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The Grand Illusion

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Released
  
July 7, 1977

Label
  
A&M

Length
  
38:59

Producer
  
Styx

Recorded
  
1977 at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago

Genre
  
Progressive rock, art rock, hard rock

The Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album by Styx, released on July 7, 1977. It launched the band to stardom, spawning the hit singles "Come Sail Away" and "Fooling Yourself", and selling over three million copies in the US.

Contents

The album was recorded at Paragon Recording Studios in Chicago.

The album cover art, created by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, is an homage to a painting by René Magritte entitled "Le Blanc-Seing".

Side One

  1. "The Grand Illusion" (Dennis DeYoung) – 4:36
  2. Lead vocals: DeYoung
  3. First guitar solo and guitar fills: Tommy Shaw
  4. Second guitar solo: James Young
  5. "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" (Shaw) – 5:29
  6. Lead vocals: Shaw
  7. "Superstars" (Young, DeYoung, Shaw) – 3:59
  8. Lead vocals and lead guitar: Shaw
  9. Soliloquy: DeYoung
  10. "Come Sail Away" (DeYoung) – 6:07
  11. Lead vocals and synthesizer solo: DeYoung
  12. ARP Odyssey: Young
  13. Lead Guitar: Shaw

Side Two

  1. "Miss America" (Young) – 5:02
  2. Lead vocals and guitar solo: Young
  3. "Man in the Wilderness" (Shaw) – 5:51
  4. Lead vocals and guitar solo: Shaw
  5. "Castle Walls" (DeYoung) – 5:59
  6. Lead vocals: DeYoung
  7. Lead guitar: Young
  8. "The Grand Finale" (DeYoung, Young, Shaw) – 1:57
  9. Lead vocals: DeYoung
  10. Lead guitar fills: Shaw
  11. Melodic guitar lead: Young

Styx

  • Dennis DeYoung – keyboards, vocals
  • Tommy Shaw – guitar, vocals
  • James Young – guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Chuck Panozzo – bass
  • John Panozzo – drums

    • Production

  • Barry Mraz - production assistance, engineer
  • Rob Kingsland - engineer
  • Mastered by Mike Reese at the Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California
  • Derek Sutton - management, direction
  • Jim Vose - tour manager
  • Jeff Ravitz - lighting designer
  • John "Tarkus" Schaefer - stage manager
  • Bob "Yaz" Jastrzembski - equipment, motorcycle stunts
  • Judson Terry Phelps - monitors
  • Roland Young - art direction
  • Jim McCrary - photography
  • Chuck Beeson - album design
  • Kelly and Mouse - album cover painting

    • References

    The Grand Illusion Wikipedia
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