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Rick Wakeman spent six months of 1977 recording Going For The One with Yes. Meanwhile, JJ Burnel and The Stranglers released two albums over the same time period in the same year. When Prog put the pair together in 2012, some might have expected the punk wars to resurface. What happened instead was an epic revealing of home truths about the time when prog’s glory years ended, and another movement took its place.“What’s all this about?” asks Stranglers’ bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel is leaning forward in his chair and enquiring why he’s sitting next to the rather less buff former Yes keyboard player and all-round prog overlord Rick Wakeman.We decided to bring together two men from opposite ends of the musical spectrum to find out what things were really like on the frontline all those years ago. In 1977 Wakeman had spent six months in Queen’s Mountain Studios in Montreux working on Yes’ Going For The One album. In stark contrast, The Stranglers were preparing to release not one but two albums, six months apart: Rattus Norvegicus and No More Heroes. For Yes it marked the end of their imperial phase. For The Stranglers it was the beginning of theirs.The pair greet each like old friends – and it turns out that they are old friends, their paths having crossed several times over the years. “1977, then,” booms Wakeman, settling back into his chair. “I’m not certain either of us will remember that far back…”For JJ, 1977 would have been the start of an adventure, whereas Rick had, to put it bluntly, been round the block a few times.Rick Wakeman: Thank you!Jean-Jacques Burnel: It was the first time we’d released an album. We felt something was going on – a bit of a revolution, and with every revolution you chuck the baby out with the bath water. It was a Year Zero for many people. It was only years later that people started admitting to having liked anything before Year Zero.How long did that take?JJ: A long time. I do remember Captain Sensible at the time, without any irony, admitting he liked Abba; and when I saw the Sex Pistols they were playing old Monkees covers. There was a dichotomy between what people were doing and what they were claiming in the press. A lot of the bands claimed punk had nothing to do with drugs. I was like, “What?!” We used to get called hippies because we smoked dope. Everyone was broke and tight, so speed was the drug of choice because it was cheap.What was 1977 like for you, Rick?RW: In 1977 I’d just rejoined Yes and we were recording Going For The One in Switzerland, which took six months…JJ: Six months! We recorded our first two albums in 10 days!RW: A lot of that time was spent with Alan going skiing, Steve tuning his guitars, and trying to wake Chris up! But [label boss] Ahmet Ertegun came to us and said: “I don’t know how much longer I can keep funding records like this.” We realised that this was the last bastion of prog rock as we knew it. We were aware of punk – I’d seen it coming a few years earlier when I saw The Tubes and took them to A&M, who signed them.We were aware that something was going on. And it kills off what went before itRick WakemanJJ: Really? We used to love The Tubes. RW: We were aware that something was going on. And it kills off what went before it, at least for a bit. When prog came along, it did away with the old beat and psychedelic groups, the way the beat groups had done away with the crooners before them.JJ: When something new comes along, everyone wants to be a part of that peer group, to the extent that they’ll deny their history. It’s only when they’ve gained some confidence that they can start to admit where that history actually came from. Up until that point it’s almost politically incorrect to admit your influences! (Image credit: Future)But you can tell by just listening to the music. On our first album, the nearest thing we had to a prog rock song was this four-part piece called Down In The Sewer. That was about 11 minutes long and it was a suite. Prog rock, essentially, even if it was prog à la Beefheart and The Doors.Did that kind of rivalry exist in prog, Rick? Did you have any dust-ups with ELP or Genesis? RW: No. The press tried to stir things up, between myself and Keith Emerson especially. But we were great friends and we used to laugh about it all. We let it go on because it fuelled press.But that rivalry did exist between punk bands and prog bands?We used to laugh at Pink Floyd taking years to make an album. But we’ve just taken two years to make oursJJ BurnelJJ: We used to laugh at things like Pink Floyd taking years to make an album. But we’ve just taken two years to make our album [Giants, 2012]. The creative process can take time, because you’re not on an assembly line. And you have a life outside the band as well. The two worlds did occasionally meet: Freddie Mercury bumping into Sid Vicious in the studio, members of Led Zeppelin turning up to punk gigs…I don’t really recall fraternising with any bands from the previous generation apart from Dr Feelgood. When I was a kid I’d go and see bands like Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and Black Cat Bones, who became Free, and I felt that kind of vibe in Dr Feelgood.Our keyboard player, Dave Greenfield, was a prog rocker, though. When I first met him he had platform boots on, his jacket had frills, and he had long hair and what we called a semi-pro moustache. He introduced me to In The Land Of Grey And Pink by Caravan. I did like that. I do remember the Yes singer [Jon Anderson], though. Is he still into elves?RW: Jon has his own little world. When he doesn’t like what’s happening inthe real one he retreats into his own one. He’s a big fan of yours, though,JJ. We were touring together recently, driving around in the same car, listening to all sorts of music. We played some Stranglers, and he said to me: “You know, there’s a few of their songs that Yes could have done.” He was right. Certainly something like Golden Brown.How did get you away with that?We played some Stranglers and Jon said, ‘There’s a few of their songs that Yes could have done’Rick WakemanJJ: There was a lot of hypocrisy involved at the time, like people claiming to be working class when they weren’t. I remember Joe Strummer crying on my shoulder when we were the first band to support Patti Smith and the Ramones. He was in a rhythm and blues band called The 101’ers; he was going, “Oh, I wish I had a band like yours!” He used to live in the Notting Hill squats at the time. No one knew his dad was a diplomat.Was there a rivalry between the punk bands at the time?JJ: Not until success kicked in. I remember meeting Steve Jones and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols when we supported Patti Smith in 1976, and all Steve said to me was: “We’re going to be famous in six months’ time. I like your haircut!” Then a year later I remember having a punch-up with Steve and Paul and Paul Simonon from The Clash at the old Dingwalls. That’s when the rivalry seemed to start – when we started outselling everyone.JJ: I’ll tell you something about Golden Brown that I’ve never told anyone before. It actually developed out of a prog rock suite. We were recording the La Folie album, and Hugh and I were pissed off because we seemed to be writing all the songs. So we said to Jet and Dave, “Right, you two are going to write a song. We’re off to the pub. Have it written when we get back.” We fucked off to the pub all afternoon. Now, with Dave being a prog rocker and Jet being a jazzer, when we got back they presented us with this six-part piece of music. And we were like, “Fucking hell, we can’t record this.” We went, “Don’t like that bit… don’t like that… oh, wait a minute, we could something with that.” And the part we did like formed the basis for Golden Brown.Have you seen these re-runs of Top Of The Pops from 1977? What a It’s like karaoke centralJJ Burnel1977 has retrospectively been cast as the year of punk, but the biggest-selling albums of the year were Bat Out Of Hell and Rumours. Has there been a bit of rewriting of history?JJ: Have you seen these re-runs of Top Of The Pops from 1977 on telly? What a load of shite! It’s like karaoke central.So, 1977: was it fun?JJ: It certainly was. I knew a year later that things were changing, though. I had a bank account, and I went in and the teller was a young girl with streaks of green in her hair. The great British assimilation had begun. RW: It becomes mainstream.JJ: Yes. It had become the norm.

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Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud posted a message supporting transgender-identifying people after her viral confrontation with former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom during Sunday night’s game ended with Freedom being ejected from the arena. “To every trans kid/person, You are apart [sic] of MY community & tribe,” Cloud wrote in a post on Threads. “You belong. You’re loved. You’re seen. You’re perfect as you are. & you will always be protected by me.” Her post came shortly after a mid-game confrontation in which she shouted at Freedom, who was seated by the baseline wearing a T-shirt defining a woman as an “adult human female.” Cloud had just scored a basket with just over a minute left in the third quarter of Chicago’s game against the Indiana Fever when the Fever called a timeout. Cloud used the stoppage to approach Freedom and shout at him from the court. Freedom stood up and raised both arms while stepping toward the court before players and officials got between them. Freedom was ultimately escorted from his courtside seat and spoke briefly with police before leaving Chicago’s Wintrust Arena. He later told OutKick that he believed his shirt had provoked Cloud’s outburst. “I was cheering for my friend Sophie [Cunningham] because when she shot that three, I put my hands in the air,” Freedom told the outlet. “A couple possessions later, [Cloud] came back and said, ‘She’s not gonna sleep with you.’ And I was shocked. I was like, ‘Listen, I’m not trying to sleep with her. I think she’s awesome. She’s a good friend.’ But I think it has a lot to do with my shirt. I was obviously wearing a shirt explaining what a woman is, and I think that had a lot to do with what she thinks about women. I think it triggered her a lot.” Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham has been the target of protests since she stood up for protecting women and girls in sports, and a number of other WNBA players and coaches have taken the opposite position. The issue has also sparked confrontations involving fans. A Seattle Storm co-owner was accused of scolding teenage girls who wore XX-XY Athletics gear to a game, while a mother and daughter attending an Atlanta Dream game recently said they were told to cover up their XX-XY shirts or leave the arena. Freedom entered the debate after reviewing the WNBA’s eligibility rules, claiming that he met the qualifications to declare for the 2027 WNBA draft. Fellow former NBA player Royce White followed with a nearly identical announcement, adding that he “sometimes” identified as a transgender woman and planned to sue for discrimination if he went undrafted.