William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944) is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s. The groups for whom he did the most art are the English rock bands Yes and Asia. …

As a lasting tribute to the musical genius Chris Squire and the band he christened, we’ve put together a top ten of Yes album covers. Because incredible art, just like music is eternal…

While many of the most famous Yes album covers came from Dean’s genius, a few notable exceptions like Big Generator and Going for the One added variety to the visual catalog of the band. This list showcases some of the greatest Yes album covers, each a testament to the band’s artistic vision and Dean’s unparalleled talent.

These islands first appeared in his work in 1971, in the painting used for the cover of the Fragile album for Yes. Then they were fragments of a world breaking up. The islands recur in the painting for The Flights of Icarus, an illustrated book published by Paper Tiger in 1976

2024年8月31日 · From megalithic rocks that echo with ancient mysteries to surrealistic vistas that transport us to other worlds, the mind-bending visuals that make up the best Yes album covers have each played a vital role in shaping the group’s music.

2016年12月14日 · Although Roger Dean had created sleeves for a number of other bands during the late sixties, it was his collaborations with Yes which brought his other-worldly designs to the fore and became a crucial element in the packaging of that band’s early seventies releases.

Soon after his collaboration with Osibisa, Dean was commissioned to produce a painting for the band Yes. This painting, the cover image for the album Fragile, marked the beginning of a forty-seven year association between them, and Dean's iconic logo became the …

Roger Dean is most famous for his album cover art created for the British progressive rock band Yes. Dean's first album cover work was in 1968 for the band Gun and by 1971 Dean was working on several album covers for progressive rock bands such as Atomic Rooster, Lighthouse, Gentle Giant, Osibisa, and Yes.

This fantasy-themed masterpiece was the cover of Yes' seventh album, Relayer , the only studio album to feature Patrick Moraz, who replaced keyboardist Rick Wakeman earlier in the year. The prog rock masterpiece was recorded at bassist Chris Squire's home in Virginia Water, Surrey, UK from August-October 1974.