Yes frontman “deeply hurt” as he hits back at “blatant lies” of former bandmate’s lawsuit

nme.com:

Yes vocalist Jon Davison has addressed the accusations made in a lawsuit by former bandmate Riz Story, calling them “blatant lies.”Story sued the band last week claiming the prog-rock legends stole parts of his song ‘Reunion’ from his 2014 film A Winter Rose for their own track ‘Dare To Know’.Story alleged that the melody was first conceived of when he and Davison were in a band with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins back in the ’90s.

He also claimed they were founding members of a band called Anyone.While Davison has confirmed that they were in a band with Hawkins, they were not founding members of Anyone.

Instead, they were in a band called Blash Meth, and he left before it became Anyone years later.“Any suggestion that I might have heard this generic melody when we were younger, let alone thought it was worthy of Yes, is utterly absurd,” he wrote.In the statement, Davison continued: “For the record I did not write ‘Dare To Know.’ As anyone who studies the Yes albums will know meticulous care is taken on every song to correctly credit the songwriters.

On The Quest, I have credits on 6 of 11 songs, hardly the “nearly every other song” that is incorrectly stated in their claim to try and support their fiction.“Nor did I ever hear the “musical composition” supposedly called ‘Reunion’ or see the indie film A Winter Rose.