Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948), is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album (with the exception of the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe material.) He is well known for his technical virtuosity and a "Bach/Baroque" sound on melodies.
He was born in Kingsbury, a suburb of northwest London, in E...
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Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948), is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album (with the exception of the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe material.) He is well known for his technical virtuosity and a "Bach/Baroque" sound on melodies.
He was born in Kingsbury, a suburb of northwest London, in England. His father was a cab driver and his mother a housewife. He was trained in the St Andrew's church choir as a young boy, beginning his musical career in the church's basement, along with his friend Andrew Jackman. When Squire was about sixteen, The Beatles and Paul McCartney were the catalyst that prompted him to consider a career in music and to take up the bass guitar. In 1964, he was suspended from school for "having long hair", and given money to get a haircut. Instead he went home, used the money for other things, and never returned...
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