At the dawn of the 80s, Legendary American Rock band REO Speedwagon had their backs against the wall. They needed a hit record or they were finished. Their label told them as much. With the pressure on singer Kevin Cronin… He wrote a piano-based song and brought it to the band. The band hated especially, guitarist Gary Richrath who shredded his guitar so loud during the recording he was trying to ruin the song or drown out the singer. Instead, it made the song a power ballad to be reckoned with. Keep On Loving You became the hit of 1981 and helped put REO in the record books as the song and record Hi Infidelity went to #1 and became one of the biggest of the 80s spending 15 weeks at #1 and putting these guys into stadiums! Up next an interview with singer Kevin Cronin on this incredible story.
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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists reveal rare stories about their biggest songs, along with fascinating insight about their careers.
On this installment of Revelations, we put a true smash hit under the microscope. As the 80s began, American band REO Speedwagon, or just the Speedwagon as Johnny from Cobra Kai refers to them…
Anyway, Kevin Cronin and his band REO Speedwagon were in a corner. They had produced several albums with songs that achieved some success on radio but nothing up to that point had broken out. They were told that they needed to deliver on their next album or they were in danger of losing their record deal…Enter Hi Infidelity. A classic album that would not only save their bacon, it would become one of the biggest rock albums ever. To put it in perspective, there have been just under 5 million albums released since the invention of recorded sound.
Only 27 albums have spent at least 15 weeks at the #1 spot on the album charts. Hi-Infidelity by REO Speedwagon is one of those albums. Going even further only 7 rock acts can lay claim to that title. Hi Infidelity was pushed to the top of the charts by four big singles on the album: Take it On The Run, Don’t Let Him Go, In Your lEtter and of course, Keep On Loving You.
Keep on Lovin’ You was the first single off of the album and truly set the stage for what would follow, spending 1 week at number on in early 1981. An explosive power ballad that starts with an intimate piano fill and builds to the electric singalong Chorus that pretty much anyone who had ever listened to music knows by heart. How the song came to Kevin is one of my favorite rock and roll stories. Up next the man himself tells us the story… I had a chance to sit down with Kevin at home and hear it straight from him as he showed me exactly what happened on his piano. This is a can’t miss… Kevin also tells us the story behind another big hit from the album next.
Leave us comment about this 80s power ballad and Kevin Cronin and REO Speedwagon. and feelings about the amazing blockbuster record Hi-Infidelity?
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