I got to see them in the round on this tour, and YES when they played this song every nerve ending in my body was on fire and tears filled my eyes, and His son was there and it was pure magic. There are no words to describe how much I Love YES
They played eight nights in the garden and I was fortunate to see them 7 Donovan was the opening act who was the first one to come out with stage in the round was unfortunately bood off the first night they want they're one of the few bands that sound as good live as on their albums I have two sons and one of them would call them the yesses they are a magical band
johnamos41 was there as well, more than once at the empire pool!, think this was the time they put an extra show on the afternoon, drove back to Newcastle sated until the next time . . . . .
One of my favorite Yes songs, just the cheerfulness and lyrics are so awesome (the original definition) and that Bass line with Howe's guitar just make this tune so Magical
Here the art of "Yes" shines in particular in the extraordinary care of the arrangement: everything - even the very calibrated choice of instrumental timbres; the delicate filigree of vocal polyphonies; the very apt and characteristic preciousness of the repeated rumble of a low voice that emerges slightly, from a certain point, here and there - is perfectly conceived to highlight an ethereal and otherworldly atmosphere, on the wings of a boundless imagination that only Jon's unique voice could express.
@@calebsj It was the mixing they hated not the album. I love the compositions, but I agree that this album needs a remaster of some sort. Hopefully Steve Wilson or somebody else could do some good with it.
There is so much mysticism, meaning, spirituality and love in this album. This song is also placed on the "Very final day." "The very last day", but instead of a cataclysmic apocalypse it's a circus of beauty and joy ushering a new world an eternally joyful and beautiful paradise, brought to Earth. It doesn't matter what beliefs you have, it's an artist's vision of universal beauty and grace.
I've listened to this since '78 and love Yes! I'm a 2nd generation circus clown and the circus is not the same anymore! A great video you put together for this incredible song! Thanks for posting this!💕💕💕😞😊!
Saw it performed live in Chicago 1979. Best live band IMO. This song reminds me of Beatles Mr. Kite only to a higher illustrative and mystical level. Yes in their prime had no peers.
This was the single best concert I have ever been to and I have been to many. This had so little album deviation it was incredible. This album just came out. NY concert, rotating center stage, 7 rows back, 2 encores and people still cheered after the lights came on. What a show.
Oakland Coliseum, 13th row on the floor. My first rock concert. I only knew Wakeman's stuff, being rather cut off in a small town. It was a revelation! What a wonderful experience, after almost 40 years I still remember. All of their stuff was new to me that night. Unforgettable and incredible!
No other song in entire history shows the true meaning of 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. I believe that is why Jon sing "beautiful" twice at the end. A true masterpiece of a song. Still stirs emotion even now.
I love this song. It puts me in fantasy land. When I look at the world today I almost want to step into this circus of heaven for a little while and enjoy the sights. To bad there are no clowns. Masterpiece.
When Jon sings, "On the dreamy ground we walked upon, I turned to my son, and said...", I get all choked up, with my eyes welling up. Can't explain it...but the song really touches me.
This way I feel about this song: "I turned to my son and said: - Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful?" Perfect song!!! :)))))))))))))
Beautiful video, Thanks for your work!!!! Yes fan ,since mid 70s.Jon and Rick. That was, the real YES. ROCK ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never gotten the hate that many Yes "fans" have for this song. I find it be very creative and original in best possible way. Unlike anything else that was being made in the rock world at the time (or since)...However, does anyone else find the song to be, ultimately, a sad one? After the joyous melody that Jon sings, and the lyrics full of wild, magical imagery, in the end the singer/narrator turns to his son to find that he is disappointed and unimpressed by all the magical spectacle, wanted clowns and toffee apples instead...I think that may be a meaning to this song that many people miss.
Great vid. Doing something worthy of this song had to be a challenge. Not every piece of music need to be a symphony. There's sonatas, canons, rondos, menuets, waltz... And this well crafted little gem. Also a very good diction practice when you're french! Always loved this song and Tormato. Just because the band was having personality issue doesn't mean the music is not good.
A play of millions roared along The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great Civil wars where brothers fought and killed their friendship in hate All seen by Zeus performing scenes of the magical way The day the circus came to town Dam
It gives me hope for humanity that someone took the time to make such a fantastic video to accompany this amazing albeit sadly not universally appreciated masterpiece
I bought Tormato when I was 12 years old. Only Yes album I ever owned. I loved it and bought lots of Jon Anderson Albums after. Just discovered it is hated by lots of Yes "fans". Strange.
The day the Circus of Heaven came to town Local folks lined the streets in a Midwestern town Waiting anxiously for the parade to begin all round On the very last day A Unicorn headed the Mystical way Surrounded by what seemed a thousand golden angels at play Behind were Centaurs, elves, bright fairies all in colours of Jade On the very final day For what seemed only just a moment in time Seven solemn flying silvered regal horses rode by Seven golden chariots in tow, a wonder to behold The Seven Lords of the Mountains of time There then arose where nothing really stood there before A giant tent rising one thousand feet high from the floor Towns people flocked inside with their eyes all amazed To greet the Seventh Lord of the Seventh age A fanfare rang out in an incredible sound Bringing out the strangest visions perfect harmony round Any dreams he asked would they like to have seen From historical or mythical scenes Then there above their heads just as vivid as life Each vision transported in multitudes inventing light Grecian galleons, The Sack of Troy, to the Gardens of Babylon A play of millions roared along The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great Civil wars where brothers fought and killed their friendship in hate All seen by Zeus performing scenes of the magical way The day the circus came to town Outside great animals as tame as the trees Angels high in starlight dancing streets Tuning their colours with indigo and gold Dropping violet, red and emerald snow As the circus finally changed its invisible course A new world to be found On the dreamy ground we walked upon I turned to my son and said "Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful?" "Oh! it was OK!! But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears, candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."
Yes, beautiful song. Yes, and especially Jon, has been connected to spirituality, indian, not the least, since the beginning of the 90's. F ex "Tales" is based on the ancient Vedas of India, divided into sruti, smriti, purana and brahmana, the four sides of "Tales". I was able to meet Jon in Oslo with AWBH concert beginning of 90's and gave him a translation of a sruti text from the Vedas. Here in the video we also see the famous painting of Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield - for victory of spiritual heaven vs material hell.
I wonder if the lyrics were inspired by JRR Tolkien's "The Silmarillion"--particularly page 5, where music becomes manifest in the physical world. The book was published in 1977, a year before Tormato.
"..and you will See the Son of Man standing at the Right Hand of Power, Coming in the Clouds of Heaven " Liked the implication implied with The COMING of the LORD..I AM the FIRST and the LAST (He is 'on the Very Final Day or 'last day"...and the end of the song reminded me of when Paul wrote: "1 Corinthians 13:11 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." ... 1 Corinthians 13:10 But when The Perfect comes, the partial passes away. 1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
I think that's why my gen liked it at first, but then went to disco and dance music: Prog forced to you to listen to it and any messages it had, you just coun't hear whatever you wanted. My gen thought it spoke to a gen 10 years before, and associated it with the Hippie movements (e.g., Haight-Ashbury and Altamonte), especially w/Anderson's Mystical Far-Eastern inspired lyrics, even though PR was coming from Britian. 'The Vietnam War's ended -- let's just dance' became my gen's thinking.
First Yes Concert 1976 Second leg of the tour. Crab Nebula Stage. Pittsburgh Cleveland My brother Mike drove me there. Nothing Spinal Tap about it! Photos can be found, but no Film pathetic.
this song, like the Tormato album in general, grows on you..by the bands own admission they weren't in a good place when they made this album..just goes to show how good they were when they WERE in a good place!!
Tony McQuarters What's amazing is if some other band had come out with the songs on Tormato, they would be hailed as genuises. The standards were just so brutally high for the guys in YES, its truly a miracle they all could handle it.
I got to see them in the round on this tour, and YES when they played this song
every nerve ending in my body was on fire and tears filled my eyes, and His son
was there and it was pure magic. There are no words to describe how much
I Love YES
They played eight nights in the garden and I was fortunate to see them 7 Donovan was the opening act who was the first one to come out with stage in the round was unfortunately bood off the first night they want they're one of the few bands that sound as good live as on their albums I have two sons and one of them would call them the yesses they are a magical band
Yes sir I saw them in the round when this came out. Madison square garden. Awesome!
Some Yes fans dislike this song but I have always LOVED it.
One of my favorites!
Same thing with the album in general but I like the whole album.
@David Reneau Trooper?
@@mikereiss4216 Starship Trooper?
@@juaniriarte1193 I know the song. He said he was a Trooper. To some it apparently means they only like older Yes or something.
I was there in wembley watching massive grown men cry when his son came out,,, just been crying my eyes out at the memory
johnamos41 was there as well, more than once at the empire pool!, think this was the time they put an extra show on the afternoon, drove back to Newcastle sated until the next time . . . . .
Me too !!
One of my favorite Yes songs, just the cheerfulness and lyrics are so awesome (the original definition) and that Bass line with Howe's guitar just make this tune so Magical
Here the art of "Yes" shines in particular in the extraordinary care of the arrangement: everything - even the very calibrated choice of instrumental timbres; the delicate filigree of vocal polyphonies; the very apt and characteristic preciousness of the repeated rumble of a low voice that emerges slightly, from a certain point, here and there - is perfectly conceived to highlight an ethereal and otherworldly atmosphere, on the wings of a boundless imagination that only Jon's unique voice could express.
You listen to music for years and then one day a song blows you away completely....This was my moment.
Yeah!
I know that feeling.
That...was..fantastic...time to wipe the tears
This has been one of my fav song since it came out, always gives me shivers,, I love Tormato, def thumbs up from me x
maravilloso disco de yes y a mi gusto el mejor
Love it
the band said they didn't like the album!
@@calebsj , they don't like the mixing, but they love the compositions.
@@calebsj It was the mixing they hated not the album. I love the compositions, but I agree that this album needs a remaster of some sort. Hopefully Steve Wilson or somebody else could do some good with it.
There is so much mysticism, meaning, spirituality and love in this album. This song is also placed on the "Very final day." "The very last day", but instead of a cataclysmic apocalypse it's a circus of beauty and joy ushering a new world an eternally joyful and beautiful paradise, brought to Earth. It doesn't matter what beliefs you have, it's an artist's vision of universal beauty and grace.
I've listened to this since '78 and love Yes!
I'm a 2nd generation circus clown and the circus is not the same anymore! A great video you put together for this incredible song!
Thanks for posting this!💕💕💕😞😊!
Saw it performed live in Chicago 1979. Best live band IMO. This song reminds me of Beatles Mr. Kite only to a higher illustrative and mystical level. Yes in their prime had no peers.
This was the single best concert I have ever been to and I have been to many. This had so little album deviation it was incredible. This album just came out. NY concert, rotating center stage, 7 rows back, 2 encores and people still cheered after the lights came on. What a show.
De Ko Saw it in Phoenix same thing the cheers lasted about 10 mins after the show ended Same thing when Floyd did the wall in California
I wish I was there brother ..... I wish I was there. NOTW either.
De Ko Bless you my Brother in Christ
Amen .
Oakland Coliseum, 13th row on the floor. My first rock concert.
I only knew Wakeman's stuff, being rather cut off in a small town.
It was a revelation! What a wonderful experience, after almost 40 years I still remember. All of their stuff was new to me that night. Unforgettable and incredible!
No other song in entire history shows the true meaning of 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. I believe that is why Jon sing "beautiful" twice at the end. A true masterpiece of a song. Still stirs emotion even now.
Curiously, the kid also says twice the word 'clown'.
Jon Anderson understood and saw the higher divine energy behind things,☘️
I love this song, especially at the end when his son speaks!
Wonderful song! "Tormato" had to grow on me but I eventually came to love the album.
no lions...no tigers...no elephants....a truly magical song
The last two words of the little boy "No Clowns" always tears me up.
This was the first YES song that I heard and remember. This is YES to me, the intro, and it IS the INTRO. I love YES because of this song.
My first Yes song was Don't Kill The Whale. Then Wonderous Stories, Then Turn Of The Century. Then forever my life was changed.
I always think of this song and listen to it again when it's time for the Minnesota State Fair, which it is again now. Thank you for sharing this.
I love this song. It puts me in fantasy land. When I look at the world today I almost want to step into this circus of heaven for a little while and enjoy the sights. To bad there are no clowns. Masterpiece.
When Jon sings, "On the dreamy ground we walked upon, I turned to my son, and said...", I get all choked up, with my eyes welling up. Can't explain it...but the song really touches me.
The lyrics are outstanding.
This way I feel about this song:
"I turned to my son and said:
- Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful?"
Perfect song!!! :)))))))))))))
I absolutely adore Circus of Heaven!
Where Chris now plays his bass
Amen.
I had to get this album for this song alone and then I really liked it completely.
Beautiful video, Thanks for your work!!!! Yes fan ,since mid 70s.Jon and Rick. That was, the real YES. ROCK ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Outstanding concert! They were the best live shows of all time, and I've seen some of the best...
Having a son what a gift
It's absolutely beautiful song
I've never gotten the hate that many Yes "fans" have for this song. I find it be very creative and original in best possible way. Unlike anything else that was being made in the rock world at the time (or since)...However, does anyone else find the song to be, ultimately, a sad one? After the joyous melody that Jon sings, and the lyrics full of wild, magical imagery, in the end the singer/narrator turns to his son to find that he is disappointed and unimpressed by all the magical spectacle, wanted clowns and toffee apples instead...I think that may be a meaning to this song that many people miss.
Great vid. Doing something worthy of this song had to be a challenge. Not every piece of music need to be a symphony. There's sonatas, canons, rondos, menuets, waltz... And this well crafted little gem. Also a very good diction practice when you're french! Always loved this song and Tormato. Just because the band was having personality issue doesn't mean the music is not good.
Perfect comment.
Always loved this song.
The last song of theirs I truly enjoyed. They were a great group.
One of the best songs ever made. Very well done. Good job!
Bella...bellissima.....meravigliosa.....tenerissima...commovente
So unknown and underrated. Jon brought Olias forward to play with his kid.
A play of millions roared along
The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great
Civil wars where brothers fought and killed their friendship in hate
All seen by Zeus performing scenes of the magical way
The day the circus came to town
Dam
This is a great song and this is a video that goes along with it brilliantly. I have watched it several times over many years.
One of my all time favorites.
circus is in my midwestern town this week !
Thanks 4 that, brought back some fantastic Memories.
In my opinion, the best! My favorite.
The little voice at the end is Anderson son, Damion. And I so get what he is saying.
It gives me hope for humanity that someone took the time to make such a fantastic video to accompany this amazing albeit sadly not universally appreciated masterpiece
I love Damian's first performance at the end, I love his little voice.
Your Photo video is really cool! and this song brings back old good memories. : )
What a great song!!!
5/26/24
What an amazing song...........
YES es tan buena banda que te toca una milonga y parece rock
Another perfectly beautiful video, thank you, Vzqk.
What an amazing masterpiece
I bought Tormato when I was 12 years old. Only Yes album I ever owned. I loved it and bought lots of Jon Anderson Albums after. Just discovered it is hated by lots of Yes "fans". Strange.
not the smart ones. 😎
The day the Circus of Heaven came to town
Local folks lined the streets in a Midwestern town
Waiting anxiously for the parade to begin all round
On the very last day
A Unicorn headed the Mystical way
Surrounded by what seemed a thousand golden angels at play
Behind were Centaurs, elves, bright fairies all in colours of Jade
On the very final day
For what seemed only just a moment in time
Seven solemn flying silvered regal horses rode by
Seven golden chariots in tow, a wonder to behold
The Seven Lords of the Mountains of time
There then arose where nothing really stood there before
A giant tent rising one thousand feet high from the floor
Towns people flocked inside with their eyes all amazed
To greet the Seventh Lord of the Seventh age
A fanfare rang out in an incredible sound
Bringing out the strangest visions perfect harmony round
Any dreams he asked would they like to have seen
From historical or mythical scenes
Then there above their heads just as vivid as life
Each vision transported in multitudes inventing light
Grecian galleons, The Sack of Troy, to the Gardens of Babylon
A play of millions roared along
The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great
Civil wars where brothers fought and killed their friendship in hate
All seen by Zeus performing scenes of the magical way
The day the circus came to town
Outside great animals as tame as the trees
Angels high in starlight dancing streets
Tuning their colours with indigo and gold
Dropping violet, red and emerald snow
As the circus finally changed its invisible course
A new world to be found
On the dreamy ground we walked upon
I turned to my son and said
"Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful?"
"Oh! it was OK!! But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,
candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."
Bloody good effort on the video !
Agreed!
BRILLIANCE !!
Why did I miss this in my youth ..???
My friend went to the Tormato tour ... I stayed home. :(
I saw the Going For The One and Tormato tours at both MSG and New Haven. I had mixed feelings about Tormato until I heard it live.
Glad the editor understands the visual aspects of the song.
A new world to be found .... YES!
some voice love it
Yes, beautiful song. Yes, and especially Jon, has been connected to spirituality, indian, not the least, since the beginning of the 90's.
F ex "Tales" is based on the ancient Vedas of India, divided into sruti, smriti, purana and brahmana, the four sides of "Tales".
I was able to meet Jon in Oslo with AWBH concert beginning of 90's and gave him a translation of a sruti text from the Vedas.
Here in the video we also see the famous painting of Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield - for victory of spiritual heaven vs material hell.
Sorry, besinning of 70,s, of course.
@@Tapas08 , thanks for the info!
Total trip.
I wonder if the lyrics were inspired by JRR Tolkien's "The Silmarillion"--particularly page 5, where music becomes manifest in the physical world. The book was published in 1977, a year before Tormato.
This is beautiful song from Tormato album.
It's meant to be a fun, playful song. Chill out.
EXACTLY!!! THANK YOU! I don't know why certain people have such a hatred for this song. Even the BEATLES made their share of fun,silly songs.
@@saurian11 , I never knew any Yes fan who didn't like this song.
"..and you will See the Son of Man standing at the Right Hand of Power, Coming in the Clouds of Heaven " Liked the implication implied with The COMING of the LORD..I AM the FIRST and the LAST (He is 'on the Very Final Day or 'last day"...and the end of the song reminded me of when Paul wrote: "1 Corinthians 13:11
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." ... 1 Corinthians 13:10 But when The Perfect comes, the partial passes away.
1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Stephen Sponsler Beautifully put!
For me the best album . And Yes you may disagree, but first listen to Chris his bassplay.
Lyrical genius.
Thank You
perfect
el mejor disco de Yes!
Estoy de acuerdo.
3:14 gives me the shivers :)
What were these guys on, still sounds fantastic after all these years
Why the subtitles are off? How could I ad some, pls?
Its was ok...but there was no clowns, lions or tigers nor bears, candy floss, toffee apples... No Clowns..which was actully sung by his son
Damion I think his name
No clowns.
¡¡¡ Love It ¡¡¡
I love this song a lot who wont like
Epic lyrics....
Genesis - 1973 Selling England By The Pound - 01 - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
and like it))
I think that's why my gen liked it at first, but then went to disco and dance music: Prog forced to you to listen to it and any messages it had, you just coun't hear whatever you wanted. My gen thought it spoke to a gen 10 years before, and associated it with the Hippie movements (e.g., Haight-Ashbury and Altamonte), especially w/Anderson's Mystical Far-Eastern inspired lyrics, even though PR was coming from Britian. 'The Vietnam War's ended -- let's just dance' became my gen's thinking.
...anyone remember roadies with horses on poles running around the stage at the end of this when they did it live?
First Yes Concert
1976
Second leg of the tour.
Crab Nebula Stage.
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
My brother Mike drove me there.
Nothing Spinal Tap about it!
Photos can be found, but no Film pathetic.
this song, like the Tormato album in general, grows on you..by the bands own admission they weren't in a good place when they made this album..just goes to show how good they were when they WERE in a good place!!
Tony McQuarters What's amazing is if some other band had come out with the songs on Tormato, they would be hailed as genuises. The standards were just so brutally high for the guys in YES, its truly a miracle they all could handle it.
And today they announce that Ringling Brothers will cease.
My four bands...YES gentil giant king crimson genisis the old one with peter
3:17 ... amazing!
i like this song.
i like YES
It’s strange yes 1978
oh, it was ok....but there were no clowns no lions, no tigers, no bears. No candyfloss,, no clowns
That's right, baby. Who told you about them?
best song ever!!im not really craig im his step daughter!
If you don't like his art work -search for another COH video. SIMPLE ! I liked most of the imagery.
I shit in the face of Christ.
Yes
.......this should be the new theme song for Manchester United......
What's a circus without clowns.
..phantasmagoric 'ey?
Suggest " Madrigal"!
A little kids voice can make any song better. like Goodbye Blue Sky
try to top that
...yeah cool album cover "Tormato"