ABWH and the "traditional" remainder of Yes (Rabin, Squire, Kaye, and drummer AlanWhite) released an album under the title Union, though only Anderson was the sole player on all of the tracks, while the other two factions played separate selections. One of those, "Lift Me Up", was a huge rock radio hit, spending six weeks on top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and became their most recent Hot 100 appearance at #86. By 1994, the band was whittled down to Anderson, Squire, Rabin, Kaye, and White, and their Talk album's "The Calling" peaked at #3 on the rock chart. Three years later came Open Your Eyes which included engineer Billy Sherwood on keys, and the title track was their most recent chart appearance at #33 on the rock chart. The band has continued to record and tour in various line incarnations, with Anderson leaving in 2008 (with Sherwood taking over on lead vocals), and their most recent studio album, Heaven & Earth, reaching the top-40 on the albums chart in America. Sadly, band staple Chris Squire passed away this past May from leukemia.

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Here's Yes on their Union tour performing the song...

...and again in 1994 supporting the Talk album...

...and finally, from a show in Budapest in 1998...

Up tomorrow: the Material Girl digs up a tossed-off nugget for a little attention.