REO Speedwagon- Hi Infidelity 45th- Kevin Cronin, Neal Doughty 11-10

When Hi Infidelity by REO Speedwagon was released in early November 1980, it was the band’s ninth studio album in ten years of trying. While rock radio listeners in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco were just introduced to REO Speedwagon two years earlier with “Roll with the Changes” and “Time for Me to Fly”, millions of other Americans between the Rockies and the Ohio River could recall seeing REO play their high school proms, college homecomings, and countless state fairs for ten long years. With the release of Hi Infidelity forty-five years ago, the tumblers all clicked and the jackpot was stunning.

REO Speedwagon true believers singer/songwriter Kevin Cronin and keyboardist Neal Doughty tell the never-say-die story of Hi Infidelity (#1 Billboard for fifteen weeks!!!) and the #1 single “Keep On Loving You”, “Take It on the Run” (#5), “Don’t Let Him Go”, “Tough Guys”, and “Follow My Heart”, selling over 10,000,000 copies. Don’t miss this forty-fifth anniversary of REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity here In the Studio the week of November 10. –Redbeard