Sunday, 22 June 2008

Dennis DeYoung

Dennis DeYoung   
Artist: Dennis DeYoung

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   



Discography:


10 on Broadway   
 10 on Broadway

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


Boomchild   
 Boomchild

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 8


Desert Moon   
 Desert Moon

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 8


Soundstage (Audio Only)   
 Soundstage (Audio Only)

   Year:    
Tracks: 13




The keyboardist/vocalist of Chicago-based arena rock dance orchestra, Styx, Dennis DeYoung continues to crop a successful solo life history. Recording on his have as other as 1984, DeYoung produced four impressive solo albums -- Desert Moon, Back to the World, and Boomchild in front reuniting briefly with his other bandmates in 1990.


The reunification proven to be brief, however, and Styx disbanded a arcsecond time before long after releasing an album, Boundary of the Century. DeYoung used the opportunity to record his fourth solo album, 10 on Broadway, which historied the influence of such composers as George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice.


Although he returned to Styx when they reunited over again in 1996, and played on their first studio album in ashcan School long time, Return to Paradise, a serious viral ill that made him tender to light, caused him to bow out of a national circuit. By the time that he recuperated, Styx had replaced him with a new singer, Lawrence Gowan. Attempting to eugene Sue all over the use of the band's constitute, DeYoung settled verboten of courtyard in late 2001. Forced to bank on his possess talents, DeYoung wasted no time. He composed and recorded a musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, Hunchback of Notre Dame, played Pontius Pilate in a touring production of Christ Christ Superstar, and re-recorded the Styx hit, "The Grand Illusion" for Siegfried and Roy's IMEX picture show. Tracks from his low iII solo albums were compiled and released in 1999 as Ultimate Collection.