Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Tales from Topographic Oceans, Yessongs, Union, The Yes Album, Relayer, Drama, Fragile, The Return of the Manticore, The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection, Close to the Edge, Yesyears, In a Word: Yes, Yesstory, The Sentinel, Yesterdays, Greatest Hits '93-'03, Classic Yes, Grassroots, A Message from the Country - The Jeff Lynne Years 1968/1973, Music, Beginnings, Back to the Story, The Birthday Party, Yes Remixes, First Light, Hearts on Fire, Tale of the Tape, Industry Standard, Elysian Encounter, Baker Gurvitz Army. Excerpt: Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released on Atlantic Records. It is a double album released in December 1973 in most of the world and in January 1974 in North America. According to the documentary Classic Artists: Yes, Jon Anderson was originally going to call the album Tales From Turbographic Oceans. He mentioned the title while having dinner with Atlantic CEO Phil Carson, who noted that "turbographic" sounded like "topographic." Anderson liked the word and changed the album title accordingly. Tales from Topographic Oceans was recorded in studio 3 of Morgan Studios at the same time heavy metal band Black Sabbath was recording their fifth album, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, in studio 4. According to Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne's 2010 autobiography I Am Ozzy the band decorated their recording studio with model cows-complete with electronic udders-bales of hay, and a small barn, to give the room an "earthy" feel. The album's concept, a two-disc, four-piece work of symphonic length and scope (based on the Shastric scriptures, as found in a footnote within Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi), was their most ambitious to date. The four songs of the album...