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REO Speedwagon

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R.E.O. Speedwagon: The Band That Flies Together

Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, November 1974

WHAT REALLY GOES on after hours in Rock 'n' Roll Land? When a band is not touring or performing what do they do to take ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton, REO Speedwagon: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1975

Lynyrd Skynyrd Predictable ...

REO Speedwagon/Rainbow: Los Angeles, California

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 10 June 1978

REO Rattled By Rampant Rainbow ...

REO Speedwagon Makes Its Own Way

Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1978

Riding the Seger circuit ...

REO Speedwagon: After The Ninth Album You Don't Throw The TV Set Out Of The Window

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 10 November 1979

THE INEVITABLE PROCESS OF MATURITY AS EXPERIENCED BY REO SPEEDWAGON. SANDY ROBERTSON WRITES ...

REO Speedwagon: The Prairie Dog Has His Day

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 2 May 1981

Fifteen years of slogging around the mid-west of America in clapped-out Chevrolets and crashing planes has finally put REO Speedwagon on the No. 1 album ...

Hard Pop, Suburban Rock

Report by J.D. Considine, Musician, October 1981

Band like REO, Styx and Journey have taken the details of the rock sound and made the medium the whole message, capitalizing on the rock ...

REO Speedwagon: Good Trouble (Epic)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1982

FROM OUT OF THE STEREOS OF BABES ...

REO Speedwagon: Wheels Are Turnin' (Epic)

Review by Jon Young, Creem, April 1985

THESE ARE THE MEN OF BONANZA ...

REO Speedwagon

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001

Neal Doughty, b. 29 July 1946, Evanston, Illinois, USA; Alan Gratzer, b. 9 November 1948, Syracuse, New York (replaced by Bryan Hitt, b. 5 January ...

More Than a Feeling: The 20 Greatest AOR Tracks of All Time!

Guide by Matthew Hamilton, Rock's Backpages, July 2009

Author's Note: I have found that most discussions of AOR get easily sidetracked unless it's made clear which definition of the AOR acronym we're using. ...

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