Styx- Equinox 50th- James Young, Tommy Shaw, Dennis DeYoung

So many people outside of the Upper Midwest first discovered Styx with their blockbuster 1977 album The Grand Illusion that, at least for them, the story begins there, but it in fact there was high drama and great music beforehand with the third-time’s-the-charm single “Lady”, then 1975’s strong Equinox  album containing “Light Up”, “Lorelei”, and the timeless “Suite: Madame Blue”. Styx band leaders even today James “JY” Young and Tommy Shaw look back on  the pivotal Equinox  on its fiftieth anniversary, along with the original  co-founding former member who wrote and sang all of those songs, Dennis DeYoung, here In the Studio  for my classic rock interviews.