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“I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans

Co-founding singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, hiring a shouting woman to conserve his voice, taking a rock-is-dead approach to his final solo albums – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered

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"All we wanted was to stamp out Queen and Aerosmith": Inspired by Keith Moon and Star Trek, Come Sail Away took Styx to places they never expected

A song about being picked up and taken away by aliens, Come Sail Away gave Styx a career boost and eventually took on a life of its own

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"The songs will live on with this band and with me under the name Kevin Cronin": REO Speedwagon have played their final ever show but the band formerly known as REO Speedwagon will continue

Watch Kevin Cronin pay tribute as REO Speedwagon officially step away from the stage

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Superstar singer closes popular Las Vegas Strip residency

Country legend closes out a first residency on the Strip in nine years.

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Las Vegas Strip casino signs huge rock band for new residency

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"From a period when the band's theatricality had yet to spill over into pretension": Styx successfully fight the pomp rock wars on The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion was the first of four consecutive triple-platinum albums for Styx, establishing them as one of America’s biggest rock acts

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"Forever neutered after this, at least they went out with a bang": Gary Richrath shines as REO Speedwagon actually rock on Nine Lives

In which the midwestern rockers rock a little harder than normal, but not everyone is convinced

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“We opened for bands we really hated, like Styx. People were relating to us and not them. They got a little pissed”: the stellar rise and sudden fall of The Cars, the new wave band who soundtracked America

For nearly a decade in the late 70s and early 80s, The Cars were one of America’s most popular bands

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“I didn't tell the band, but I went to the gig and sat at the back. It was strange to see this other guy singing my lines… I really felt for him”: Michael Sadler was always going to rejoin Saga, and they knew it

Canadian singer’s five-year absence was long enough for his bandmates to fail the challenge of reinventing themselves

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“We were inspired by the Brits at the start, then the British media forced us to become a different type of band. Made and broken in the UK, you could say”: The prog credentials of Styx

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw believe that despite the big hits, the band always had something more substantial at heart

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"Like a heavier Styx or a lighter Uriah Heep, but dressed like the Bee Gees": Angel by Angel - Album Of The Week Club review

Discovered by Gene Simmons and sold as a more wholesome alternative to Kiss, Angel's stage show was equally theatrical, but their music was a mix of pomp and prog

Louder

F1: Lewis Hamilton Mocks Red Bull Rival Max Verstappen With Mercedes AMG GT Review

Hamilton drove a car that Verstappen failed to rent recently.

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“I realized I was never going to be a great player like Tommy Shaw, so I guess I’m just a power-chord and single-string lead player now. But I’m pretty good at it!” Styx’s James “J.Y.” Young on his guitar journey

The Godfather of Styx shares his most embarrassing moments on stage, the advice he would give his younger self, and why he’s Chicago through and through when it comes to the blues

Guitar World

Rik Emmett: “If I wrote a pop tune, the guys wanted to make it heavy. I’d put more power chords in and Townshend it up. For a while, it worked”

The former Triumph guitarist looks back on the Canadian rock phenomenon, addresses those Rush comparisons, and reveals how they kept the Rock & Roll Machine running – until it ground to a halt

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PC Gamer

My favorite co-op game in years is on sale for $3 in the Steam Summer Sale

Styx: Shards of Darkness is a rare treat: a quietly good co-op game you can wrap in about 10 hours.

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AXS TV’s Vinyl Obsession Follows Members Of Styx, ZZ Top, N Sync And More Browsing Through Record Stores

There’s nothing quite like walking through a record store with money in your pocket and nowhere else to be. I could spend hours just wandering through the aisles, looking at album covers and deciding, re-evaluating, deciding, re-evaluating and deciding again what to buy. It’s a fantastic way to spend an…

Newcastle Herald

Building up Thirsty Messiah to sate beer dreams

THOMAS Delgatto has been brewing beer for close to 40 years. It's been one helluva wait to realise his brewpub dream. The wait has been made even longer by a drawn-out City Of Newcastle development approval process for Delgatto's Broadmeadow venue, situated on Lambton Road in the former KTM Newcastle…

Daily Record

Missing Allan Bryant's family release new pictures nine years after unsolved disappearance

The 23-year-old vanished just a mile away from his home in Glenrothes, in 2013.

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‘Keep on loving you!’ Our true appreciation of the power ballad, an art form invented in Illinois

CHICAGO — Dear Illinois, I can’t fight this feeling anymore. It’s time to bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars. We sailed on together. We drifted apart. But I know, if the world turned upside down, I know you’d always be around. Your hands build me…

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