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, and also the Syn, Flash, and Empire. Former '' Sniffin' Glue'' and '' NME'' journalist

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described Banks as "the architect of progressive music".

Biography

Early life

Banks' father was an optical mechanic and his mother a cleaner. He grew up in Barnet,

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, where he attended Barnet Secondary School and Barnet College of Further Education. When he was a young boy, his father bought him an

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. As a teenager, he also learned how to play the

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Early career

Banks started with the Nighthawks in 1963, and played his first concert at the New Barnet Pop Festival before leaving that band to join the Devil's Disciples in 1964. The band consisted of Banks on guitar, John Tite on vocals, Ray Alford on bass and Malcolm "Pinnie" Raye on drums. They recorded two songs on an acetate, Arthur Alexander's " You Better Move On" and

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's "

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" which would be a hit record for

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one year later. These two songs can be found on Banks' archival album ''Can I Play You Something''. According to

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, The Devil's Disciples used to play

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' first album in its entirety, just for the sake of it. About a year later, Banks joined The Syndicats, replacing their guitarist

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, who himself had replaced Steve Howe, who would later replace Banks in Yes. Banks then formed a new band with ex-the Selfs bassist

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, this band being the Syn. They were joined by keyboardist

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, Steve Nardelli on vocals as well as Gunnar Jökull Hákonarson on drums. They recorded two singles, "Created by Clive"/"Grounded" and "Flowerman"/"14 Hour Technicolour Dream" both in 1967 before calling it a day a year later. Squire meanwhile joined friends Clive Bayley (rhythm guitar) and Bob Hagger (drums) in

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, and Banks came to join that band. He briefly left the band, which was subsequently joined by singer

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and then drummer Bill Bruford replacing Hagger. During that short period of time, Banks played with the band Neat Change, recording one single, "I Lied to Aunty May" with Squire on tambourine and chorus. Banks then returned to Mabel Greer's Toyshop, and with the loss of Bayley and the addition of organist/pianist Tony Kaye, they started to write new music together, adding to a repertoire already including two songs already written, "Beyond and Before" by Squire and Bayley and "Sweetness" by Anderson, Bayley and Squire.

Career with Yes

The members searched for an appropriate name; Anderson suggested Life and Squire proposed World but all agreed on Banks' proposition of Yes.

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took notice of the band and, in 1969, got them into a studio to record their first album, ''

''. The next year another album was in progress (''

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'') but Anderson and Squire decided they wanted an orchestra backing the five musicians. The idea was not well received by Banks, and things got worse when the orchestral arrangements left the guitarist, as well as Tony Kaye, with little to do ( strings replaced their parts almost note-for-note). Once the album was released, a tour ensued; Banks was asked to leave the group, playing his last concert with Yes on 18 April 1970 at The Luton College of Technology. He was replaced by Steve Howe. In his autobiography, Steve Howe wrote that Banks "was an interesting guitarist to have to follow. He, too, adopted different guitar styles and had already set a scene I could relate to. He was a sweet guy and came to many of our early gigs. I can't think of many other ex-band members doing that - I mean, right after they've left the band." During Yes' 1991 Union tour, Kaye invited Banks to play during the encore at 15 May show at the Great Western Forum in

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, United States. Banks accepted the invitation and went to the show, but says he was told by Kaye that Howe did not want him to play. In August 1994, Banks was a featured guest at a Yes fan festival called Yestival. In 1995, he performed "Astral Traveller" on the Yes tribute album ''Tales from Yesterday''. In 1997, he coordinated the release of a Yes compilation titled '' Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970''. His liner notes described his early days with the band. Banks was also present at Yestival in July 1998. In 2006, he was interviewed for the Yes documentary '' Classic Artists: Yes''. Several music videos featuring him with Yes during their early days can be seen in '' The Lost Broadcasts'' DVD released in 2009.

Work with other bands

After leaving Yes, and while looking for some other musical projects, Banks supported

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for a brief period in late 1970, replacing their original guitarist

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. He guested as

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on an album by Chris Harwood, ''Nice To Meet Miss Christine'', with other musicians like Dave Lambert of

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on guitar,

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on keyboards, ex-

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Ian McDonald on sax and flute as well as ex-

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Pete York on percussion. In 1971 Banks, singer Colin Carter, bassist Ray Bennett and drummer Mike Hough formed Flash and sessions began for a first album for Sovereign/Capitol Records, with Tony Kaye guesting on keyboards. The record appeared in 1972 (called simply '' Flash'') and had a warm reception, with the single, "Small Beginnings" rising to #28 on the Billboard Charts. Subsequent to Kaye's involvement, Flash continued without a keyboardist. Flash recorded and released its second album (''In the Can'') in November that same year, with the singles "Lifetime" and "Children of the Universe" (from the first album) receiving significant airplay. A third album, ''Out of Our Hands'' was released in 1973. Due to on-going personal tensions within the band, including Banks meeting a new girlfriend, singer Sidonie Jordan, and wanting to form a band with her, Flash broke up while on tour in America in 1973. Parallel to work on the third Flash album, Banks and guitarist

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became friends and started to play and record together. Banks also played on an album by

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at that time. In 1973, simultaneous with the third and final Flash release, Capitol Records released ''Two Sides of Peter Banks''. Guest musicians included Akkerman, bassist John Wetton, drummer

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, guitarist

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and fellow Flash members Ray Bennett and Mike Hough. Around the summer of 1973, Banks played with the jazz-rock band called Zox & the Radar Boys, including Phil Collins (drums) and his mate from the Flaming Youth days Ronnie Caryl on guitar, Mike Piggott (violin) and John Howitt (bass). In 1973, Banks tried to form a new band, with singer and soon-to-be-wife, Sidney Foxx (real name Sidonie Jordan). Named Empire, Banks, Foxx, and various other band members recorded three albums up to 1979 which were unreleased.

played drums on one track and Preston Heyman (later to join Kate Bush) played drums on the rest (after a recommendation from Collins), John Giblin from

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played bass, and

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played organ on the first album, ''Mark I''. Ray Bennett of Flash was asked to join the band and initially agreed, but due to continuing tensions, declined. Banks and Foxx divorced, although Empire remained together as a band for some time after.

Later work

Work in the second half of the 1970s included a number of session appearances, on separate albums by

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and Jakob Frímann Magnússon. Banks made an appearance on ''Romeo Unchained'', a 1986 album by

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. He also worked with Ian Wallace in The Teabags, including Jackie Lomax on vocals and Kim Gardner on bass, the two played before with Tony Kaye's Badger,

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on guitar and

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on sax and flute. No recordings came out of that. In 1993, Banks released ''Instinct'', a solo album of

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tracks with him playing all the parts. Only a keyboard player, Gerald Goff, joined him for his next album, ''Self Contained'' (1995). In 1997, Banks was mainly responsible for the release of a

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Yes album, '' Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970'' (renamed ''Beyond and Before'' in the US), a collection of appearances at the BBC during 1969 and 1970, featuring the original line-up in all tracks and with a booklet containing the guitarist's account of those early days. Another archival release was ''Psychosync'', a live Flash recording made in 1973 for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and finally released in 1998. Also, between 1995 and 1997 all three Empire albums were released (one per year). Banks also collaborated in 1995's ''Tales from Yesterday'' (a Yes tribute album) performing a version of the song "Astral Traveller" with Robert Berry; appeared on the album ''Big Beats'' in 1997; and played on 1999's ''Encores, Legends and Paradox'', an

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tribute album. He contributed to 1999's ''Come Together People of Funk'' by Funky Monkey (including keyboardist Gerard Johnson who helped on a number of Banks' projects in the 1990s and who also worked with Banks' old bandmate Chris Squire). Those collaborations filled the gap in his own recording career, until 1999, when the album ''Reduction'' was issued. In 2000, Banks put out a collection of his oldest recordings (many previously unreleased) called ''Can I Play You Something?''. The front sleeve of this last record showed an eight-year-old Banks posing with his first guitar. The track listing includes some early recordings by The Syn, Mabel Greer's Toyshop, and Yes, including an early rendition of the song "Beyond and Before". A short track in the latter collection was called "Lima Loop". This is because

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, became a special place for Banks in recent years. Cecilia Quino, a Peruvian girl who was a Yes fan, met and later wed Banks. They married in Lima, where the bride's parents lived. They later divorced. Following an appearance by Banks and

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together at the 1998 edition of Yestival (a Yes fan festival), the pair played some sessions and the possibility of Banks joining

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was mooted. However, these sessions did not lead anywhere. Banks appeared in small concerts by new young local bands, including the Yes tribute band Fragile. Later recorded appearances by Banks included '' Jabberwocky'' (2000) and ''Hound of the Baskervilles'' (2002), a pair of albums recorded by

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(

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's son) and Clive Nolan. Rick Wakeman also narrates on the ''Jabberwocky'' album. Peter Banks also guested further on the Funky Monkey project. Banks was initially involved in a reunion of The Syn in 2004 but left the band. After early talks in 2004, he was also not included in the current Flash reunion, which made their debut return at the Prog Day Festival 2010 with Flash bassist Ray Bennett taking over on lead guitar. In late 2004, Banks formed a new improvising band, Harmony in Diversity, with Andrew Booker and Nick Cottam (who had been working together as duo Pulse Engine). They played a short UK tour in March 2006, and released an album called ''Trying''. Booker left the band soon after. He was replaced by David Speight and the band continued to play further dates in the UK and Hungary in 2007. Banks was also planning a related project with keyboardist Gonzalo Carrera. In Gibson Guitar's ''Lifestyle'' e-magazine of 3 February 2009, Banks is listed as one of the "10 Great Prog Rock Guitarists". According to the article, "Before there was Steve Howe, there was Peter Banks. Artistic differences between Banks and singer Jon Anderson prompted Banks's departure from Yes in 1970, but in his little-known '70s band, Flash, Banks used an ES-335 to create several should-have-been prog rock classics. "Lifetime", from Flash's ''In the Can'' album, is his tour-de-force."

Death

Banks died of heart failure on 7 March 2013 at his home in Barnet, London. He was reportedly found after failing to turn up for a scheduled recording session. He was 65.

Discography

With the Devil's Disciples

* 1964: "You Better Move On"/"For Your Love" - Acetate

With the Syn

- Singles: * 1967: "Created by Clive" / "Grounded" - Deram * 1967: "Flowerman" / "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" - Deram - Album: * 2005: ''Original Syn: Complete History of The Syn 1967-1969''

With Neat Change

* 1968: "I Lied to Aunty May" - Banks briefly played with that band, and they recorded a single with Chris Squire guesting on back vocals and tambourine

With Mabel Greer's Toyshop

* 1968: "Images of You and Me" / "Beyond and Before" / "Electric Funeral" / "Get Yourself Together" and "Jeanetta" were included on Peter Banks' album ''Can I Play You Something?''/''The Roots of Yes''

With Yes

- Studio albums: * 1969: ''

'' * 1970: ''

'' - Compilations : * 1974: '' Yesterdays'' (reissues from 1969 to 1970) * 1991: '' Yesyears'' (Yes boxed set including reissues) * 1997: '' Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970'' (also known as ''Beyond and Before'' and ''Astral Traveller'')

With Flash

* 1972: '' Flash'' (EMI-Sovereign UK / Cleopatra Records US; reed. 1993 CEMA Special Markets, & 2009 Esoteric Recordings label + bonus track) Tony Kaye guests on keyboards : Hammond organ, piano and ARP Synthesizer * 1972: ''In the Can'' (reed. 1993 CEMA & 2010 ER + bonus tracks) * 1973: ''Out of Our Hands'' (reed. 1993 CEMA & 2010 ER) * 1995: First three albums were edited on CD on One Way Records * 1997: ''Psychosync'' (1973 - live WLIR radio broadcast, ed. Blueprint) * 2013: ''In Public featuring Peter Banks'' (Limited Edition Complete Live Concert 1973, AdequatEsounds)

With Empire

* 1995: ''Mark I'', recorded 1974, with

on drums on (2 track) and John Giblin on bass * 1995: ''Mark II'', recorded 1977 * 1996: ''Mark III'', recorded 1978 * 2014: ''The Mars Tapes'', recorded 1979 * 2017: ''The Complete Recordings''

Solo

* 1973: '' Two Sides of Peter Banks'', with

, John Wetton,

, Ray Bennett and Mike Hough * 1994: ''Instinct'' * 1995: ''Self-Contained'' * 1997: ''Reduction'' * 1999: ''Can I Play You Something? (The Pre-Yes Years Recordings From 1964 to 1968)'', combining solo material with material by The Syn, The Devil's Disciples, Mabel Greer's Toyshop and Yes * 2018: ''The Self-Contained Trilogy'', re-release of ''Instinct'', ''Self-Contained'' and ''Reduction'' together * 2018: '' Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology'', compilation including previously unreleased material

With Harmony in Diversity

* 2006: ''Trying'' * 2018: ''The Complete Recordings''

With
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* 2020: ''

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'' - With Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Oliver Wakeman, Geoff Downes, Pat Mastelotto, etc.

Guest appearances

* 1970: ''Nice to Meet Miss Christine'', by Chris Harwood, with Dave Lambert (guitar), Tommy Eyre (keyboards), Ian MacDonald (saxophone & flute), Peter York (percussion) * 1971: ''Electric Shocks'' by

, with Peter Banks on two tracks ("Blue Baboon" and "Doctor Rock") * 1976: ''

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- Plays on "All God's Mornings" with Sydney Foxx on vocals. * 1976: ''Guitar Workshop Volume Two'' (two solo tracks) * 1978: ''Puttin' on the Style'', star tribute to

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* 1983: '' Can't Slow Down'' by

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- guitar solo on " Hello" (uncredited) * 1995: ''Tales from Yesterday'', Yes tribute album * 1997: ''Come Together People of Funk'', by Funky Monkey * 1999: '' Jabberwocky'', by Clive Nolan &

* 1999: ''Encore, Legends, & Paradox'', by various artists (project headed by Robert Berry and Trent Gardner, with 10 covers of

, by 23 musicians including John Wetton and some time

members (Banks, Igor Khoroshev,

)) * 2001: ''Marked for Madness'', by Michelle Young * 2001: ''Angels & Ghosts'', by Ray Bennett * 2002: ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', by Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman * 2002: ''Join Us in Tomorrow'', by Funky Monkey * 2006: ''Return to the Dark Side of the Moon'' * 2011: ''

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* 2011: ''Muso & Proud'', by dB-Infusion * 2012: ''The Prog Collective'', by The Prog Collective * 2012: ''Songs of the Century: An All-Star Tribute to Supertramp'' * 2012: ''Who Are You – An All-Star Tribute to The Who'' * 2013: '' In Extremis'', by

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* 2013: ''Epilogue'', by The Prog Collective * 2018: ''Undercover'', by Funky Monkey

References

External links

Official website

Official MySpace page

Harmony in Diversity

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