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Coming out Friday, October 6th is Rio, a new album by former Yes guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Trevor Rabin and his first of vocal-oriented music in 34 years. Rabin, who's best-known for writing "Owner of a Lonely Heart," Yes' only No. 1 hit, did release an album of instrumentals, "Jacarana," in 2012, but he's spent most of the past 30 years working on scoring films more than 50, including "Con Air," "Armageddon," "Remember the Titans," "National Treasure" and others. Rabin has also written music for National Basketball Association and NCAA March Madness broadcasts, presidential speeches and the Mission: Space attraction at Disney's Epcot park. He tells us "Rio" is the result of wanting to make some more conventional rock music again: "I had this urge to sing and to play some pretty much prog-stroke-rock album and I started think about what I'm gonna do and started puttin