I woke up from the dream and told my wife. I said, ‘I just saw Chris. He was heading towards the light of Heaven.’ She said, ‘He loved you.’ I said, ‘Yeah. We were brothers. It was an incredible moment.”
Anderson then continues, to say: “A couple of months later, I was doing a show in Phoenix. I met Chris’ widow, Scotland, and I told her the story. She said to me, ‘He kept saying before he passed away that he wanted to go to Maui.’ There you go.”
Writer Andy Greene then asks, But you didn’t actually speak with him before he died?
“Didn’t need to,” Anderson replies. “He had his life to live, and I had my life. I actually had a great dream about Alan White [ who passed away on May 26 last year] last night. It was a lovely dream. He was with all the guys in the band … Not just one or two, but everybody who has been in the band. They were up there doing some gig or something.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Anderson is asked if he could ever envisage getting back together with Steve Howe as Yes: the singer replies, “You never know in this life.” In 2020 Steve Howe told Rolling Stone that the idea of a reunion was “completely unthinkable.”
The full Rolling Stone interview with Jon Anderson can be accessed here.
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