REO Speedwagon have called it a day after 57 years. Honestly, they could have waited till after Christmas. How am I going to get through the holidays now?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14222059/Legendary-rock-band-57-years.html
A catastrophe!
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Hopefully they won’t bother trying to fight this feeling.
All good things ( and bad ones) have to come to an end.
They made a great album of AOR with Hi Infidelity and this`:
Take it on the Run is one that I really enjoy. Also Roll With the Changes. Plus Don’t Let Him Go. The guitarist was really excellent I think, very melodic solos.
They were unfairly maligned.
I liked them too. Only knew the hits though which were great examples of AOR.
Fascinating rock trivia you possibly didn’t know and certainly don’t care about anyway, part 87 in an occasional series:
The REO in REO Speedwagon stands for Ransom Eli Olds, an early pioneer of the US car industry after whom the Oldsmobile company was named. The Speed Wagon was a vehicle he designed in 1915.
Next time, we discover how LCD Soundsystem are named after a 1950s radiogram, and that Mumford and Sons took their name from a removals company in Stevenage. Tune in then.
And I thought they’d just dropped the first O from Oreo, I can’t think of any more biscuit related bands though.
Lionel Richtea?
Bourbon Scott?
The Nice, surely.
The Nice wins the festive biscuit selection box (less the chocolate coated ones which mysteriously always disappear within 5 minutes of the box being opened).
Like this. Thanks @slug