Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Close to the Edge is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released in September 1972. Drummer Bill Bruford, recording with the band for the last time until 1991, found making it laborious and felt he could not contribute better ideas — a dissatisfaction that led him to leave for King Crimson. The taste it signals reaches toward music built on craft and complexity, stories of artistic dedication, and worlds where creative intensity reshapes everything around it.
Close to the Edge is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in the UK on 8 September 1972 and in the US on 13 September 1972, by Atlantic Records. It is their last album until Union (1991) to feature original drummer Bill Bruford, who found the album particularly laborious to make and felt unable to contribute better ideas, which influenced his decision to join King Crimson once recording had finished.
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Film
9 Songs
Memory, desire, and live music fuse as Matt recalls a love affair born in a London concert hall.
Film
Leto
A Leningrad underground rock scene crackles with creative intensity and the thrill of forbidden music.
Film
Crossroads
A would-be blues virtuoso hunts for a long-lost song by the legendary Robert Johnson.
Film
Over the Edge
Bored teenagers push hard against authority, channelling raw energy into collective rebellion.
Film
Rock of Ages
A small-town girl and a city boy pursue Hollywood dreams on the Sunset Strip.
Film
Bowie: The Final Act
Rare interviews with those who knew and worked alongside Bowie illuminate his final creative chapter.
Series
Classic Albums
A documentary series examines the albums considered the best or most distinctive in rock history.
Series
takt op.Destiny
When music is torn from the world entirely, its absence reveals just how much it held everything together.
Series
A Place Further than the Universe
An Antarctic expedition chases scenery, sounds, and emotions never before experienced.
Game
AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Step into a live rock fantasy that puts the visceral energy of performance directly in your hands.
Game
Rock Band 2
Master lead guitar, bass, drums, and vocals in the most ambitious music-performance challenge on offer.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred retro rock tracks with a guitar controller across 80s venues and unlockable songs.
Book
Closer
Deep beneath the Earth, Will is hunted by the Styx with allies scrambling to reach him in time.
Book
Jazz-Rock
This history traces how jazz improvisation collided with rock, sparking the creative fusion that followed.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
A guide to selecting the perfect rock for play and pleasure, one careful quality at a time.
Book
Hot and bothered
An image consultant tries to rehabilitate a brawling pop star who has no interest in being remade.
Book
To the Limit
A profile of the Eagles covers the band's origins, musical style, and member relationships.
Book
Rock and roll, 1955-1970
A broad survey of rock's roots, rhythm and blues, solo stars, and supergroups from 1955 to 1970.
For something that puts music at the centre, 9 Songs and Leto both capture the intensity of living inside a musical moment. Classic Albums digs into the making of records with similar ambition.
Rock Band 2 is the closest match — it challenges players to master lead guitar, bass, drums, and vocals simultaneously, demanding focused attention to every instrument in the mix.
The album was famously difficult to make — drummer Bill Bruford found the sessions laborious and felt he could not contribute better ideas before leaving the band. That sense of craft pushed to its limit is audible in the finished record.