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Christopher Russell Edward Squire (4March 1948 – 27June 2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was best known as the bassist and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. He was the only member to appear on each of their 21 studio albums, released from 1969 to 2014. Born in the Kingsbury area of London, Squire took an early interest in church music and sang in the local church and school choirs. After he took up the bass guitar at age sixteen, his earliest gigs were in 1964 for The Selfs, which later evolved into The Syn. In 1968, Squire formed Yes with singer Jon Anderson; he would remain the band's sole bassist for the next 47 years. Squire was widely regarded as the dominant bassist among the English progressive rock bands, influencing peers and later generations of bassists with his incisive sound and elaborately contoured, melodic bass lines. His name was associated with his trademark instrument, the Rickenbacker 4001. In May 2015, Squire announced a hiatus from Yes after he was diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia and subsequently died on 27 June at his home in Phoenix, Arizona. The band's first show of their tour with Toto on 7 August 2015 marked the first Yes concert ever performed without Squire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Squire to undergo treatment for Leukemia )〕 From 1991 to 2000, Rickenbacker produced a limited edition signature model bass in his name, the 4001CS. Squire released two solo albums, ''Fish Out of Water'' (1975) and ''Chris Squire's Swiss Choir'' (2007), a Christmas album. ==Early life== Squire was born on 4 March 1948 in the north west London suburb of Kingsbury. He grew up there and in the nearby Queensbury and Wembley areas.〔Welch 2008, p. 24.〕〔Hedges 1982, p. 15.〕 His father was a cab driver and his mother a secretary for an estate agent. As a youngster Squire took a liking to Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald records belonging to his father, though his main interest was church music.〔 At age six,〔Welch 2008, p. 25.〕 he joined the church choir at St. Andrew's in Kingsbury with Andrew Pryce Jackman, a friend of his who lived nearby. The choirmaster was Barry Rose, who was an early influence on Squire: "He made me realise that working at it was the way to become best at something".〔 Squire sang in the choir at his school, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, then located in Hampstead.〔Welch, Chris.: ''Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes''. (London: Omnibus Press, 1999).〕 Squire did not consider a music career until the age of sixteen when "the emergence of The Beatles" and the Beat music boom in the early 1960s inspired him to learn the bass guitar.〔〔Hedges 1982, p. 18.〕 His first bass was a Futurama, "very cheap, but good enough to learn on."〔Soocher, Stan: "Squire's bass fire", ''Circus Weekly'', 13 March 1979, 33.〕 In 1964, Squire was suspended from school for having hair that was too long and was given money for a hair cut. Instead he went home and never returned.〔 He took up work selling guitars at a Boosey & Hawkes shop in Regent Street, using the staff discount to purchase a Rickenbacker 4001 bass.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Squire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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