''Return to Paradise'' is the second

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by Styx, released in 1997, and their first album after signing with

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. It features songs from their successful reunion tour with

Tommy Shaw Tommy Roland Shaw (born September 11, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for his tenure in the rock band Styx (band), Styx as co-lead vocalist. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups includi ...

, but without

John Panozzo John Anthony Panozzo (September 20, 1948 – July 16, 1996) was an American drummer best known for his work with rock band Styx. Early life and career Panozzo grew up in the Roseland neighborhood, the south side of Chicago, Illinois, with hi ...

, who died in July 1996. It includes three new studio tracks, "On My Way," "Paradise," and "Dear John." Shaw wrote the latter as a tribute to Panozzo, while "Paradise" featured upon

Dennis DeYoung Dennis DeYoung (born February 18, 1947) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a founding member of the rock band Styx, and served as its primary lead vocalist and keyboardist from 1972 until 1999. DeYoung was th ...

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and was newly recorded with the band.

Track listing

Disc 1 #"On My Way" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:02 #"

Paradise In religion, paradise is a place of exceptional happiness and delight. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical or eschatological or both, often compared to the miseries of human civilization: in paradis ...

" (Dennis DeYoung) – 4:29 #"A.D. 1928" / "

Rockin' the Paradise "A.D. 1928 / Rockin' the Paradise" is a song by American rock band Styx, released as the fourth single from their tenth album '' Paradise Theatre''. The song peaked at No. 8 on the ''Billboard'' Rock Chart. "A.D. 1928" is a short, piano-based son ...

" (Dennis DeYoung, James Young, Tommy Shaw) – 5:23 #" Blue Collar Man" (Tommy Shaw) – 4:34 #"

Lady The word ''lady'' is a term for a girl or woman, with various connotations. Once used to describe only women of a high social class or status, the equivalent of lord, now it may refer to any adult woman, as gentleman can be used for men. Inform ...

" (Dennis DeYoung) – 3:28 #"

Too Much Time on My Hands "Too Much Time on My Hands" is a song by American rock band Styx, released as the second single from their tenth album '' Paradise Theatre''. It was written and sung by Tommy Shaw, who also plays the lead guitar solo during the break in the song. ...

" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:43 #" Snowblind" (James Young, Dennis DeYoung) – 5:26 #" Suite Madame Blue" (Dennis DeYoung) – 8:31 #"

Crystal Ball A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum or crystal sphere, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune-telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular. In more recent times, the cry ...

" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:56 Disc 2 #"

The Grand Illusion ''The Grand Illusion'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Styx. Recorded at Paragon Recording Studios in Chicago, the album was released on July 7, 1977, by A&M Records. (Intentionally choosing the combination 7th on 7-7-77 f ...

" (Dennis DeYoung) – 6:50 #"

Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is the second single released from Styx's ''The Grand Illusion'' (1977) album. On the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop chart in the U.S., the single peaked at #29 in April 1978. It also hit no. 20 on the Canada ...

" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:54 #" Show Me the Way" (Dennis DeYoung) – 5:11 #"

Boat on the River "Boat on the River" is a 1979 song by Styx, from their album ''Cornerstone''. It was released as a single in 1980 in various countries, but not in the band's native United States, where " Borrowed Time" was released instead. It was popular in ...

" (Tommy Shaw) – 3:16 #"

Lorelei The Lorelei ( ; ), spelled Loreley in German, is a , steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. Th ...

" (Dennis DeYoung, James Young) – 4:03 #"

Babe Babe or babes may refer to: * Babe, a term of endearment * A newborn baby * An attractive (especially female) person People Nickname * Babe Adams (1882–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Babe Barna (1917–1972), American Maj ...

" (Dennis DeYoung) – 4:50 #"Miss America" (James Young) – 6:15 #"

Come Sail Away "Come Sail Away" is a song by American progressive rock group Styx, written and sung by singer and songwriter Dennis DeYoung and featured on the band's seventh album ''The Grand Illusion'' (1977). Upon its release as the lead single from the a ...

" (Dennis DeYoung) – 8:33 #"

Renegade Renegade or The Renegade may refer to: Aircraft *Lake Renegade, an American amphibious aircraft design *Murphy Renegade, a Canadian ultralight biplane design *Southern Aeronautical Renegade, an American racing aircraft design Games *'' Comman ...

" (Tommy Shaw) – 6:01 #" The Best of Times/A.D. 1958" (Dennis DeYoung) – 7:42 #"Dear John" (Tommy Shaw) – 3:03 * Newly recorded studio tracks

Personnel

Styx

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

– vocals, acoustic and

electric guitars An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

* James "JY" Young – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards *

Chuck Panozzo Charles Salvatore Panozzo (born September 20, 1948) is an American musician best known as a co-founder of the rock band Styx. He is currently a part-time bass player in the band, sharing bass duties with Ricky Phillips. Panozzo suffers from HIV ...

– bass, vocals *

Todd Sucherman Todd Sucherman (born May 2, 1969) is an American drummer, who is best known for having been a member of Styx since March 1995. Early life Sucherman grew up in a musical family and followed in his father's footsteps by playing the drums. His f ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Production

* Producer: Dennis DeYoung * Engineer: Timothy R. Powell * Mixing: Dennis DeYoung, Gary Loizzo * Art direction: Ioannis, Linda Loiewski * Design: Ioannis * Illustrations: Ioannis * Digital painting: Ioannis * Photography: Mark Weiss

Charts

Singles

References

External links

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