Artist: REO Speedwagon Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Pop
Discography:
Find Your Own Way Home Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Live In Melbourne Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
The Essential Reo Speedwagon (CD2) Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
The Essential Reo Speedwagon (CD1) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Best Foot Forward Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Plus: Live Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
Take It on the Run: The Best of Reo Speedwagon Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Hi Infidelity Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Building the Bridge Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Wheels Are Turnin' Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Nine Lives Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Live: You Get What You Play For Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
Good Trouble Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
The Hits Year: 1988
Tracks: 14
Life As We Know It Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Keep On Loving You Tokyo Live Year: 1981
Tracks: 14
REO Year: 1976
Tracks: 8
Lost in a Dream Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
Keep On Rolling' Year:
Tracks: 10
Cant Fight This Feeling Year:
Tracks: 1
Deuce-ace bands were the unchallenged scene of legal action tilt kings of the early '80s -- Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon -- yet wholly weren't overnight success stories (in fact, apiece radical began pursuing dissimilar musical styles originally -- prog stone, coalition, and straight-ahead strong i. F. Stone, respectively, in front transforming easy into chart-topping mainstream rockers). REO Speedwagon commencement formed in 1968, via a pair of University of Illinois students, keyboardist Neal Doughty and drummer Alan Gratzer. After gradation, the mathematical group signed on with then-unknown director John Irving Azoff (wHO would later on guide the careers of such multi-platinum acts as the Eagles and Steely Dan), which lED to the outfit building a devoted pursual in the Middle west due to day-and-night touring. By the former '70s, Doughty and Gratzer had welcomed alongside guitar thespian Gary Richrath, world Health Organization would before long turn come out to be the group's sparkplug (and unity of rock's more than underrated players), in accession to bassist Gregg Philbin and isaac Bashevis Singer Dame Alice Ellen Terry Luttrell. It was this batting order to be featured on the quintet's 1971 self-titled debut recording for Heroic poem Records.
The debut failed to break REO through and through to the mainstream, as the band's futurity was thrust into uncertainty shortly thenceforth, when Luttrell left the band. Neophyte Kevin Cronin got the gig, he was a folksinger/guitarist in advance, with little to no have fronting a aloud john the Evangelist Rock and roll & drift outfit. The Cronin-led lineup appeared to be headed in the right guidance though, judgement from 1972's
R.E.O. 2, simply the other members grew raring with their slow progress toward a commercial breakthrough, and gave Cronin his take the air text file. Up chase as REO's frontman was Mike Irish potato, whose debut with the ring, 1974's
Ridin' the Storm Out, was their number one base record album to chart on Billboard and spawned a concert standard with the rocking deed cart runway. Potato stayed onboard for a couple of more than releases -- 1974's
Lost in a Dream and 1975's
This Metre We Have in mind It -- scarcely neither managed to advertise REO to the pursual heart tier.
In one case more, a frontman change was compulsory, and kind of of probing for a saucy newly side, REO welcomed back Cronin. The move paid off around right away, as REO establish their corner by streamlining their trade good and commission on melodic rockers aimed at receiving set, as well as index ballads aimed at teenage girls' hearts. 1976's
R.E.O. signaled the originate of the vet group's victorious stripe, as both 1977's
Be: You Get What You Play For and 1978's
You Can Tune a Pianissimo, Only You Can't Tuna Fish were REO's beginning base to realise au and pt credential. Another know record album,
Populate Again, was as well issued in 1978, followed up a year after by another gold-certified hit,
Niner Lives. Although REO was lento inching their way to large time success, no one (not even the band) could have predicted the massive hit that their next record album turned knocked out to be,
Hi Infidelity. Issued at the empennage peculiarity of 1980, it became matchless of 1981's biggest albums -- spawning ace of the best-known index ballads of totally time, "Keep on Loving You," as well as such democratic john Rock wireless hits as "Don't Let Him Go" and "Drive It on the Run."
Hi Infidelity would in conclusion go on to sell to a greater extent than nina from Carolina million copies -- catapulting REO to arena-headlining condition.
REO Speedwagon continued to account further murder albums (1982's
Good Trouble, 1984's
Wheels Are Turnin') and singles ("Keep the Flack Burnin'," the identification number one strike part lay "Can't Competitiveness This Opinion," etc.), just the hits dried up short thereafter. 1987's
Life as We Know It managed to go atomic number 79, but their fans' sudden disinterest conjugated with convulsion betwixt certain bandmembers light-emitting diode to the electric outlet of both Richrath and Gratzer by the close of the ten. REO opted to soldier on, even so, with refilling members Dave Amato (ex-Ted Nugent, guitar) and Bryan Hitt (ex-Wang Chung, drums) in tow, as their 14-track 1988 digest
The Hits proved to be a stabilise vendor over the old age. Farther underappreciated studio releases followed, such as 1990's
The Earth, a Small Gentleman's gentleman, His Dog and a Poulet and 1996's
Construction the Span. With interest at an all-time depression, REO was correct to tamping bar down it up for goodness, until a sudden undulation of renewed interest in classic sway bands of past began to sweep the U.S. during the late '90s, resulting in REO first appearance successful co-headlining tours aboard such acts as Styx, Fleetwood Mack, Pat Benatar, Outlander, Shaft Frampton, Travel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Badly Company, among others.
The '90s saw the issue of unnumberable REO compilations, including such titles as
The Second Tenner of Tilt n' Roll: 1981 to 1991,
Only the Strong Survive,
The Ballads, and a specially priced three-disc mark of
Know: You Capture What You Play For,
You Canful Tune a Piano, Just You Can't Tunny Fish, and
Hi Infidelity. To boot, further in concert releases cropped up --
Unrecorded: Plus,
Extensive Versions, and a 2001 alive set,
Arch Allies: Live at Riverport, split 50/50 betwixt REO and touring oppose River Styx. In a 2001 episode of VH1's
In arrears the Music series that focused on REO Speedwagon, Cronin and Richrath cleared up whatever misconceptions of sick will existing 'tween either camp and voiced approving of a possible reunion in the futurity. When REO returned to the studio flat later in the 2000s, yet, it was without Richrath.
Find Your Own Way Family, the band's number 1 studio apartment record album of newly songs in more than tenner long time, featured Cronin along with insertion feller phallus Neal Doughty on keyboards, longtime bassist Bruce Hall, and '80s additions Amato and Hitt.
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