Styx - Paradise Theater

After successfully establishing themselves as one of America's best commercial progressive rock bands of the late '70s with albums like The Grand Illusion and Pieces Of Eight, Chicago's Styx had taken a dubious step towards pop overkill with singer Dennis Deyoung's ultra-schmaltzy ballad "Babe." The centerpiece of 1979's uneven Cornerstone album, the number one single would sew the seeds of disaster for the group by pitching Deyoung's increasingly mainstream ambitions against the group's more conservative songwriters, Tommy Shaw and James "jy" Young. Read More