Cornerstone

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The 100 Best Rock Classic Songs 1965-1979 (100 items)
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Styx The River From Darkness : Best Hits (20 items)
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The 10 Best Soft Rock Song's 1970-1979 (10 items)
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Favorite Songs of All Time: 1978-1979 (148 items)
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Number One Hit Albums: Canada - 1980 (10 items)
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Boat on the River - Styx

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Description: If Styx didn't do enough to endear itself to a generation of prom-goers with its 1975 slow-dance classic "Lady," they closed the deal a few years later with Cornerstone's premiere hit, "Babe." Perhaps the prototypical I-love-you-but-I-just-gotta-go power ballad, the song was Styx's first No. 1 hit, and it propelled the album to platinum-plus status. Led by that track as well as "Why Me," another Top 40 hit, Cornerstone is Styx at their most accessible and melodic. The album experiments with some new sounds as well, with horns added to the mix on Dennis DeYoung's "Borrowed Time" and "W ... (more)

Manufacturer: A&M
Release date: 25 October 1979
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075021323926 UPC: 075021323926

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