Styx - Pieces Of Eight Album

Tracklist

1	Queen Of Spades Lead Guitar – James Young Lead Vocals – Dennis DeYoungWritten-By – Dennis DeYoung, James Young	5:38
2	Pieces Of Eight Lead Guitar – Tommy ShawWritten-By, Lead Vocals – Dennis DeYoung	4:45
3	Renegade Lead Guitar – James Young Written-By, Lead Vocals – Tommy Shaw	4:13
4	Lords Of The Ring Lead Guitar [End Solo] – Tommy ShawLead Vocals, Lead Guitar [Middle Solo] – James Young Written-By – Dennis DeYoung	4:31
5	Aku-Aku Music By, Lead Guitar – Tommy Shaw	3:00
6	I'm O.K. Lead Guitar – Tommy ShawLead Vocals, Synthesizer [Solo], Organ [Pipe Organ] – Dennis DeYoungWritten-By – Dennis DeYoung, James Young	5:42
7	The Message Music By, Synthesizer – Dennis DeYoung	1:08
8	Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Written-By, Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar – Tommy Shaw	4:03
9	Sing For The Day Written-By, Lead Vocals, Mandolin, Autoharp, Guitar – Tommy Shaw	4:56
10	Great White Hope Written-By, Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar – James Young	4:23

Credits

• Art Direction, Design – Hipgnosis
• Bass Guitar – Chuck Panozzo
• Drums – John Panozzo
• Engineer – Rob Kingsland
• Engineer [Assistant] – Gary Geppert, Harry Andronis
• Guitar – James Young (tracks: A1 to A2, A4 to B5), Tommy Shaw
• Management, Directed By – Derek Sutton, Stardust Enterprises
• Mastered By – TJ
• Producer – Styx
• Producer [Assistant], Engineer – Barry Mraz
• Synthesizer [Programming] – Dennis DeYoung, Ed Walsh

Notes

Original copies came in gatefold cover with Inner lyric sleeve, rear of cover has no barcode.

Barcodes

• Barcode (Side A Label): SP-5185
• Barcode (Side B Label): SP-5186
• Barcode (Side A Etched): SP 5185 P3 TJ
• Barcode (Side A Stamped): STERLING B 2 P
• Barcode (Side B Etched): SP 5186 P3 TJ
• Barcode (Side B Stamped): STERLING I 6 P
• Rights Society: ASCAP

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – A&M Records, Inc.
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
• Published By – Almo Music Corp.
• Published By – Stygian Songs
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Album

Pieces of Eight is the eighth studio album by Styx, released on September 1, 1978. Like the band's previous album, The Grand Illusion 1977, it managed to achieve triple platinum certification, thanks to the hit singles Blue Collar Man Long Nights and Renegade. The band members produced and recorded the album like their previous three efforts at Paragon Studios in Chicago with recording engineer Barry Mraz and mixing engineer Rob Kingsland. I'm O. was recorded at Paragon and St. Listen free to Styx Pieces Of Eight Great White Hope, I'm O. and more. 10 tracks 42:23. Like the band's previous album, The Grand Illusion, it managed to achieve triple-platinum certification, thanks to the hit singles Sing for the Day, Blue Collar Man Long Nights and Renegade. The band members produced and recorded the album like their previous three efforts at Paragon Studios in Chicago with recording engineer Barry Mraz and mixing engineer Rob Kingslan. Styx - Pieces of Eight 1978. performs Pieces of Eight off the album of the same name at Pueblo Memorial Hall in Pueblo, Colo. on April 27, . Pieces of Eight. Released September 1, 1978. Pieces of Eight Tracklist. Great White Hope of Eight. Рок 1978. Great White Hope. More by Styx. Live at the Orleans Arena, Las Vegas. Somewhere In Time Live 1976. Caught In the Act Live. The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings. The Serpent Is Rising. Edge of the Century. Big Bang Theory. Featured On. Styx's feisty, straightforward brand of album rock is represented best by Blue Collar Man from 1978's Pieces of Eight, an invigorating keyboard and guitar rush - hard and heavy, yet curved by Tommy Shaw's emphasized vocals. Reaching number 21, with the frolicking romp of Renegade edging in at number 16 only six months later, Pieces of Eight maintained their strength as a front-running FM radio group. Even though these two tracks were both mainstream singles, the rest of the album includes tracks that rekindle some of Styx's early progressive rock so. Pieces of Eight was a concept I had after we finally made it we were so successful in a 12-month period financially that it was about what happens with your friends, and what is this thing about money, what is this pursuit of money DeYoung recalled in an episode of In the Studio. Pieces of Eight was a hit, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard album chart. For the first time, Shaw had all of the hit singles from the album Blue Collar Man reached No. 21, and Renegade went all the way to No. Both songs would go on to be staples of Styx's live set for the rest of their career. Predictably, critics were less enthusiastic. Styx : Pieces of Eight,альбом, рецезия, трек-лист, mp3, тексты песен. Type Album. Дата релиза 01 Сентябрь 1978. Лейблы A And M Records. Музыкальный стильProgressive Rock. Владельцы этого альбома14. Pieces Of Eight is ranked 5,686th in the overall chart, 961st in the 1970s, and 109th in the year 1978