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Yes: Rainbow Theatre, London

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 December 1973

A DISTURBING night for a Yes fan at London's Rainbow, when the group unveiled their new work Tales From Topographic Oceans. For despite, the applause that followed, despite the laudatory cries of "fantastic" from those around me, my own feelings were of having been drowned in the Topographic Ocean.

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