Yes to Play 1971 Album ‘Fragile’ in Full on U.S. Tour

English progressive rock icons Yes have announced a new fall tour which will see them play their 1971 album Fragile in full.

Officially dubbed The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Series, the newly-announced run of shows will launch on Oct. 1 and sees the band performing a total of 31 dates until Nov. 16. Per a press release, the tour setlist will include Fragile full along with a number of other “classic cuts.”

Released in November 1971, Fragile was the fourth album from the group, and their third to be released in a 16-month span. It also became their most successful release up to that point. Expanding upon the initial chart success that The Yes Album brought earlier in the year (reaching No. 40 on the Billboard 200), Fragile would peak at No. 4, only being bested by one position thanks to Close to the Edge the following year.

The album’s lone single, “Roundabout,” would be issued in January 1972 and would reach No. 13 on the Hot 100. It remained their highest-charting single until “Owner of a Lonely Heart” hit No. 1 in 1983.

Fragile would also be supported by a 115-date album tour, with the group returning to the U.S. in November 1971 – mere months after wrapping up their debut visit to the country. As a press release for the new run of dates explains, the record’s initial tour was a vital part of the band’s history, and marked the moment when Yes “became a headline act in the US.”

“All the band’s albums had a unique feel and approach,” explained guitarist Steve Howe. “After The Yes Album, so many things came together, with [co-producer] Eddie Offord steering the proceedings. 

“While the band focused on only four main songs with full arrangements, each of us wrote and designed a solo piece, which was Bill [Bruford]’s great idea. It’s fairly ‘odd-ball,’ but we were at the height of our creativity, determined for success.

“It gave us confidence, further than our own in-stock belief, we’d crafted this unusual but noticeable musical twist to rock and what later became prog,” he added.

Of the original lineup which recorded Fragile in 1971, only Howe remains an active member. Drummer Bill Bruford would depart the group in 1992, while both vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman would depart in 2004. Bassist Chris Squire would remain with the band through all iterations until his passing in 2015.

Yes – The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Series

Oct. 1 – Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT
Oct. 2 – Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
Oct. 4 – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena, Atlantic City, NJ
Oct. 5 – The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
Oct. 7 – The Paramount, Huntington, NY
Oct. 8 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Oct. 9 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Oct. 11 – Appell Center for the Performing Arts, York, PA
Oct. 12 – Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA
Oct. 14 – Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 16 – Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC
Oct. 18 – Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL
Oct. 19 – Broward Center, Au-Rene Theater, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Oct. 21 – Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center, The Villages, FL
Oct. 22 – Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC
Oct. 24 – Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 25 – Graceland Soundstage, Memphis, TN
Oct. 27 – The Louisville Palace, Louisville, KY
Oct. 28 – Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
Oct. 30 – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN
Oct. 31 – Des Plaines Theatre, Des Plaines, IL
Nov. 1 – The Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL
Nov. 3  – The Orpheum Theater, Madison, WI
Nov. 4  – The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI
Nov. 6  – Stifel Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Nov. 7  – Steelhouse Omaha, Omaha, NE
Nov. 9  – Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO
Nov. 11 – Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Nov. 13 – YouTube Theater, Inglewood, CA
Nov. 14 – Viejas Casino, Alpine, CA
Nov. 16 – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV