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YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Steve Howe	Geoff Downes	Chris Squire Alan White
Billy Sherwood	Jon Davison	Rick Wakeman	Patrick Moraz	Trevor Rabin
Trevor Horn	Tony Kaye	Oliver Wakeman Jay Schellen	Igor Khoroshev	Bill Bruford
Peter Banks Benoît David	Asia	Arc of Life CIRCA:	Yes ft. Anderson Rabin Wakeman	Others associated with the band

I'm sort of sitting on a bunches of tracks that I've been working on for the past year. And I've got a couple of pretty good ones, I mean, if people are interested. I've got a great one of Tori Amos doing a Kendrick Lamar cover, that we did. It's turned out really well. Where we've turned, like, a rap tune into a song. Because I was looking for songs with really good lyrics and there aren't many and this particular tune [...] "Drank", it's got a brilliant lyric. I got Toyah singing "Relax". And Marc Almond singing "Love is a Battlefield" [...] I'm always doing stuff. [...] I don't know if anybody'll[?] listen to it. I think that's the fate of all old producers and all old artists is that they spend the latter years of their life making music that not too many people ever hear. But still you do it anyway, because you hear it.

“My daughter, who is a music business lawyer, keeps saying, ‘You’ve got to change the name, because there’s only one of you. It should be called the Buggle,’” Horn explained with a laugh.

In a Jan 2019 Facebook Q&A, Horn said, "I'm gonna do another Buggles track with Geoff. I don't know what. [...] We were thinking of trying to get Seal to sing on it [...] The problem is with Seal." In a Feb 2019 interview, Horn said, "Geoffrey and I are meeting up next month". He explained they were considering doing a new Buggles song for the 40th anniversary of "Video Killed the Radio Star" in autumn 2019. When someone tweeted about this news, saying Horn and Downes will be recording in Mar 2019, Downes re-tweeted them. Nothing emerged in late 2019 however.

In a Nov 2019 interview, Downes said, "I've been doing some stuff with Trevor... not a lot of stuff [...] but we've been touching on a few bits and pieces". Downes tweeted 7 Oct 2019:

Very nice to have my old Buggles chum, Trevor H at my studio down here in S. Wales today working on some new stuff together. 40 years ago we had just entered the UK chart at #10 with our debut Video Killed... 👍🏻 Let’s have some more of that folks, eh? 😃

In 2016, there were plans for re-issues and  possibly live work, although the Sep 2016 issue of Prog quoted their management as saying, "Nothing is set in stone." A new album also appeared to be in the works, as well as a musical based on "Video Killed the Radio Star" (see this subsection). In Feb 2016, Geoff Downes tweeted, "heading out to LA to do some work with my old chum, Trevor Horn. #thebuggles". Later that month came this: "Been really great working this week with my old Buggles buddy, Trevor H. Got some new tunes on the go! More news to follow..." In a late Mar 2016 interview with BBC Radio Oxford, after the interviewer talked about Yes, Asia and The Buggles, Downes, "I'm still involved with all three bands today. […] I was working with Trevor Horn a couple of weeks ago in L.A." And in this Apr 2016 interview: "I've been doing some more stuff with Trevor and the Buggles recently". In a Sep 2016 interview, Horn said, "We might be going out touring with The Buggles, me and Geoffrey, just the first two albums". A tweet in Dec 2016 from Downes said: "Down The Docklands this week working with my old Buggles chum, Trevor H. Expect to see some "shake-up" stuff coming your way!" In a Feb 2017 interview, Downes said, "I think Trevor and I may want to do something with The Buggles in the future." Asked on Twitter that month whether they were any closer to some Buggles gigs, he replied, "Not yet [...] but watch this space!" In an Apr 2017 interview, Downes said, "We still do stuff together as The Buggles. [...] We've been doing a bit of writing this last year [2016]." In a Jul 2017 interview, Horn said he is, "Currently [...] getting together another version of Video Killed the Radio Star, so that should be fun." In a Nov 2017 radio interview (The Magic Bus, Marlow FM, UK radio), Downes said, "I'm going to be working with Trevor Horn next week on a small project" that they have been working on for the "last year or so". He tweeted later in Nov 2017, "Great two days in the studio with my oldest and amazing chum, @Trevor_Horn_ CBE. Some killer songs and ideas in the mix. Says muchly that The Buggles still working together 40 years on!" Asked about keyboards, he followed this up with: "All very early vintage in our world. Rhodes, Solina, Minimoog, Clavinet, Polymoog, Prophet V, etc #thebuggles". To the Feb 2018 issue of Prog, Downes said, "I've been working with Trevor Horn on some stuff and we're thinking that maybe we might do some one-off shows with Buggles." In an early Mar 2018 interview, Downes said, "myself and Trevor Horn are trying to carry on with Buggles. We're kicking around a few ideas and we hope to release something." Asked about new Buggles material in Apr 2018 on Twitter, Downes replied, "There are a few things in the pipeline...that's all I can tell you right now". However, asked by a fan after his Nov 2018 show whether they were doing a third Buggles album, Horn said no, but then said he keeps calling Downes about doing something, implying live shows that could, he said, also include some Yes material. In a Jul 2019 interview, Downes said of Horn, "We've done a lit bit of writing here and there. Nothing major, but, er, I think that we're looking at re-visiting some of the ideas that we had, er, even going back to the '70s [...] it's always on his mind, it's always on my mind, that one day we will do something. [...] We've talked about maybe going out later this year [2019] [...] doing a few one-offs here and there [...] we do get together sometimes and put some bits and bobs together."

A Mar 2016 article quoted Downes as saying, "We're looking at releasing some of the old Buggles stuff at some point and we worked on another couple songs fairly recently[.] There's the option of maybe putting some more stuff out. [...] next year [2017] we might do some gigs. We'll take it as it comes, really." Although one of those prior quotes refers to "new tunes", Prog describes 2016 sessions as "to work up demos from around the making of [...] Adventures in Modern Recording"; they also say there will be further sessions in the autumn. Downes is quoted: "Trevor and I were in Los Angeles working for a week on some stuff, such as our old track Dion." While Horn says he wants to re-make "Vermillion Sands" as "a duet with a [...] jazz singer." Downes was described as saying an album of new material "can't be ruled out".

Trevor Horn invited Toyah & Robert to sit in with The TH Band at Cropredy yesterday evening with Are You Going My Way, the Lenny Kravitz classic, after seeing this on Toyah & Robert's Sunday Lunch. And T&R had a blast! (I don't usually comment on behalf of my Wife, but on this occasion I speak with authority). The TH Band is superb

1. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Reimagined intro, string section only
2. "Two Tribes", Ryan Molloy (ex-Frankie Goes to Hollywood, worked with Producers) lead vocals
3. "Video Killed the Radio Star" (with "Check It Out" insert), Horn lead vocals
4. "Dancing in the Dark", Holmes lead vocals
5. "Different for Girls", Steve Hogarth (Marillion) lead vocals
6. "Ashes to Ashes", Hogarth lead vocals
7. "Rubber Bullets", Creme lead vocals, no strings
8. "All the Things She Said", Chase/Holmes lead vocals, Creme second bass, no strings
9. "Slave to the Rhythm", Chase/Cardle lead vocals
10. "The Power of Love", Cardle lead vocals
11. "Living in the Plastic Age", Horn lead vocals
    
12. "What's Love Got to Do With It?", Molloy lead vocals
13. "Take on Me", Horn/Molloy/Cardle lead vocals
14. "Cry", Molloy lead vocals, no strings
15. "Blue Monday", Jimmie Wood lead vocals & harmonica
    
16. "Brothers in Arms", Horn lead vocals, Mick MacNeil (ex-Simple Minds) accordion
17. "Girls on Film", Chase/Holmes lead vocals
18. "I'm Not in Love", Cardle lead vocals, Creme keys
19. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Molloy lead vocals
20. "Owner of a Lonely Heart", Horn lead vocals, Creme bass, Cardle additional backing vocals
21. "Relax", Molloy lead vocals
22. "Money for Nothing", Molloy lead vocals, Wood harmonica
    

The show was filmed: in the Jan 2019 Facebook Q&A, Horn said that they are "still editing at the moment" and then that he will "figure out what to do with it".

(Dire Straits) Legacy
DSL* Dire Straits Legacy (YouTube) is a band led by former Dire Straits guitarist Phil Palmer (Trevor Horn Band, Eric Clapton, worked with Cher). Several other former members of Dire Straits are or were involved in the project. Live, they mostly play Dire Straits material, but they also released an album of new material as Legacy: 3 Chord Trick (2017). Trevor Horn is on bass and backing vocals. The rest of the band are usually Palmer (guitar, vocals, musical director), Alan Clark (Eric Clapton, ex-Dire Straits, ex-Tina Turner; piano, Hammond B3), Marco Caviglia (vocals, lead guitar), Primiano Di Biase (keys), Mel Collins (King Crimson, worked with Dire Straits, Chris Squire, Eric Clapton; sax), Danny Cummings (ex-Dire Straits, ex-Mark Knopfler, ex-Tina Turner; percussion, vocals) and Cristiano Micalizza (worked with Eros Ramazzotti, Max Gazzé; drums). (Jack Sonni, who died 30 Aug 2023, was previously in the band too.) However, the line-up does vary on some tour legs. The band tours regularly, including Europe, and North and South America in 2023. They played 10 Brazilian dates in May 2023, 6 European dates across Jul-Sep 2023 (9 Sep, Norway, sold out), and 10 US dates in Sep. Nov and Dec 2023 sees 3 dates in Germany, 1 in China and 9 in Italy (30 Nov, Rome, sold out).

The band have further dates advertised, but these appear to be without Horn, although he remains associated with the band. They play New Zealand and Australia Dec 2023/Jan 2024, with a line-up of Palmer, Clark, Cummings, Collins, Di Biase, Caviglia, Steve Walters (worked with George Michael; bass) and Alex Polifrone (drums). There are then 7 European dates Mar 2024: these seem to be with Palmer, Clark, Cummings, Collins, Di Biase, Caviglia, Walters and Micalizza. They also play Rome, Italy on 15 Apr 2024 and 2 Greek dates Jun 2024. Promo for Greece implies Walters will again be on bass.

The band played Europe and then North America in 2022. The 21 May 2022 set was all Dire Straits material: [SPOILERS—highlight to read] "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Expresso Love", "Walk of Life", "Setting Me Up", "Private Investigations", "Tunnel of Love", "Romeo and Juliet", "Down to the Waterline", "The Bug", "Your Latest Trick", "Telegraph Road", "Brothers in Arms", "Sultans of Swing", "Solid Rock", "Money for Nothing", "So Far Away". They played "On Every Street" as an alternate second encore the previous night. North American dates in Aug/Sep 2022 included "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

Musicals & soundtracks
Horn and "Video Killed the Radio Star" co-writer Bruce Woolley have, for a long time, been developing a musical, provisionally called The Robot Sings; Mar 2017 reports described it as in "early initial development", although in an Oct 2018 interview, Horn said that the pair had been working on the material much longer, explaining that the track "The Happy Worker", used on 1992's "Toys" soundtrack, comes from this project. This appears to be the project that the Sep 2016 issue of Prog called Mirrors on the Sea and indeed probably the project that Horn mentioned in a Yahoo chat in Oct 1999 ("I'm writing a musical [...] about Robots"). 2017 reporting had that the musical will feature "Video Killed the Radio Star" (which was by Woolley, Horn and Downes) and original music. Geoff Downes was contributing additional music, the script is by Jack Woolley, with graphic designer and illustrator Paul Sizer also involved. The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest: it entails a world where robots obediently serve humans and reflects the work of Brain Aldiss, JG Ballard and Isaac Asimov. An orphan, Jay, see his robot guardian shut down: his attempts to save her could lead to reconciliation between robots and humans, or to war. The 2018 interview was in Italian and has Horn saying:

Sono anni che tento di scriverlo, ma credo di non essere portato e porta via troppo tempo. A questo punto credo che non lo faremo più e che io e Bruce pubblicheremo un album con le canzoni che abbiamo composto. Uscirà a nome nostro… o qualcosa del genere.