Return to Paradise (album)

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Return to Paradise
Return to Paradise cover
Live album by Styx
Released May 5, 1997
Recorded Autumnal Equinox, 1996, Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL
Genre Rock
Length 1h 50:10
Label CMC International
Producer(s) Dennis DeYoung
Professional reviews
Styx chronology
Edge of the Century
(1990)
Return to Paradise
(1997)
Brave New World
(1999)


Return to Paradise is a live album by Styx, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). It features songs from their successful reunion tour with Tommy Shaw, but without John Panozzo, who died in July 1996. It includes three new studio tracks, including Dear John, whom Tommy Shaw wrote as a tribute to Panozzo.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "On My Way" [*] (Shaw) – 5:02
  2. "Paradise" [*] (DeYoung) – 4:29
  3. "Rockin' the Paradise" (DeYoung, Shaw, Young) – 5:23
  4. "Blue Collar Man" (Shaw) – 4:34
  5. "Lady" (DeYoung) – 3:28
  6. "Too Much Time on My Hands" (Shaw) – 5:43
  7. "Snowblind" (DeYoung, Young) – 5:26
  8. "Suite Madame Blue" (DeYoung) – 8:31
  9. "Crystal Ball" (Shaw) – 5:56
  10. "Grand Illusion" (DeYoung) – 6:50
  11. "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" (Shaw) – 5:54
  12. "Show Me the Way" (DeYoung) – 5:11
  13. "Boat on the River" (Shaw) – 3:16
  14. "Lorelei" (DeYoung, Young) – 4:03
  15. "Babe" (DeYoung) – 4:50
  16. "Miss America" (Young) – 6:15
  17. "Come Sail Away" (DeYoung) – 8:33
  18. "Renegade" (Shaw) – 6:01
  19. "The Best of Times" (DeYoung) – 7:42
  20. "Dear John" [*] (Shaw) – 3:03

* newly recorded studio track

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Dennis DeYoung
  • Engineer: Timothy R. Powell
  • Mixing: Dennis DeYoung, Gary Loizzo
  • Art direction: Ioannis, Linda Loiewski
  • Design: Ioannis
  • Illustrations: Ioannis
  • Digital painting: Ioannis
  • Photography: Mark Weiss

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1997 The Billboard 200 139
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