Any fan of Chicago knows exactly who Peter Cetera is, and was...all the way back to the very beginning. By the second album, they had definitely hit it big and the notoriety was there. I believe that THEY thought they were name less as individuals, however the fans (you know, the important people) knew them all. I remember very distinctly, a live radio broad cast with certain band member of Chicago, immediately following a concert at the Spectrum in Philly. We all listened to that interview with our ears still ringing from the show on the way home. I remember Peter saying very distinctly..."Man, if I die tomorrow I know I have seven brothers who would go down right alongside me." That was mid 70's.
Of course he sounded "just like Chicago"! He had become the voice of Chicago over the years, with their later hits being exclusively sung by him. Why? Because his was the voice that sold records!
❤️ I LOOOOVE this wonderful man's voice! It goes so sharply right into your heart without mercy! One of my ABSOLUTE favorite male voices! One of the VERY few voices that actually makes me cry. Thank you Peter Cetera!❤️I'm a sing and song writer and your music have always meant so much to me!💕🎶 I hope you'll come to Sweden soon again! And PLEASE, PLEEEEASE, NEVER stop singing! 😍
It's like John Fogerty. You cannot change the fact that a vocalist sounds a certain way. There will be similarities in sounds and styles with other musical projects they do.
I guess it would Be Hard for Him to say He's Sorry, lol. And really not necessary. The "Ceteraness" of Chicago was due entirely to Peter Cetera who brought his wonderful abilities to the group but those abilities and talents ultimately belong to Peter Cetera!
I am addicted to the original seven in Chicago. I cannot think of a band with that kind of pure talent anywhere, at least in the States. They were a different bands for the most part until the devastating death of Terry Kath. He is considered one of the greatest guitar talents ever. Lamms soulful vocals and songwriting carried Chicago on the early years. I feel that Cetera is the greatest rock tenor of all time, with Robin Gibb a close second. Well, I should also mention Freddy Mercury here as well.
Three success stories came out of the 'Original Seven', Chicago. The short lived talents of Terry Kath, whose daughter Michele has said, her father would have left Chicago by the time the band reached the Foster era. Most likely a new blues project either solo or a new band, (and possibly with Danny, since they played well off each other). The other 2 success stories; Danny Seraphine fronting a more jazzier group, CTA. And third, of course, Peter Cetera, who has had many rewarding years as a soloist and concert act. All the while, the 'original' band morphed into a tribute band playing songs from 40 years ago.
PapaG Cortellino Wow, Michelle Kath was pretty knowledgeable about her fathers deepest feelings and his desire to move musically in a different direction, that is for a 20 month old child. She was born May 19, 1976. Terry capped himself January 23, 1978. I'm not saying that she's wrong. I'm just saying that she's offering hearsay that she got from her mother and his movie. Everyone, after all the dust settled from the band breakup knew that he had been planning at least a solo outing if not altogether going off in a different direction, which was more likely had he been alive when Cetera left. However, she regrettably never even knew her father. She knows as much about his plans and musical intent as anyone else who talked to her mother and watched him on his video movie tapes. Just sayin', She's no font of heretofore unrealized knowledge and wisdom.
You can't really blame Peter for wanting people to know the songs he wrote while in the band Chicago or as a solo artist. I would say that he has accomplished what he set-out to do.
Great to hear this interview. I am just as big a fan of his solo work as I am of his days with Chicago & his albums from 1986-1992 were fantastic. I only wish he would do a reunion with Chicago & a new original solo album but sadly it looks like he has no interest in doing either of those. He's still one of the all time greats though.
Thanks for the update.. cant they just get together for one huge concert!? it can be for charity? The fans are wanting this.. but sometimes its not about the fans.. EGO has a lot to do with any band too bad
Kate Maloney hahaha. Yeah, I don’t watch or listen to live stuff of them singing Peter’s lead on songs. It’s just terrible. But still love Lamm’s stuff and even Champlin’s too.
Without Cetera, Danny and Kath the band totally lost it. Got a bit of momentum with Bill and then they got rid of him. Now the band is a good tribute band with only 3 original members. Loved them in the beginning. They were hungry and raw and wrote some pretty fine material.
I like Peter Cetera, he is the reason I Picked up Bass, and since I sang Tenor as well it was a natural progression for me to do his stuff in two bands I was in that could/would do his stuff. But Cetera was not repeat NOT great with the hard rock sound that he craved to do at one time; on his solo work he did that first Album and had a Hard edge song called Holy Moly, not good, and with Chicago songs like Little Miss Lovin missed the mark because he was not a hard edged rocker.Its nothing to be ashamed of; I once was bounced from an interview because I couldn't sing a song from Bad Company (Cant Get enough of your Love). and Ironically in my time in Music I often started as a Bassist but got moved over to Lead Vocals so its not like I couldn't sing ( an old roomie and keyboard player on the road once said to me, It's not that you are a bad Bassist, you are just a better singer....I always thought that was a subtle way of saying I sucked on Bass, I once was a Bassist for an all Black Band that did Funk, R&B/Jazz so I didn't totally suck at Bass.Peter Cetera was and is a great vocalist, and a well respected Bassist; but hard Rock was not his Forte, and humility was also something he struggled with at times too.I will confess, when he opted not to appear at the RRHOF induction, I was upset with him; I felt he owed it to his fans, his longtime friends in that band and to the memory of Terry Kath whom was one of his best friends in the band, but more importantly he owed to his daughters a chance to see him rewarded for his talent in his youth. They would have liked it and so would have us all.
I’m pretty sure Solitude/Solitaire was his first solo album. It was 1986. Glory of Love, Next Time I Fall. Uptempo ones I loved. Great album. I bought his first four albums.
He released a solo album the year before Chicago 16 came out, just called Peter Cetera. It wasn't promoted, and it didn't sell well, but it had a lot of great musicians on it. Livin' in the Limelight is a solid track.
Thanks, John, and really, any artist should be free to do whatever he or she wants, and their success in the past should simply be appreciated, not turned into a boat anchor. I saw Chicago perform in Frankfurt, West Germany in '77 just before I graduated from Frankfurt American High School and it was great to be there--the Offenbach Stadthalle--with friends just a month or so before we would all scatter and return to the States. So a big thanks to Chicago for putting on a show for us when we were military dependents.
Its because he was the former lead vocalist of that band..he can even hire a horn section and sound exactly like Chicago..Cetera is Chicago,not robert plamm
@@justatalismanpassingby4106 The voice is usually the identity of a soloist or a key group member. People aren't paying to go see who wrote a song. All Cetera did was make his personal name known alongside of his well known voice. I can't blame him for that. Chicago wasn't giving him credit, for producing or other behind the scenes contributions. The jealousy in the band, drove Cetera out.
I'd venture to say that fans of Chicago post 1981 have no idea who Terry Kath was. The band appealed to a VERY different audience when Cetera/Foster took the lead on the sound. If you think "Hard Habit to Break" was Chicago's best song, you're a post '81 fan. Nothing wrong with that, other than you're ignoring the 'beginnings' of one of the great rock bands of the late 60's and 70's. To each their own. Cetera has a great voice, but man, the gloating and delicate ego he has is a bit too much to listen to. Ironic considering Prima Donna was a Chicago song.
That makes no sense, My dad was not a fan of Chicago until the 80's, But he knew who Terry Kath was lol It is called watching interviews when live on TV, Or documentaries on TV, Interviews in Magazines etc My mate is not a fan of Duran Duran but knows who Andy Taylor is and that he was in it from 1980-1986 and then when he came back for the reunion in the early 2000's lol Just common knowledge and in pop culture lol
For me, Peter Cetera was only a love song/ballad writer and ruined the harder rock edge Chicago had under the leadership of the late great Terry Kath. The band's heart and soul died along with him and they turned into adult contemporary mush with Cetera's writing. I guess I'm an old rock & roller at heart.
Agreed that the band got mushier with Kath's death. But it was the *band's* decision to go more middle-of-the-road and push Cetera out front. They chose the big bucks over musical integrity because with Kath gone they only had one push-the-envelope creative type left in the band -- Bobby Lamm. He, alone, couldn't pull enough influence with the rest of the band after Kath died. Kath was the band's leader, musically, and he was also more of a push-the-limits creatively guy.
Lol! You know it cracks me up to hear over and over how Cetera ruined Chicago. Even a few band members mentioned this in a few interviews I saw. But yet...all the albums since Peter left have still sounded the same. Even brought in a replacement that a lot feel sounds like Cetera. Why not go in a different musical direction if you didn’t like the type of stuff being put out previously? And, didn’t hear that any band members giving back any of the giant checks written to them when those monster hits Cetera and Foster were writing on 16 and 17. It’s ridiculous.
Kate Maloney agree. You can add “If You Leave Me Now” to that list. Terry Kath was still alive when this was recorded. So I don’t get all the hate with Cetera. They were a great Band. PERIOD!
Daniel Fronc why does it bother you that he has an ego? I’d say that his 50+ year career has afforded him every right to have an ago. Besides, he has a huge fan base including myself and a musical library that encapsulates my youth! Singer, producer, bass player and writer, yeah, he has every right!
Too much ego for my liking. He’s great, great voice, big hits, blah blah, but don’t like this interview. He was in a super successful band but that wasn’t good enough for him. Had to be Me Me Me, look at me!
Peter Cetera RUINED Chicago. .... He changed them from a Progressive Rock-Soul Mega Band into an Air Supply style Lounge Act and then into NOTHING. . ... If he "sounds like Chicago" now, (and I do not wanna hear ANY OF IT), we should say that he sounds like Peter Cetera's Post Chicago Lounge Act For Little Old Ladies.
what a load of BS you just posted. They wouldn't even be in business today if he hadn't kept them afloat when he was able to write with the times in the 80s. I get you like 70s Chicago. Cool. You are entitled to that, but Pete played his role perfectly in both eras.
No. If anybody was ruining Chicago back in the day, it was Donnie dacus. I believe after 3 failed albums and being kicked off their record label, Peter Cetera stuff you're condemning is what saved Chicago.
Chicago had one truly great song (Hard habit to break) which was not written by Cetera, and you can tell, because all the songs he wrote were utter drivel.
Robert G. Yeah, I'd have to concur with you on that. Chicago did write many great songs, including Pankows contributions but Hard Habit To Break is not one I'd brag about as being a favorite of mine. No way, no how.
Drivel to you but these songs, the songs he wrote were the soundtrack to my youth. It’s ok to have a mix of tempos on albums you know. The 80’s brought the power ballads, so what, he didn’t write them alone and it filled their pockets plenty. Let’s not forget their dry spell from 79-81, David Foster brought them out of the doldrums and yes, with a few power ballads. Truly only Hard to Say I’m Sorry and You’re The Inspiration were ballads, the others were up tempo. Pankow wrote a power ballad Just you ‘n me, and then there was their first number 1 hit all over the globe IYLMN which was a beautiful song. Not every piece of music needs to blow the wallpaper off the walls. He’s a lyricist and writes and sings from the heart. Acknowledge it or not but his music was anything but drivel.
I have always hated Chicago's music, even as a kid. It's just nauseating mush that makes me want to be violently sick. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and that is mine.
Eric George Well, golly gee. Thank you for letting us know that. Are there any other bands in the fifty years Chicagos been making music that you also feel similarly about? I mean why make us wander through TH-cam to find your other little droppings when you can just let us know here. You know we all feel similarly about the music of a great many other successful bands but don't feel the need to go to their sites and assassinate their character or quality of their music but hey, it's a free world.
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Seriously underrated bass Guitarist.
Pete's bass lines are amazing!!!
Pete Cetera was 80% Chicago, but people did not know. He defined their sound.
Any fan of Chicago knows exactly who Peter Cetera is, and was...all the way back to the very beginning. By the second album, they had definitely hit it big and the notoriety was there. I believe that THEY thought they were name less as individuals, however the fans (you know, the important people) knew them all. I remember very distinctly, a live radio broad cast with certain band member of Chicago, immediately following a concert at the Spectrum in Philly. We all listened to that interview with our ears still ringing from the show on the way home. I remember Peter saying very distinctly..."Man, if I die tomorrow I know I have seven brothers who would go down right alongside me." That was mid 70's.
So what's your point?
Thanks, John, you’ve landed into a gold mine with this lost interview.
Of course he sounded "just like Chicago"! He had become the voice of Chicago over the years, with their later hits being exclusively sung by him. Why? Because his was the voice that sold records!
Absolutely! ! 👍
Cetera voice of Chicago lust like Fogerty is the voice of CCR. simple as that
❤️ I LOOOOVE this wonderful man's voice! It goes so sharply right into your heart without mercy! One of my ABSOLUTE favorite male voices! One of the VERY few voices that actually makes me cry. Thank you Peter Cetera!❤️I'm a sing and song writer and your music have always meant so much to me!💕🎶 I hope you'll come to Sweden soon again! And PLEASE, PLEEEEASE, NEVER stop singing! 😍
As that beer commercial claimed a few years ago claimed, "The ladies love Peter Cetera".
I actually picked up one of his solo album at a used record store not too long ago, it was better than i expected it. Quite liked it
It's like John Fogerty. You cannot change the fact that a vocalist sounds a certain way. There will be similarities in sounds and styles with other musical projects they do.
Peter Cetera is what makes Chicago so good.
And not the harmonies and the music except the guitar and bass
Peter Cetera and John Fogerty have so much in common. and i love them both.
You know Cetera is right. He couldn't leave Chicago without his sound. The music business is not about messing up too much. He had to stay on top.
I guess it would Be Hard for Him to say He's Sorry, lol. And really not necessary. The "Ceteraness" of Chicago was due entirely to Peter Cetera who brought his wonderful abilities to the group but those abilities and talents ultimately belong to Peter Cetera!
Thanks for watching everyone.
I am addicted to the original seven in Chicago. I cannot think of a band with that kind of pure talent anywhere, at least in the States. They were a different bands for the most part until the devastating death of Terry Kath. He is considered one of the greatest guitar talents ever. Lamms soulful vocals and songwriting carried Chicago on the early years. I feel that Cetera is the greatest rock tenor of all time, with Robin Gibb a close second. Well, I should also mention Freddy Mercury here as well.
Freddie is like a Tenor & Baritone Balance well.
Three success stories came out of the 'Original Seven', Chicago. The short lived talents of Terry Kath, whose daughter Michele has said, her father would have left Chicago by the time the band reached the Foster era. Most likely a new blues project either solo or a new band, (and possibly with Danny, since they played well off each other). The other 2 success stories; Danny Seraphine fronting a more jazzier group, CTA. And third, of course, Peter Cetera, who has had many rewarding years as a soloist and concert act. All the while, the 'original' band morphed into a tribute band playing songs from 40 years ago.
PapaG Cortellino Wow, Michelle Kath was pretty knowledgeable about her fathers deepest feelings and his desire to move musically in a different direction, that is for a 20 month old child. She was born May 19, 1976. Terry capped himself January 23, 1978. I'm not saying that she's wrong. I'm just saying that she's offering hearsay that she got from her mother and his movie. Everyone, after all the dust settled from the band breakup knew that he had been planning at least a solo outing if not altogether going off in a different direction, which was more likely had he been alive when Cetera left. However, she regrettably never even knew her father. She knows as much about his plans and musical intent as anyone else who talked to her mother and watched him on his video movie tapes. Just sayin', She's no font of heretofore unrealized knowledge and wisdom.
Danny wanted to be on Chicago 21 but the Band told him no so they got Tris Imboden to do that one
Peter wrote and sang many of the songs with Chicago. Chicago was Peter Cetera during the 80’s.
Want to see Cetera perform with Bill Champlin and dawayne bailey..
My name is Peter Cetera, I officially apologize to Robert and James for sounding like Peter Cetera
You can't really blame Peter for wanting people to know the songs he wrote while in the band Chicago or as a solo artist. I would say that he has accomplished what he set-out to do.
Great to hear this interview. I am just as big a fan of his solo work as I am of his days with Chicago & his albums from 1986-1992 were fantastic. I only wish he would do a reunion with Chicago & a new original solo album but sadly it looks like he has no interest in doing either of those. He's still one of the all time greats though.
Chicagos Stuff Between 1986 and 1992 had Scheff doing the Cetera Parts
I still like his Chicago era songs though.
peter cetera is Chicago also
Thanks for the update.. cant they just get together for one huge concert!? it can be for charity?
The fans are wanting this.. but sometimes its not about the fans.. EGO has a lot to do with any band
too bad
Not gonna happen. Too many big egos.
Kate Maloney hahaha. Yeah, I don’t watch or listen to live stuff of them singing Peter’s lead on songs. It’s just terrible. But still love Lamm’s stuff and even Champlin’s too.
Stupid question to ask Peter cetera.That is his voice. Whether he is solo, a member of Chicago , that’s how he sounds.
Without Cetera, Danny and Kath the band totally lost it. Got a bit of momentum with Bill and then they got rid of him. Now the band is a good tribute band with only 3 original members. Loved them in the beginning. They were hungry and raw and wrote
some pretty fine material.
Unlike some wines, bands don't improve with age.
There is a Rolling Stones tribute band playing these days too, headed by some guys named Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Peter Cetera was the X factor in Chicago. I can't put a face to the rest of them.
Lamm can be Chicago's Face if he wants to...
If it sounds the same it's because he was writing the songs with David Foster.
I like Peter Cetera, he is the reason I Picked up Bass, and since I sang Tenor as well it was a natural progression for me to do his stuff in two bands I was in that could/would do his stuff. But Cetera was not repeat NOT great with the hard rock sound that he craved to do at one time; on his solo work he did that first Album and had a Hard edge song called Holy Moly, not good, and with Chicago songs like Little Miss Lovin missed the mark because he was not a hard edged rocker.Its nothing to be ashamed of; I once was bounced from an interview because I couldn't sing a song from Bad Company (Cant Get enough of your Love). and Ironically in my time in Music I often started as a Bassist but got moved over to Lead Vocals so its not like I couldn't sing ( an old roomie and keyboard player on the road once said to me, It's not that you are a bad Bassist, you are just a better singer....I always thought that was a subtle way of saying I sucked on Bass, I once was a Bassist for an all Black Band that did Funk, R&B/Jazz so I didn't totally suck at Bass.Peter Cetera was and is a great vocalist, and a well respected Bassist; but hard Rock was not his Forte, and humility was also something he struggled with at times too.I will confess, when he opted not to appear at the RRHOF induction, I was upset with him; I felt he owed it to his fans, his longtime friends in that band and to the memory of Terry Kath whom was one of his best friends in the band, but more importantly he owed to his daughters a chance to see him rewarded for his talent in his youth. They would have liked it and so would have us all.
Not McCartney or Sting?
I’m pretty sure Solitude/Solitaire was his first solo album. It was 1986. Glory of Love, Next Time I Fall. Uptempo ones I loved. Great album. I bought his first four albums.
First solo came out in 1981 when he was still in Chicago. Way better than any of the other ones that followed.
He released a solo album the year before Chicago 16 came out, just called Peter Cetera. It wasn't promoted, and it didn't sell well, but it had a lot of great musicians on it. Livin' in the Limelight is a solid track.
Thanks, John, and really, any artist should be free to do whatever he or she wants, and their success in the past should simply be appreciated, not turned into a boat anchor. I saw Chicago perform in Frankfurt, West Germany in '77 just before I graduated from Frankfurt American High School and it was great to be there--the Offenbach Stadthalle--with friends just a month or so before we would all scatter and return to the States. So a big thanks to Chicago for putting on a show for us when we were military dependents.
Good find!!
Its because he was the former lead vocalist of that band..he can even hire a horn section and sound exactly like Chicago..Cetera is Chicago,not robert plamm
Why would you say that?
Woah woah take it easy! Lamm WAS Chicago, he wrote most of the Hits in the early years...
@@justatalismanpassingby4106 The voice is usually the identity of a soloist or a key group member. People aren't paying to go see who wrote a song. All Cetera did was make his personal name known alongside of his well known voice. I can't blame him for that. Chicago wasn't giving him credit, for producing or other behind the scenes contributions. The jealousy in the band, drove Cetera out.
He doesn't need to defend anything. He was Chicago.
He wrote the meters.
Chicago is a great band. With or without Peter.
Glory of love sounded like a chicago song. But not surprising, he did that with David Foster. So it's very chicagoish
Love his voice and songs but not his ego!!
Cetera is to the US what Sting is to the UK...
I'd venture to say that fans of Chicago post 1981 have no idea who Terry Kath was. The band appealed to a VERY different audience when Cetera/Foster took the lead on the sound. If you think "Hard Habit to Break" was Chicago's best song, you're a post '81 fan. Nothing wrong with that, other than you're ignoring the 'beginnings' of one of the great rock bands of the late 60's and 70's. To each their own. Cetera has a great voice, but man, the gloating and delicate ego he has is a bit too much to listen to. Ironic considering Prima Donna was a Chicago song.
That makes no sense,
My dad was not a fan of Chicago until the 80's, But he knew who Terry Kath was lol
It is called watching interviews when live on TV, Or documentaries on TV, Interviews in Magazines etc
My mate is not a fan of Duran Duran but knows who Andy Taylor is and that he was in it from 1980-1986 and then when he came back for the reunion in the early 2000's lol
Just common knowledge and in pop culture lol
For me, Peter Cetera was only a love song/ballad writer and ruined the harder rock edge Chicago had under the leadership of the late great Terry Kath. The band's heart and soul died along with him and they turned into adult contemporary mush with Cetera's writing. I guess I'm an old rock & roller at heart.
Agreed that the band got mushier with Kath's death. But it was the *band's* decision to go more middle-of-the-road and push Cetera out front. They chose the big bucks over musical integrity because with Kath gone they only had one push-the-envelope creative type left in the band -- Bobby Lamm. He, alone, couldn't pull enough influence with the rest of the band after Kath died. Kath was the band's leader, musically, and he was also more of a push-the-limits creatively guy.
Lol! You know it cracks me up to hear over and over how Cetera ruined Chicago. Even a few band members mentioned this in a few interviews I saw. But yet...all the albums since Peter left have still sounded the same. Even brought in a replacement that a lot feel sounds like Cetera. Why not go in a different musical direction if you didn’t like the type of stuff being put out previously? And, didn’t hear that any band members giving back any of the giant checks written to them when those monster hits Cetera and Foster were writing on 16 and 17.
It’s ridiculous.
Kate Maloney agree. You can add “If You Leave Me Now” to that list.
Terry Kath was still alive when this was recorded. So I don’t get all the hate with Cetera. They were a great Band. PERIOD!
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Daniel Fronc why does it bother you that he has an ego? I’d say that his 50+ year career has afforded him every right to have an ago. Besides, he has a huge fan base including myself and a musical library that encapsulates my youth! Singer, producer, bass player and writer, yeah, he has every right!
Peter is the only comparison to Chicago...not his music...duh !
I love Cetera's love songs but he made Chicago sound like a cheesy good boys Reaganite band xD
Too much ego for my liking. He’s great, great voice, big hits, blah blah, but don’t like this interview. He was in a super successful band but that wasn’t good enough for him. Had to be Me Me Me, look at me!
Great talented guy, but with a huge ego.
Huge talent usually gives you a huge ego.
He has every right to have an ego. He earned it and completely deserves it. Love Peter Cetera. ❤️
Yep, like Don Henley!
With Cetera there was no ego involved. Jealous people love to throw that word "EGO" around when they can't find stones to pick up.
Why? Because he's successful? Interesting.
He's ok but bland nobody wants to be peter cetera in bedroom mirror
Your comment matches your picture.
This is how we feel about Sting in the UK.
Peter Cetera RUINED Chicago. .... He changed them from a Progressive Rock-Soul Mega Band into an Air Supply style Lounge Act and then into NOTHING. . ... If he "sounds like Chicago" now, (and I do not wanna hear ANY OF IT), we should say that he sounds like Peter Cetera's Post Chicago Lounge Act For Little Old Ladies.
what a load of BS you just posted. They wouldn't even be in business today if he hadn't kept them afloat when he was able to write with the times in the 80s. I get you like 70s Chicago. Cool. You are entitled to that, but Pete played his role perfectly in both eras.
Mark Marsh is one of those Peter Cetera haters. Envy does that to small-minded people.
No. If anybody was ruining Chicago back in the day, it was Donnie dacus. I believe after 3 failed albums and being kicked off their record label, Peter Cetera stuff you're condemning is what saved Chicago.
Dacus only did two album with Chicago. He did Hot Streets and Chicago 13.
Kate Maloney point set match!
Chicago had one truly great song (Hard habit to break) which was not written by Cetera, and you can tell, because all the songs he wrote were utter drivel.
That was hardly Chicago's one great song. Two guys singing a breakup song. Ugh!
Robert G. Yeah, I'd have to concur with you on that. Chicago did write many great songs, including Pankows contributions but Hard Habit To Break is not one I'd brag about as being a favorite of mine. No way, no how.
Drivel to you but these songs, the songs he wrote were the soundtrack to my youth. It’s ok to have a mix of tempos on albums you know. The 80’s brought the power ballads, so what, he didn’t write them alone and it filled their pockets plenty. Let’s not forget their dry spell from 79-81, David Foster brought them out of the doldrums and yes, with a few power ballads. Truly only Hard to Say I’m Sorry and You’re The Inspiration were ballads, the others were up tempo. Pankow wrote a power ballad Just you ‘n me, and then there was their first number 1 hit all over the globe IYLMN which was a beautiful song. Not every piece of music needs to blow the wallpaper off the walls. He’s a lyricist and writes and sings from the heart. Acknowledge it or not but his music was anything but drivel.
We can agree to disagree
I have always hated Chicago's music, even as a kid. It's just nauseating mush that makes me want to be violently sick. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and that is mine.
Eric George Well, golly gee. Thank you for letting us know that. Are there any other bands in the fifty years Chicagos been making music that you also feel similarly about? I mean why make us wander through TH-cam to find your other little droppings when you can just let us know here. You know we all feel similarly about the music of a great many other successful bands but don't feel the need to go to their sites and assassinate their character or quality of their music but hey, it's a free world.
Why did you watch the video?