Editing Wishbone Ash (section)

===Reunions and departures (1987–1994)===
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At the start of 1987, [[I.R.S. Records]] founder and original Wishbone manager [[Miles Copeland III]] began a series of albums entitled ''No Speak'', which featured all [[instrumental]] music. To launch the label successfully, Copeland needed a big name band that would bring publicity to the project. Copeland approached the four founding members of Wishbone Ash about having the original line-up record an all-instrumental album. Beginning in May 1987, for the first time in fourteen years, Andy Powell and Steve Upton joined forces with Martin Turner and Ted Turner to record the album.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wishboneash.co.uk/1980s | title=1980s }}</ref> 

In the meantime, previously booked concerts were covered by the Powell/Upton/Crompton/Pyle lineup, including a show in May 1987 in
[[Sun City (South Africa)|Sun City]] in [[South Africa]], where the band had been advised that they would be playing to a 50/50 multi-racial audience. But when this did not occur, the band returned to the UK and wrote to the [[United Nations]] expressing their regret at playing the show and their support of the anti-apartheid cause.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wishboneash.co.uk/1980s | title=1980s }}</ref> 

The year of 1987 concluded with appearances in the [[Soviet Union]] in December,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wishboneash.co.uk/1980s | title=1980s }}</ref> after which Crompton and Pyle stepped aside as the original foursome put out ''[[Nouveau Calls]]'', <ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> And the original line-up's tour of 1988 was a huge success, as the band played large venues for the first time since the late 1970s. The original Wishbone Ash lineup performed onstage for the first time since February 1974, playing the first concert of their reunion at Folkestone Leas Cliffe Hall in February 1988. Due to a late arrival from Chicago due to immigration problems, Ted Turner had missed tour rehearsals, so Jamie Crompton was brought back to play with the band during the first few weeks of the tour for the first part of the show, with Ted brought on mid-set.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wishboneash.co.uk/1980s | title=1980s }}</ref> In August 1989 the band released a reunion album with vocals entitled ''[[Here to Hear]]'',<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> featuring mainly songs written by Ted and Martin Turner.

In 1990 when the band went back into the studio to record the follow-up to ''Here to Hear'', they were shocked when founding member Upton, the band's drummer for their entire career, announced his retirement from the [[music industry]]. They enlisted drummer [[Robbie France]], but replaced him with [[Ray Weston]] when it was determined that personal conflicts between France and Martin Turner could not be resolved. ''[[Strange Affair (album)|Strange Affair]]'' was released in May 1991, featuring mainly songs written by Andy Powell and Ted Turner.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/>

Later in 1991, the band decided to continue without founding member Martin Turner, with the bassist/vocalist being replaced by returnee [[Andy Pyle]], who had been in the band years earlier. The band toured throughout 1992/93, releasing the live album ''[[The Ash Live in Chicago]]'', which had been recorded at two shows at a venue called Easy Street in the Chicago area back in January 1992, with guest keyboardist Dan C. Gillogly.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> And bassist [[Brad Lang]] filled in for Pyle for a BBC date in May 1992 and again that August for a handful of shows. January 1994 saw the second and final departure of Ted Turner. Following Turner's departure, Pyle and Weston also left the band.