Some will tell you that DeYoung's motive for creating these increasingly elaborate and message-laden shows was to gain critical acceptance. Dennis DeYoung, born February 18, 1947, is a solo pop musician but is better known as one of the lead vocalists of the band Styx. I was the only Sox fan in the group. Now that's very important, because my parents wouldn't let me date until I was 16. "Hey, but not that different. Given where we had come from and how long we'd been friends, I was devastated.". The group toured extensively before A&M Records (which had just merged with PolyGram Records) dropped the group from its roster in 1992; the group broke up again shortly afterwards. His wife Suzanne and sister-in-law Dawn Marie Feusi sang backup, his daughter Carrie Ann was in charge of publicity, while his son Matthew designed the stage lighting. As a parent you occasionally get things right. We knew we were good, but we started to have serious doubts about our music and about our futures.". AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME Comment data is processed studio album and first in over a decade, Chuck . Standing in the Joint, a concert room at the Hard Rock Casino-Hotel in Las Vegas one Friday night in October, it is possible for a few hundred people to believe, with their eyes closed, that they have been transported back at least a couple of decades. was driving a cab. His height is 1.77 m tall, and his weight is 78 kg. He also included his wife Suzanne to the group for solo works. I don't think anybody ever thought of this as a breakup in any permanent sense. He is also a self-grown keyboardist. On September 14 and 15, 2006, DeYoung appeared with Hal Sparks on Celebrity Duets, an American reality television show produced by Simon Cowell. The band recorded a new version of "Lady," which became the lead track ("Lady '95") of a new compilation album, Styx Greatest Hits, for A&M. But DeYoung is doing things a bit differently. We have been through it all together, and sometimes it's just a great relief to let his music take me back to a time when we were both so young.". Of course, you have to look at the guy who wrote and sang those particular songs and many others, keyboardist-singer Dennis DeYoung: The talented musician's pop sensibilities may have brought the band some huge hits, but after he left the group, Styx utterly refused to play "Mr. Roboto"live until very recent years. 1". In any configuration, the band does not have a name. Giving up the ghosts - Chicago Tribune "Those were hard times: We played beer parties, 'Animal House'-type affairs, a lot of proms. Dennis De Young recaptures Styx's prog glory with new - loudersound Both were children of the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); You have entered an incorrect email address! "Even though producers desperate for younger audiences have been coaxing such rock composers as Randy Newman, Jimmy Buffett and Billy Joel to write for Broadway, Disney executives put the word out that they did not appreciate competition," says Tribune theater critic Chris Jones, who has heard the music from DeYoung's musical and calls it a "stirring and catchy pop-Broadway score.