While bands like Rush, Yes and Genesis continued to tour and make albums, many new acts were keen to build on the foundations they had laid. Major ‘arena rock’ acts such as Journey, Foreigner, Styx and Kansas achieved great success by incorporating some of the elements of prog with hard...
Bringing a blend of rock and theater, Styx commanded the audience’s attention throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. Having the benefit of two stellar vocalists in Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw and a wealth of influences, the band continually kept things interesting. They were ahead of the game in...
Kilroy Was Here (Styx). A criminally overlooked rock opera about a future fascist theocracy in which music is outlawed, told from the perspective of a former rock star. The band made a film of the story, which accompanied their stage show....
Rick Derringer was already somewhat of a known entity, having played with The McCoys and working with blues guitar greats Johnny and Edgar Winter before deciding to venture out on his own in 1973. The guitarist’s debut album was titledAll American Boy, and while it featured several instrumenta...
The beauty of the old way of album listening (whether cassettes, CDs, or LPs) is that the artist can script an experience in the way that the whole thing played together. An album was not merely a list of singles thrown together in a haphazard manner.StyxwithParadise TheaterandKilroy was...
I'll pass on Styx, since I could never get into them, but we differ on Weird Al & the Monkees. I already wrote on the Monkees page that it was still quite common in the 60's for artists not to write their own material, & that many high-end "artists" in fact have outsiders ...
I'll pass on Styx, since I could never get into them, but we differ on Weird Al & the Monkees. I already wrote on the Monkees page that it was still quite common in the 60's for artists not to write their own material, & that many high-end "artists" in fact have outsiders ...
the tracks mirrored pop-culture movements of the time. The LPs biggest hit was “Come Sail Away,” a soaring song about escapism - a common theme in 1977 - that also mixed in sci-fi elements. ‘The Grand Illusion’ launched Styx to stardom, selling more than 3 million copies in the U...
was Boston's first album, which immediately began selling by the truckload upon its release in 1976. Soon, the record store racks were filled with albums by bands with names like Foreigner and Survivor. Pre-existing bands like Styx, Journey and REO Speedwagon caught the wave as well, ...
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