Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yes (kugiran)" in Malay language version.
... British art rock groups such as the Nice, Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, the Moody Blues, and Procol Harum ...}
A band meeting was convened. “I said, ‘Why don't we call ourselves Life?’ And Chris said, ‘World.’ And [guitarist] Peter Banks, bless him, said ‘Yes.’ And we said, ‘The Yes?’ He said, ‘No, no, no. Just Yes.’ So we said OK. And that’s how it started.”
A band meeting was convened. “I said, ‘Why don't we call ourselves Life?’ And Chris said, ‘World.’ And [guitarist] Peter Banks, bless him, said ‘Yes.’ And we said, ‘The Yes?’ He said, ‘No, no, no. Just Yes.’ So we said OK. And that’s how it started.”
The Quest is the first new YES studio album since 2014’s Heaven & Earth and is also the first featuring the lineup of Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen. And though The Quest first began to develop in the fall of 2019, it is really the culmination of the bond and working relationship that has steadily developed and bloomed over the course of several years of touring.