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Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967. The group began calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority (after the city's mass transit agency [1]) in 1968, then shortened the name in 1969. Self-described as a " rock and roll band with horns ," their songs often also combine elements of classical music, jazz, R&B, and pop ...
- Chicago Transit Authority
History. Chicago was formed in early 1967, first as the Big...
- Chicago V
Chicago V is the fourth studio album by the American rock...
- Chicago Discography
67. Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in...
- Terry Kath
Terry Alan Kath (January 31, 1946 – January 23, 1978) was an...
- Chicago Xxxii: Stone of Sisyphus
Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus is the twenty-first studio...
- Danny Seraphine
The band's second album Sacred Ground was released on March...
- Lee Loughnane
Lee David Loughnane (pronounced LOCK-nain; born October 21,...
- Walter Parazaider
Walter Parazaider (born March 14, 1945) is an American...
- Stay The Night
Reception. Cash Box said that the song is very different...
- Chicago (Album)
Chicago (retroactively known as Chicago II) is the second...
- Chicago Transit Authority
- The History of One of The Most Popular Rock Bands of All Time
- Chapter I – A Dream
- Chapter II – The Birth of A Band
- Chapter III – The Big Thing
- Chapter IV – Chicago Transit Authority
- Chapter V – Making A Statement
- Chapter Vi – Revolution
- Chapter VII – Success
- Chapter VIII – Caribou Ranch
- Chapter IX – Tragedy
Perhaps more than any other city in the United States, Chicago, located at the center of the nation, has reflected the cultural diversity that has served as both a nurturer of significant musical talent and a magnet that drew the best from other areas. Jazzman Lionel Hampton arrived in Chicago when he was 11 years old in 1919, blues man Muddy Water...
Most pop stars who emerged in the 1960’s will tell you that they got their inspiration by seeing Elvis Presley perform on TV in the ’50’s. But Walter Parazaider, born in Chicago on March 14, 1945, had a slightly different experience. “I started playing when I was nine years old because I saw Benny Goodman on The Ed Sullivan Show,” he says. “I was a...
Parazaider’s current band at the time was the Missing Links, which featured a very talented guy named Terry Kath on bass. Kath, born in Chicago on January 31, 1946, had been a friend of Parazaider’s and Guercio’s since they were teenagers. On drums was Danny Seraphine, born in Chicago on August 28, l948 , who had been raised in Chicago’s Little Ita...
The Big Thing played its first engagement at the GiGi A-Go-Go in Lyons, Illinois, in March 1967. In June, July, and August, the band appeared in Peoria, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Rockford, and Indianapolis. But the most important early gig was a week-long stand at Shula’s Club in Niles, Michigan, from August 29 to September 3. In Niles, they arran...
The band, now renamed Chicago Transit Authority by Guercio in honor of the bus line he used to ride to school, was in a creative fervor. Kath, Pankow, and especially Lamm were writing large amounts of original material, with Lamm completing two of the group’s most memorable songs, “Questions 67 and 68” and “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?...
In January 1969, when the group flew to New York to begin work on its first album, it faced two problems it knew nothing about. The first was that, because the Guercio-produced Blood, Sweat and Tears LP at first appeared to be a flop (though it later became a spectacular hit), the status of his new project, CTA, suffered: The label curtailed the am...
By December 1969, Chicago Transit Authority, still without benefit of a hit single, was a gold-selling album, and Chicago was a famous band. It changed their lives. “Your life dream is to have a hit record,” says Parazaider. “It was amazing because we were close friends, we had gone through all of this upheaval of leaving Chicago, moving to L.A. at...
When it was released in January 1970, the second album, instead of featuring a picture of the band on the cover and a title drawn from one of the songs, had the band’s distinctive logo on the cover and was called Chicago II. From the start, Chicago took a conceptual approach to the way it was presented to the public. The album covers were overseen ...
Chicago’s next studio album marked a change from its first three studio works in a number of respects. For one thing, Chicago V, released in July 1972, was only a single album. For another, the lengthy instrumental excursions of past records had been cut down, leaving nine relatively tightly arranged songs. James Pankow offers an explanation for th...
Chicago began work on its next album August 1, 1974, at Caribou Ranch, and the results started to emerge in February 1975, with the release of the single “Harry Truman,” Lamm’s tribute to a president America could trust and a reference to the recently concluded Watergate scandal. Pankow wrote the sentimental “Old Days.” “It’s a memorabilia song, it...
1967–2009. Chicago was formed under the name The Big Thing on February 15, 1967, with the original lineup comprising guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath, keyboardist and vocalist Robert Lamm, drummer Danny Seraphine, saxophonist Walter Parazaider, trumpeter Lee Loughnane and trombonist James Pankow. [1] In December, bassist Peter Cetera was ...
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Dec 15, 2023 · Although he left Chicago, the band he co-founded in 1967, almost 40 years ago, to many people Cetera remains the voice of the band, his falsetto technique gracing mega-hits such as If You Leave Me Now and Hard To Say I’m Sorry. Bizarrely, Cetera’s style is a direct a result of singing for a period of time with a wired-shut jaw after getting ...
- Dave Ling
The band’s early albums, including its debut, Chicago Transit Authority (1969)—made after the group relocated to Los Angeles—were resonant with soul-inflected jazz influences. By the early 1970s principal songwriters Cetera, Lamm, and Pankow and producer-manager James Guercio began to steer Chicago in a more pop-oriented direction.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 21, 2019 · Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago: Directed by Peter Curtis Pardini. With Lee Loughnane, Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow. The history of legendary rock band Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to the present.
