Fragile Tour

Three songs from the tour (from unknown dates)—"Perpetual Change", "Long Distance Runaround", and "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)"—were included on the band's 1973 live album, Yessongs.{{citation|title=Yessongs liner notes|year=1973|publisher=Atlantic Recording Corporation|location=New York}}

The band's 3 October 1971 performance at the Hemel Hempstead Pavilion was recorded for television broadcast on BBC's Sounding Out. The recording was broadcast on 10 January 1972, shortly before the commencement of the second European leg of the tour.

The line-up for the tour unchanged throughout its duration, though sources are contradictory as to whether Wakeman was present for the first two concerts. The line-up was the sixth incarnation of Yes.{{cite book|last=Watkinson|first=David|title=Yes : perpetual change : thirty years of Yes|year=2000|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=0-85-965-297-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk/page/n9 8]|url=https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk|url-access=registration}} Rick Wakeman had joined the band the previous month, spending August and early September in recording sessions for Fragile at London's Advision Studios.{{cite book|last=Welch|first=Chris|title=Close to the edge : the story of Yes|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|location=London|isbn=0-7119-8041-1|page=114|edition=[Updated ed]}}{{cite book|last=Welch|first=Chris|title=Close to the edge : the story of Yes|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|location=London|isbn=0-7119-8041-1|page=115|edition=[Updated ed]}}

• Jon Anderson—lead vocal
• Steve Howe—guitars
• Chris Squire—bass guitar and vocals
• Rick Wakeman—keyboards
• Bill Bruford—drums

The tour saw the band play a total of 111 concerts in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and Belgium over four legs—two European legs and two North American legs.{{cite web |last=Whipple |first=Peter |title=The Fragile Tour |url=http://www.forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=3&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621160230/http://www.forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=3&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 June 2003 |publisher=Forgotten Yesterdays |access-date=29 June 2012 }}{{cite book|last=Watkinson|first=David|title=Yes : perpetual change : thirty years of Yes|year=2000|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=0-85-965-297-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk/page/106 106]|url=https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk/page/106}}

Support came from Jonathan Swift, Ten Years After, Mary Wells,{{cite book|last=Watkinson|first=David|title=Yes : perpetual change : thirty years of Yes|year=2000|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=0-85-965-297-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk/page/105 105]|url=https://archive.org/details/yesperpetualchan00watk/page/105}} Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The J. Geils Band, King Crimson, The Blues Project, and Shawn Phillips. At a 16 March 1972 concert in Tucson, Arizona, the band supported Black Sabbath.

Setlist:{{cite web |url=http://www.forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=3&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621160230/http://www.forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=3&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-06-21 |title=Fragile Tour – Tour Dates |date=2007-08-21 |access-date=2013-10-04 }}

• "Roundabout" (Anderson, Howe)
• "I've Seen All Good People" (Anderson, Squire)
• "Mood for a Day" (Howe)
• "Clap" (Howe)
• "Heart of the Sunrise" (Anderson, Squire, Bruford)
• Wakeman solo (Rick Wakeman)
• "Long Distance Runaround" (Anderson)
• "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" (Squire)
• "Perpetual Change" (Anderson, Squire)
• "Yours Is No Disgrace" (Anderson, Squire, Howe, Kaye, Bruford)
• "South Side of the Sky" (only occasionally after 2 October 1971) (Anderson, Squire)

Wilkinson (2003) lists only three shows from the tour as being cancelled. The first, on 9 October 1971 at the Edinburgh Empire Theatre, was cancelled after the PA system failed to arrive at the venue. A newspaper story at the time reported that the equipment van, travelling to Scotland from the Royal Festival Hall from the previous evening's concert, broke down in Birmingham. Similarly, two replacement vans also broke down. The band rescheduled the date for 23 October, with original tickets still valid. The band offered free posters to fans attending the 23 October show.

The second appearance to be cancelled was on 2 November at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California—the first show of the tour's North American leg. The concert was cancelled as the band's PA system was stolen.

Other sources state that it was the 8 November show at the San Francisco Winterland Ballroom that was cancelled due to the stolen PA system, implying that the band appeared that night at the Oakland Coliseum (with a rented sound system) instead.{{cite web|title=Yesgigs 1966–1980|url=http://www.m-ideas.com/sullivan/Yesgigs.html|publisher=Sullivan|access-date=30 June 2012|archive-date=20 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820094603/http://m-ideas.com/sullivan/Yesgigs.html|url-status=dead}} The concert in Richmond VA on 3 March 1972, was also cancelled, and supposedly the band played at the TownshipAuditorium in Columbia S Carolina instead. Additionally, reports exist of a show on 29 October in Rotterdam, Netherlands, that was also cancelled.

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