| 1977 | Founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wally Palmar, Jimmy Marinos, Mike Skill, and Rich Cole with a sound fusing accessible pop melodies with the raw energy of Motor City punk and British Invasion guitar. |
| 1980 | Released the self-titled debut album featuring power-pop gem "That's What I Like About You," which peaked at number 49 on its initial release but became a cornerstone of early MTV programming and classic rock radio. |
| 1981 | Released 'Strictly Personal,' deepening the band's catalog before their commercial breakthrough and cementing their status on the Detroit rock scene. |
| 1983 | 'In Heat' became the Romantics' best-selling album, going gold on the strength of top-ten hit singles "Talking in Your Sleep" and "One in a Million." |
| 1990 | Released 'What I Like About You (and Other Romantic Hits),' a compilation that introduced the band's classic era to a new generation of rock radio listeners. |
| 2006 | Released 'Visited By The 80s,' revisiting the era that made them a staple of new wave and power-pop radio and demonstrating continued relevance to classic-rock programmers. |
| 2019 | Released 'The 80s: The Romantics,' a retrospective collection that reinforced "That's What I Like About You" and "Talking in Your Sleep" as enduring touchstones of the decade. |
| 2023 | Released the single "Route 66" and continued playing festivals and casino venues as a premier classic rock draw, with "That's What I Like About You" still inviting full-crowd singalongs at every performance. |
| 2024 | Released 'New Sensation (Live Royal Oak '80),' a 14-track live album capturing their early Detroit shows, while performing at the Totally Tubular Festival in Greenwood Village, Colorado. |
| 2025 | Toured with Toto including a stop at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Michigan, keeping the band before arena-scale audiences more than four decades after "Talking in Your Sleep" first hit the top ten. |
Building a local following with their live show, the Romantics’ 1980 self-titled full-length debut album is often considered to be the quartet’s best due to the inclusion of such gems as “When I Look in Your Eyes,” a cover of Ray Davies’ “She’s Got Everything,” and one of the Romantics’ best-known tracks: the power pop gem “That’s What I Like About You.” Although the latter track peaked at only number 49 when originally released as a single, it later became an early MTV favorite and classic rock radio standard. 1983’s In Heat would become the Romantics’ best-selling album (going gold shortly after its release) on the strength of Top Ten hit singles “Talking in Your Sleep” and “One in a Million.” The Romantics continue to be a big draw in venues across the country.