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STYX

February 5, 2012 Super Bowl Sunday. Performing Super Bowl is an extraordinary accomplishment for any band or artist. For the legendary band Styx, playing Super Bowl two times, 2001 and again in 2003, is beyond extraordinary! Last month Styx traversed the television airwaves with numerous network TV appearances in anticipation of their recently released THE GRAND ILLUSION / PIECES OF EIGHT LIVE DVD.  OFC chatted with Lawrence Gowan, lead singer and keyboardist of the band, about the excitement of the new release and highlights of being part of a band that released their first album forty years earlier.

"Styx is originally a Chicago band and the Chicago blues that came out of that city was an integral part, particularly of early...inspirations" tells Gowan. Lawrence describes what it was like to re-record Styx signature hit "Blue Collar Man" in the Chess Records Studios with some of legendary blues greats and shares the Crossroads Guitar Festival story behind the making of Beatles cover "I Am The Walrus" that went on to soar the charts. Styx front man discusses with candor his views about the changing music world, what every new artist trying to break in should know and so much more.

Check out the sound bite sneak preview from the interview of Lawrence on video and read the full interview right here!

STYX - Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young, Lawrence Gowan, Todd Sucherman and Ricky Phillips (along with the occasional surprise appearance by original bassist Chuck Panozzo), have performed more live since ’99 than all of the previous years of its career combined.  Two Super-Bowl appearances, Pollstar Box Office chart-topping tours with Def Leppard, Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company (to name only a few), two more studio albums and no end in sight, STYX continues to conquer the planet, one venue at a time!

	Styx: The Grand Illusion / Pieces of Eight- Live [DVD / 2CD]