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Yes founder and bassist Chris Squire dies
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 29 June 2015
Prog rockers Yes confirmed this weekend that the band’s co-founder and bassist Chris Squire has died, a month on from him revealing he was receiving treatment for acute erythroid leukaemia.
The band said in a statement: “It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder Chris Squire. Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona”.
Paying tribute to their late bassist, the band added: “For the entirety of Yes’s existence, Chris was the band’s linchpin and, in so many ways, the glue that held it together over all these years. Because of his phenomenal bass-playing prowess, Chris influenced countless bassists around the world, including many of today’s well-known artists”.
