Beverly Bivens
We Five's first single, from their debut album of the same name, was a reworked version of Sylvia Tyson's song "You Were On My Mind". It became one of the first folk-rock hits, reaching number three in the "Billboard" "Hot 100" in August 1965. Tyson (then Sylvia Fricker) says that she was unaware that her song had been covered until she heard We Five's version on a car radio while driving on Highway 101 in California. One consequence of We Five's success was that Tyson's song, which, until then, had been unavailable in sheet form, was published by Witmark of New York, with a photograph of Bivens and We Five on the cover. However, with the so-called "British invasion" at its height, We Five's recording had only limited international success, having been covered reluctantly, though successfully, in Britain by Crispian St. Peters.
Five (Tony Banks album)
"Five" is Banks's third solo album of classical music, following "Seven: A Suite for Orchestra" (2004) and "Six Pieces for Orchestra" (2012). Banks had thought of pursuing classical music at a later stage in his career when he could dedicate more time towards it. "Five" originated when Banks was commissioned to write a fifteen-minute piece for live performance at the Cheltenham Music Festival in July 2014, the seventieth instalment of the festival, by artistic director, Meurig Bowen. Banks chose a composition from a collection of short pieces that were in development at the time and worked on it further, which was then known as "Arpregg" but re-titled "Prelude to a Million Years" and became the opening track on "Five". Banks spoke of the debut performance of the composition: "The softer passages were fine, but the parts that required real oomph, like the big cello riffs, didn't work very well at all".