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REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon first formed in 1968, but 1976 was the
beginning of the veteran group's winning streak, as both '77s Live: You
Get What You Play For and '78s You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna
Fish were REO's first to earn gold and platinum certification. Another
live album, Live Again, was also issued in 1978, followed up a year later
by another gold-certified hit, Nine Lives. Although REO was slowly inching
their way to big-time success, no one could have predicted the massive
hit that their next album turned out to be, Hi Infidelity. Issued at the
tail-end of 1980, it became one of '81s biggest albums -- spawning one
of the best-known power ballads of all-time, "Keep on Loving You,"
as well as such popular rock radio hits as "Don't Let Him Go"
and "Take It on the Run." Hi Infidelity would eventually go
on to sell more than nine million copies -- catapulting REO to arena headlining
status.
REO Speedwagon continued to score further hit albums (1982's Good Trouble,
'84s Wheels Are Turnin') and singles ("Keep the Fire Burnin',"
the number one hit power ballad "Can't Fight This Feeling").
Things slowed down for the band for a few years until a sudden wave of
renewed interest in classic rock bands of yesteryear began to sweep the
U.S. during the late '90s, resulting in REO launching successful co-headlining
tours alongside such acts as Styx, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Foreigner,
Peter Frampton, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bad Company, among others.
The '90s saw the emergence of countless REO compilations, including such
titles as The Second Decade of Rock n' Roll: 1981 to 1991, Only the Strong
Survive, The Ballads, and a specially priced three-disc set of Live: You
Get What You Play For, You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish,
and Hi Infidelity. Additionally, further in-concert releases cropped up
-- Live: Plus, Extended Versions, and a 2001 live set, Arch Allies: Live
at Riverport, split fifty/fifty between REO and touring mates Styx. In
a 2001 episode of VH1's Behind the Music series that focused on REO Speedwagon,
Cronin and Richrath cleared up any misconceptions of ill will existing
between either camp, and voiced approval of a possible reunion in the
future. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
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