Music Monday: Styx/Return to Paradise

At this point, Styx has gotten back together due to reconciliation and a renewed popularity partially due to the release of their greatest hits album. They embarked on a reunion tour with everyone on board, except John Panozzo. If you remember Todd Sucherman had taken over for him for the "Lady '95" re-recording because he was fighting an illness. Before they embarked on the tour, they asked John to stay behind and get healthy while Todd would continue to fill in for him. John would never play with the band again. On July 16th, 1996 John Panozzo passed away from complications due to alcoholism. The band had lost one of its founding members. Styx dedicated the rest of the remaining tour to John. This tour was captured on Return to Paradise.

Music Monday: Styx/Greatest Hits

Styx - Classics, Volume 15 is a greatest hits compilation for the band Styx, released in 1987 by A&M Records as part of A&M's classics series of greatest hits albums for artists on its label. Like Best of Styx (one of my favorites that I covered here), this compilation is label-exclusive. Therefore it only contains Styx's hits on the A&M label. This means it excludes Styx's significant hit "Lady", which was recorded for Wooden Nickel Records.

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