The story
British distinctive vocalist and lyricist best known as founding member and frontman of Yes and for his collaborations with Vangelis.
He was born as John Roy Anderson on 25th October 1944 in the town of Accrington, Lancashire, England, his parents being Albert and Kathleen Anderson. (He was later to drop the "h" from his first name.) He attended St. John's Infants School in Accrington, and made a tentative start to his musical career at an early age by playing the washboard in "Little John's Skiffle Group", which played songs by Lonnie Donegan among others.
Anderson left school at the age of fifteen, helping the family earn money and went through a series of jobs including working as a farm hand, a lorry driver, and a milkman.
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