EVERYBODY LOVES YOU

"Everybody Loves You" is a ballad or love song with very good "Classical Music" vocals arrangements at the start and at the end of the song, sung by Anderson with Christopher Rainbow. It also has a brief bass guitar solo played by John Giblin. This song is the first from the Side Two of the old LP, followed by "Take Your Time".

"Everybody Loves You" was previously recorded with YES during the failed recording sessions of the band in Paris in late 1979 with record producer Roy Thomas Baker. The arrangement of the version that Anderson recorded with YES was different, particularly without the use of the "Classical music" vocals arrangments, and sounded somewhat "unfinished" like other songs from the same recording sessions. YES`s arrangement was maybe more Prog Rock oriented. Anderson`s version is more simple and maybe more Pop Rock / New Age in musical style. But these differences maybe showed the reasons why Anderson and the band split in 1980. The other members of YES (particularly Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) wanted a heavier sound for the band, a thing they achieved in their YES` "Drama" album in 1980, which was recorded without Anderson and Rick Wakeman. Anderson tended then to write more "soft" songs which maybe were not very liked by the rest of the members of the band (with the possible exception of Wakeman who left the band at the same time Anderson did it). So, Anderson re-recorded this song for his "Song of Seven" album, which sounds to me more like a "family life album" than anything else.

"Take Your Time" is another "soft" song with good lyrics and arrangements, but more simple than other songs that Anderson recorded with YES.