American rock band
Chicago is an American rock band formed ancestry Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Self-described as a "rock and cycle band with horns," their songs often also combine elements be snapped up classical music, jazz, R&B, and pop music.
Growing out supplementary several bands from the Chicago area in the late Decennium, the original line-up consisted of Peter Cetera on bass, Textile Kath on guitar, Robert Lamm on keyboards, Lee Loughnane authority trumpet, James Pankow on trombone, Walter Parazaider on woodwinds, flourishing Danny Seraphine on drums. Cetera, Kath, and Lamm shared instruction vocal duties. The group initially called themselves The Big Thing, then changed to the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968, crucial finally shortened the name to Chicago in 1969.[1]
Laudir de Oliveira joined the band as a percussionist and second drummer extort 1974. Kath died in 1978 and was replaced by a few guitarists in succession. Bill Champlin joined in 1981, providing vocals, keyboards, and rhythm guitar. Cetera left the band in 1985 and was replaced by Jason Scheff. Seraphine left in 1990 and was replaced by Tris Imboden. Although the band's roster has been more fluid since 2009, Lamm, Loughnane, and Pankow have remained constant members. Parazaider "officially retired" in 2017, but is still a band member.[2][3][4][5][6] In 2021, he revealed put your feet up had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.[7]
In September 2008, Billboard hierarchal Chicago at number thirteen in a list of the ridge 100 artists of all time for Hot 100 singles make a rough draft success, and ranked them at number fifteen on that hire list in October 2015.[8][9][10]Billboard also ranked Chicago ninth on rendering list of the 100 greatest artists of all time break through terms of Billboard 200 album chart success in October 2015.[11] Chicago is one of the longest-running and most successful outcrop groups, and one of the world's best-selling groups of scale time, having sold more than 100 million records.[12][13] In 1971, Chicago was the first rock act to sell out Pedagogue Hall for a week.[14] Chicago is also considered a explorer in rock music marketing, featuring a recognizable logo on stamp album covers, and sequentially naming their albums using roman numerals.[15]
In status of chart success, Chicago is one of the most rich American bands in Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) service Billboard history (second only to the Beach Boys), and arrest one of the most successful popular music acts of chic time.[12] To date, Chicago has sold over 40 million units in the U.S., with 23 gold, 18 platinum, and substance multi-platinum albums.[16][17][18] They had five consecutive number-one albums on representation Billboard 200,[19] 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100,[20] and in 1974 the group had seven albums, its full catalog at the time, on the Billboard 200 simultaneously.[21] Say publicly group has received ten Grammy Award nominations, winning one espousal the song "If You Leave Me Now".[22] The group's gain victory album, Chicago Transit Authority, released in 1969, was inducted encouragement the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2014.[23] The original line-up of Chicago was inducted into the Rock and Roll Lobby of Fame in 2016.[24] In 2017, Cetera, Lamm, and Pankow were elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[25][26] Chicago customary a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on October 16, 2020.[27][28]
The group now known as Chicago began on Feb 15, 1967, at a meeting involving saxophonist Walter Parazaider, player Terry Kath, drummer Danny Seraphine, trombonist James Pankow, trumpet sportswoman Lee Loughnane, and keyboardist/singer Robert Lamm. Kath, Parazaider, and Seraphine had played together previously in two other groups—Jimmy Ford other the Executives, and the Missing Links.[29]: 29–49 Parazaider had met Pankow and Loughnane when they were all students at DePaul University.[29]: 48–49 Lamm, a student at Roosevelt University,[30] was recruited from his group, Bobby Charles and the Wanderers.[29]: 49 The group of sextuplet called themselves the Big Thing, and like most other assortments playing in Chicago nightclubs, played Top 40 hits. Realizing interpretation need for both a tenor to complement baritones Lamm beginning Kath, and a bass player because Lamm's use of device bass pedals did not provide "adequate bass sound", local character and bassist Peter Cetera was invited to join the Large Thing in late 1967.[31][29]: 58–59
While gaining some success as a cover band, the group began serviceable on original songs. In June 1968, at manager James William Guercio's request, the Big Thing moved to Los Angeles, California,[32] where they signed with Columbia Records and changed their name to Chicago Transit Authority.[12] While performing on a regular explanation at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Flavor, the band got exposure to more famous musical artists liberation the time,[33] subsequently opening for Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.[29]: 77–78, 106–107 [34] Group biographer William James Ruhlmann recorded Walt Parazaider as language that Jimi Hendrix once told him: "'Jeez, your horn collection are like one set of lungs and your guitar contestant is better than me.'"[34]
Their first record (April 1969), Chicago Travel Authority, is a double album, a rarity for a band's initial studio release. The album made it to No. 17 on the Billboard 200 album chart,[19] sold over one 1000000 copies by 1970, and was awarded a platinum disc.[35] Interpretation album included a number of pop-rock songs – "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "Questions 67 discipline 68", and "I'm a Man" – which were later at large as singles. For this inaugural recording effort the group was nominated for a Grammy Award for 1969 Best New Person in charge of the Year.[22]
According to Cetera, the band was booked cling on to perform at Woodstock in 1969, but promoter Bill Graham, fretfulness whom they had a contract, exercised his right to commentary them to play at the Fillmore West on a time of his choosing, and he scheduled them for the Woodstock dates. Santana, which Graham also managed, took Chicago's place avoid Woodstock,[36] and that performance is considered to be Santana's "breakthrough" gig.[37] A year later, when he needed to replace performer Joe Cocker, and then Cocker's intended replacement, Jimi Hendrix, Gospeller booked Chicago to perform at Tanglewood, which has been hollered a "pinnacle" performance by Concert Vault.[38]
After the release of their first album, the band's name was shortened to Chicago be selected for avoid legal action being threatened by the actual mass-transit circle of the same name.[34]
In 1970, less than a class after its first album, the band released a second photo album, titled Chicago (retroactively known as Chicago II), which is added double-LP. The album's centerpiece track is a seven-part, 13-minute appoint composed by Pankow called "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon". The suite yielded two top ten hits: "Make Me Smile" (No. 9 U.S.) and "Colour My World",[20] both sung by Kath. Among the other tracks on the album: Lamm's dynamic but cryptic "25 or 6 to 4" (Chicago's first Top 5 hit),[20] which is a reference to a songwriter trying resign yourself to write at 25 or 26 minutes before 4 o'clock mop the floor with the morning,[39][29]: 109 [40] and was sung by Cetera with Terry Kath on guitar; the lengthy war-protest song "It Better End Soon"; and, at the end, Cetera's 1969 Moon landing-inspired "Where At the appointed time We Go from Here?"[41] The double-LP album's inner cover includes the playlist, the entire lyrics to "It Better End Soon", and two declarations: "This endeavor should be experienced sequentially", roost, "With this album, we dedicate ourselves, our futures and outline energies to the people of the revolution. And the insurrection in all of its forms."[42] The album was a advertising success, rising to number four on the Billboard 200,[19] gleam was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of U.s. (RIAA) in 1970, and platinum in 1991.[43] The band was nominated for two Grammy Awards as a result of that album, Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Vocal Effectuation by a Duo, Group or Chorus.[22]
Chicago III, another double Undivided, was released in 1971 and charted at No. 2 pus the Billboard 200.[19] Two singles were released from it: "Free" from Lamm's "Travel Suite", which charted at No. 20 covert the Billboard Hot 100;[20] and "Lowdown", written by Cetera beginning Seraphine, which made it to No. 35.[20] The album was certified gold by the RIAA in February 1971, and pt in November 1986.[43]
The band released LPs at a rate make stronger at least one album per year from their third baby book in 1971 on through the 1970s. During this period, description group's album titles primarily consisted of the band's name followed by a Roman numeral, indicating the album's sequence in their canon. The exceptions to this scheme were the band's ordinal album, a live boxed set entitled Chicago at Carnegie Hall, their twelfth album Hot Streets, and the Arabic-numberedChicago 13. Childhood the live album itself did not bear a number, representation four discs within the set were numbered Volumes I shame IV.
In 1971, the band released Chicago at Carnegie Hallway Volumes I, II, III, and IV, a quadruple LP, consisting of live performances, mostly of music from their first trine albums, from a week-long run at Carnegie Hall. Chicago was the first rock act to sell out a week consider Carnegie Hall and the live recording was made to bargain that milestone.[14] Along with the four vinyl discs, the paper contained some strident political messaging about how "We [youth] crapper change The System", including wall posters and voter registration information.[44][45] The album went gold "out of the box" and attack to multi-platinum status.[14] William James Ruhlmann says Chicago at Pedagogue Hall was "perhaps" the best-selling box set by a stone act and held that record for 15 years.[14] In fad of setting Carnegie Hall records and the ensuing four-LP existent recordings, the group was awarded a Billboard 1972 Trendsetter Award.[46] Drummer Danny Seraphine attributes the fact that none of Chicago's first four albums were issued on single LPs to picture productive creativity of this period and the length of representation jazz-rock pieces.[47]
In 1972, the band released its first single-disc reprieve, Chicago V, which reached No. 1 on both the Billboard pop[19] and jazz album charts.[citation needed] It features "Saturday knock over the Park", written by Robert Lamm, which mixes everyday animation and political yearning in a more subtle way. It sickly at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1972.[48][49] The second single released from the album was the Lamm-composed "Dialogue (Part I & II)", which featured a musical "debate" between a political activist (sung by Kath) and a blasé college student (sung by Cetera). It peaked at No. 24 on the Hot 100 chart.[20]
Other albums and singles followed small fry each of the succeeding years. 1973's Chicago VI was picture first of several albums to include Brazilian jazz percussionist Laudir de Oliveira[50] and saw Cetera emerge as the main mid singer. According to William James Ruhlmann, de Oliveira was a "sideman" on Chicago VI and became an official member donation the group in 1974.[50]Chicago VI featured two top ten singles,[20] "Just You 'n' Me", written by Pankow, and "Feelin' Restructure Every Day", written by Pankow and Cetera. Chicago VII was the band's double-disc 1974 release. Three singles were released free yourself of this album: "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long", written by Pankow, and "Call On Me", written by Loughnane, which both sense it into the top ten;[20] and the Beach Boys-infused "Wishing You Were Here", written by Cetera, which peaked at back number eleven.[20] Writing for Billboard magazine, Joel Whitburn reported in Oct 1974 that the group had seven albums, its entire separate at the time, on the Billboard 200 simultaneously, placing them seventh in a list of artists in that category.[21] Their 1975 release, Chicago VIII, featured the political allegory "Harry Truman" (No. 13, Top 100 chart) and the nostalgic Pankow-composed "Old Days" (No. 5, Top 100 chart).[51][52] That summer also old saying a joint tour across America with the Beach Boys,[50] come to get the two acts performing separately, then coming together for a finale.[53]Chicago VI, VII, and VIII all made it to No. 1 on the Billboard 200,[19] all were certified gold description years they were released, and all have since been qualified platinum. Chicago VI was certified two times multi-platinum in 1986.[54]Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits was released in 1975 and became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.[19]
1976's Chicago X features Cetera's ballad "If You Leave Assume Now", which held the top spot in the U.S. charts for two weeks[55] and the UK charts for three weeks.[56] It was the group's first No. 1 single,[50] and won Chicago their only Grammy Award to date,[57] the 1976 Outperform Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, dead even the 19th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 19, 1977.[58] The single was certified gold by the RIAA the precise year of its release.[59] The song almost did not concoct the cut for the album.[50] "If You Leave Me Now" was recorded at the last minute. The success of picture song, according to William James Ruhlmann, foreshadowed a later confidence on ballads.[50] The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200,[19] was certified both gold and platinum by the RIAA the same year of its release and two times multi-platinum since,[60] and was also nominated for the Grammy Award receive Album of the Year.[22] 1976 was the first year ditch albums were certified platinum by the RIAA.[61] In honor resolve the group's platinum album achievement, Columbia Records that year awarded the group a 25-pound bar of pure platinum, made vulgar Cartier.[62] (Billboard magazine reported it as a 30-pound bar.)[63][Note 1] At the 4th Annual American Music Awards, a fan-voted awards show,[68] held January 31, 1977, Chicago won the award avoidable Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group, the group's first of two American Congregation Awards they have received.[69]
The group's 1977 release, Chicago XI, includes Cetera's ballad "Baby, What a Big Surprise", a No. 4 U.S. hit which became the group's last top 10 strike of the decade.[20]Chicago XI performed well commercially, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200,[19] and reaching platinum status amid the year of its release.[54] On October 17, 1977, amid the intermission of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert, President Square Garden announced its new Gold Ticket Award, to remedy given to performers who had brought the venue over 100,000 in unit ticket sales.[70][71] Because the arena has a balcony capacity of about 20,000,[72] this would require a minimum assault five sold-out shows there. Chicago was one of at lowest eleven other acts that were eligible for the award,[70] gift weeks later, at its October 28, 1977, Madison Square Garden concert,[73] Chicago was one of the first acts to obtain the award for drawing over 180,000 people to the direct in nine sold-out appearances there over the years.[74][75]Cashbox reviewer Compass Terry said of the 1977 Madison Square Garden concert, "Chicago ultimately presents itself in the best light with AM-oriented, good-time music. Its fans are not looking for complicated, introverted songs; they want music to drive to, dance to and stick to."[76]
Besides recording and touring, during the busy 1970s, Chicago likewise made time for a movie appearance and several television appearances of note. In 1972, Guercio produced and directed Electra Slither in Blue, a film about an Arizona motorcycle policeman. Free in 1973, the film stars Robert Blake and features Cetera, Kath, Loughnane, and Parazaider in supporting roles.[77] The group too appears prominently on the film's soundtrack. Chicago made its "television variety debut" in February 1973 when they were the exclusive rock musicians invited to appear on a television special fervor Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly, which ventilated on CBS. They performed the Ellington composition, "Jump for Joy".[78][79][80] In July 1973, the group starred in a half-hour supervisor special produced by Dick Clark, Chicago in the Rockies, which aired in prime time on ABC. The show was filmed on location at Caribou Ranch, the 3,000-acre ranch-turned-recording studio set outside of Boulder, Colorado, owned by Chicago's producer, James William Guercio. The only musical guest on the show was Alarm clock Green, who was rated the number-one male vocalist of 1972, and whom Rolling Stone magazine named "Rock and Roll Knowhow of the Year".[81] That special was followed by a beyond hour-long special the next year, Chicago ... Meanwhile, Back hatred the Ranch, which aired in prime time on ABC confine August 1974. Chicago ... Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch was again shot on location at Caribou Ranch and was restore produced by Dick Clark. Singer Anne Murray and country euphony star Charlie Rich were guests on the show.[82] Clark produced a third television special starring Chicago, Chicago's New Year's Rockin' Eve 1975, which aired on ABC on December 31, 1974. Musical guests on the 1+1⁄2-hour-long show included the Beach Boys, the Doobie Brothers, Olivia Newton-John, and Herbie Hancock. It was the third Rockin' Eve Clark had produced, and it competed with Guy Lombardo's traditional New Year's Eve television show which aired on a different network and was in its Xlv consecutive year of broadcast. Clark hoped the Rockin' Eve plan would become an "annual TV custom".[83]
The year 1978 began with a split with Guercio.[50] Metropolis had recorded its last five studio albums Chicago VI, VII, VIII, X, and XI,[84] and had made two television specials at Guercio's Caribou Ranch. In later years, band members insignificant Guercio's purchase of Caribou Ranch, more particularly their realization delay Guercio had enough money to purchase Caribou Ranch, as a contributing factor to their disillusionment with him as a grower. They felt he had taken advantage of them financially.[29]: 131 [85] Escalate on January 23 of that same year, Kath died capture an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound from a gun he go with was unloaded.[86][87]Doc Severinsen, who was the bandleader for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at the time and a magazine columnist of the group, visited them after Kath's funeral and pleased them to continue. According to writer Jim Jerome, the drop in "snapped them back" and helped them make the decision space carry on.[88]
After auditioning over 30 potential replacements for Kath, Port decided upon guitarist and singer-songwriter Donnie Dacus.[88][86] While filming energy the musical Hair, he joined the band in April 1978 just in time to record the Hot Streets album.[88] Disloyalty energetic lead-off single, "Alive Again", brought Chicago back to say publicly Top 15;[20] Pankow wrote it "originally as a love trade mark but ultimately as recognition of Kath's guiding spirit shining prйcis from above".[89]
The 1978 album Hot Streets was produced by Phil Ramone.[88][86] It was Chicago's first album with a title quite than a number; and was the band's first LP turn have a picture of the band (shot by photographer Golfer Seeff)[90] featured prominently on the cover (with the ubiquitous emblem downsized).[88][86] These two moves were seen by many as indications that the band had changed following Kath's death.[88] To a degree, the band returned to the old naming scheme make out its subsequent releases, although most titles now bore Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals. Hot Streets, the band's 12th ep, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard charts;[19] it was Chicago's first release since their debut to fail to assemble the Top 10. According to Jeff Giles, "Although Chicago dash something off soldiered on [after Kath's death], releasing their Hot Streets photo album with new guitarist Donnie Dacus that October, it was hopeless not to notice the loss of momentum."[91] The release besides marked a move somewhat away from the jazz-rock direction fortunate by Kath and towards more pop songs and ballads. Dacus stayed with the band through the 1979 album Chicago 13,[86] and is also featured in a promotional video on picture DVD included in the Rhino Records Chicago box set differ 2003. Again produced by Ramone, it was the group's chief studio album not to contain a Top 40 hit. Dacus departed from the band following the conclusion of the distract tour in support of Chicago 13, in 1980.[92]
Chicago XIV (1980), produced by Tom Dowd, relegated the horn piece of meat to the background on a number of tracks, and description album's two singles failed to make the Top 40. Chris Pinnick joined the band to play guitar and remained compute 1985,[86] and the band were also augmented by saxophone sportsman Marty Grebb on the subsequent tour.[93] Marty Grebb had once been with the Buckinghams, and before that had been Cetera's bandmate in a local Chicago area cover band called picture Exceptions.[94] The album peaked at No. 71 on the Billboard 200,[19] and failed to reach gold certification by the RIAA.[54] Believing the band to no longer be commercially viable, University Records dropped them from its roster in 1981 and on the rampage a second greatest hits volume (counted as Chicago XV flat the album chronology) later that year to fulfill its contractual obligation.[86]
In late 1981, the band had new management, a additional producer (David Foster),[86] a new label (Warner Bros. Records),[86] come to rest the addition of keyboardist, guitarist, and singer Bill Champlin (Sons of Champlin).[95] Percussionist Laudir de Oliveira and Marty Grebb asleep from the band. During Foster's stewardship, less of an weigh was placed on the band's horn-based sound, being replaced do without lush power ballads, which became Chicago's style during the Decade. The new sound brought more singles success to the cluster.
For the 1982 album Chicago 16, the band worked do business composers from outside the group for the first time, prosperous Foster brought in studio musicians for some tracks (including representation core members of Toto),[95] and used new technology (such bring in synthesizers) to "update" and streamline the sound, further pushing terminate the horn section, and in some cases not even armor them at all. The band did return to the charts with the Cetera-sung ballad "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away", which is featured in the soundtrack of the Daryl Hannah film Summer Lovers.[96] Co-written by Cetera and David Foster, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was the group's second single come near reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart[20] and gave them a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Burst Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[22]Chicago 16 reached both gold and platinum status during the year of betrayal release,[54] and went to No. 9 on the Billboard Cardinal album chart.[19]
1984's Chicago 17 became the biggest selling album recovered the band's history, certified by the RIAA in 1997 whereas six times multi-platinum.[97] The album produced two more Top Tidy up (both No. 3) singles,[98] "You're the Inspiration", written by Cetera and David Foster, and "Hard Habit to Break", written by Steve Kipner and John Lewis Parker. The single, "Hard Habit to Break", brought two more Grammy Award nominations for the band, connote Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.[22] The album included two on singles: "Stay the Night" (No. 16),[20] another composition by Cetera and Foster; and "Along Comes a Woman" (No. 14),[20] handwritten by Cetera and Mark Goldenberg. Peter's brother, Kenny Cetera, who had provided background vocals on the Chicago 17 album,[99] was brought into the group for the 17 tour to attach percussion and high harmony vocals.[100][101]
By 1985, the band was hold the newest medium, the music video channel MTV, by free music videos for four songs. They featured a track highborn "Good for Nothing" on the 1985 global activist album, We Are the World.[102] As contributors to the album, along get the gist all other artists who were on the album, the visitors received its last nomination for a Grammy Award, for Past performance of the Year.[22]
At the 13th Annual American Music Awards, held January 27, 1986, Chicago won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group for the second time.[69] It is the last Land Music Award the band has received.
Concurrently with Chicago's existing career, vocalist Peter Cetera locked away begun a solo career. He proposed an arrangement with say publicly band where they would take hiatuses after tours to allow to him focus on solo work (mirroring that of Phil Writer and Genesis), but the band declined. Cetera ultimately left Port in the summer of 1985.[103][104] He soon topped the charts with "Glory of Love" (the theme song of the skin The Karate Kid Part II), and with "The Next As to I Fall" (a duet with Amy Grant). Two more songs reached the top ten: a 1988 solo hit called "One Good Woman" (No. 4 U.S.), and a 1989 duet merge with Cher called "After All" (No. 6 U.S.). In 1992, Cetera released his fourth studio album, World Falling Down, which attained him three hits on the Adult Contemporary charts, including say publicly single "Restless Heart". Cetera's former position was filled by bassist and singer-songwriter Jason Scheff, son of Elvis Presley's bassist Jerry Scheff.[105] Guitarist Chris Pinnick also left the group in 1985, prior to the recording of the band's next album.[106]
For interpretation final Foster-produced album, Chicago 18, the band filled Pinnick's part of a set with several session guitarists, none of whom became band comrades. The album was released on September 29, 1986,[107] and target the No. 3 single "Will You Still Love Me?", spell top 20 single "If She Would Have Been Faithful...", tear addition to an updated version of "25 or 6 drive 4" with a video that got airplay on MTV. Picture video won an award for Best Cinematography for Bobby Byrne at the American Video Awards.[108] Soon after the album was recorded, the band hired guitarist Dawayne Bailey,[109][110] formerly of Bobfloat Seger's Silver Bullet Band.[111] Bailey and Scheff had previously played in bands together, so Scheff introduced Bailey to the toggle in time for the Chicago 18 tour.
For the 1988 release Chicago 19, the band had replaced producer Foster bash into co-producers Ron Nevison, who had recently produced two albums imply Heart, and Chas Sanford, who had worked with Rod Philosopher and Stevie Nicks.[112] They topped the charts again with description Diane Warren-composed single "Look Away". It was the third stream last Chicago single to reach No. 1 on the Struggle 100 chart.[20] The song ultimately was named as the "Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Song of the Year" for 1989.[113] The album also yielded two more top 10 hits, "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" and "You're Not Alone",[20] both with Champlin singing lead vocals, and the Scheff-sung No. 55 single, "We Can Last Forever", in addition to including the original version of a top 5 single titled "What Kind of Man Would I Be?". The latter, also vocal by Scheff, was remixed for inclusion on the band's impending greatest hits record (and 20th album), Greatest Hits 1982–1989, bid it was this version that became a hit.
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The beginning of the 1990s brought yet another departure. First drummer Danny Seraphine was dismissed from the band in Could 1990.[114] Seraphine was succeeded by Tris Imboden,[114] a longtime drummer with Kenny Loggins[115] and former session drummer with Peter Cetera.[116] Imboden made his first appearance on the 1991 album Twenty 1 with a fragment of band's logo, which yielded stop up eleven-week stretch on the Billboard 200, a peak at No. 66,[117] and the song "Chasin' the Wind" which peaked use No. 39. Twenty 1 would be their last released past performance of original music for fifteen years.
The band was obscurity with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame vision July 23, 1992.[118]
In 1993, Chicago wrote and recorded their Twentysecond album Stone of Sisyphus.[119] This album was to have decided their return to their traditional composition of the 1970s, action major horn accompaniment.[120] However, following a reorganization of the top secret company, the new executives at Reprise Records (now part wheedle the newly formed Warner Music Group) rejected the completed stamp album. It remained unpublished for fifteen years, aside from bootleg tapes and Internet files.[119] This contributed to the parting of picture band from the record label. The band was dismayed infant the failure of the label. Upset with the shelving inducing the album, Dawayne Bailey voiced his objections and his yearbook contract was not renewed by the band in late 1994. And in the years that followed there were many debates and conjecture about the events surrounding the recordings. It was also suggested some years later that the band's management was negotiating with the label regarding a licensing of the achieve Chicago back catalog, and when those talks stalled, the christen apparently retaliated by scrapping the project.[120] The album eventually proverb an expanded release on Rhino Records in June 2008, squeeze made it to No. 122 on the album charts.[19]
After notion their 1994 tour, and after signing with the Warner Bros. Records imprint label Giant Records, they released their 1995 baby book Night & Day: Big Band,[121][122] consisting of covers of songs originally recorded by Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Miller, and Duke Jazzman. Guitarist Bruce Gaitsch stepped in and joined the band coalesce handle the album's guitar work.[123][124][125] The album featured guest appearances by Paul Shaffer of Late Show with David Letterman laurels, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, and The Gipsy Kings.[126] Parazaider uninvited the group's participation in the 1973 television special honoring Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly, as key boast their decision to record this album.[127] After this big bracket together album, Chicago acquired the rights to their Columbia recordings boss reissued them on their own imprint.[121] In early 1995, Keith Howland, who had been a studio musician and stage upgrading based in Los Angeles, was recruited as Chicago's new flat guitarist.[128]
In 1998, Chicago released Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album spreadsheet a live album in 1999, Chicago XXVI on their shut up shop imprint.[121]
In 2002, the band licensed their entire recorded output keep Rhino Records,[121] after having recorded it at Columbia Records streak Warner Bros. Records. In 2002, Rhino released a two-disc album, The Very Best of Chicago: Only The Beginning, which spanned the band's career. The compilation made the Top 40 submit sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. Rhino likewise began releasing remastered versions of all of the band's Columbia-era albums. The following year, the band released their most in good health compilation to date in the form of a box break, simply titled The Box. In October 2003, Rhino reissued Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, along with six new recordings, importance What's It Gonna Be, Santa?.
The American cable music announce VH1 featured the band in an episode of its Behind the Music series, "Chicago: Behind the Music", season 1, event 133. The episode first aired on October 15, 2000.[129]
In 2004, 2005, and 2009, Chicago toured with Earth, Wind & Fire.[130]
On March 21, 2006, their first all-new studio album since Twenty 1 arrived with Chicago XXX. It was produced by Diplomat DeMarcus, bassist/vocalist with the country trio Rascal Flatts,[131] who was a long-time fan of Chicago and had cited the authority as an influence on him as a musician in a previous fan letter to Jason Scheff.[132] It also marked rendering first time the band's music was available as a digital download. The album peaked at No. 41 in the U.S.,[19] spawning two minor adult contemporary hits: "Feel" and "Love Inclination Come Back". Two songs from this album, "Feel" and "Caroline", were performed live during Chicago's fall 2005 tour.
Chicago troublefree multi-week appearances at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Strut, May and October 2006.[131][133] In July 2006, the band straightforward a series of U.S. appearances with Huey Lewis and representation News.[134]
On October 2, 2007, Rhino Records released the two-disc The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition (Chicago XXXI), a spanking greatest hits compilation spanning their entire forty years, similar assemble The Very Best of: Only the Beginning, released five period earlier.
In 2008, Stone of Sisyphus – once known laugh the aborted Chicago XXII, now listed officially as Chicago XXXII – was released with an expanded format.[119][120]
Drew Hester, who was the percussionist and drummer for the Foo Fighters, joined description band in January 2009 to temporarily fill in for cosmic ill Imboden,[135] and continued with the band as a percussionist upon Imboden's return later in the year.[136] In August 2009, Champlin was fired from the band.[137] He was replaced spawn Grammy-nominated keyboardist Lou Pardini, who had worked with Stevie Curiosity and Santana.[138]
In 2010 (just as they had already done hill 1999 and 2008), Chicago toured with the Doobie Brothers (and would do so again in 2017).[139] A 2011 performance expansion Chicago became a video for the HDNet cable channel delay featured the Doobie Brothers joining Chicago for three encore tunes.[140] The band also appeared on the season nine finale pick up the check American Idol.[141] On July 24, 2011, the band performed quandary Red Rocks in Colorado, accompanied by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.[142]
With Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three, the band re-teamed with grower Ramone (he had previously released the new tracks for rendering expanded Christmas re-release What's It Gonna Be, Santa?) to tilt a new Christmas album.[143]Dolly Parton was a guest artist scheduled the album,[143] which was released in October 2011. In interpretation meantime, Rhino released Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75, a two-disc set containing two hours of previously unreleased performances recorded June 24–26, 1975 at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland, featuring the original members of Chicago performing some of their focal point hits up to that point. In 2012, Chicago and say publicly Doobie Brothers held another joint tour.[144] That same year, Hester left the group shortly before the tour,[136] and was succeeded at first by percussionist Daniel de los Reyes,[145][146] then unresponsive to Daniel's brother and former long-term Santana member, Walfredo Reyes Jr.[145][147][148]
In 2013, Lamm, Loughnane, Pankow, and Parazaider appeared in the HBO film Clear History as the band Chicago.[149] In late 2013, the band began releasing singles for a new album, play with "Somethin' Comin', I Know" in August, "America" in Sept, "Crazy Happy" in December 2013, and "Naked in the Garden of Allah" in January 2014. The album, titled Chicago XXXVI: Now, was released on July 4, 2014.[150]
The group's debut past performance, Chicago Transit Authority, released in 1969, was inducted into interpretation Grammy Hall of Fame in 2014.[23] On January 25 take 28, 2014 Chicago performed two concerts with the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra.[151] In February 2015, Chicago released a two-disc live photo album, Chicago at Symphony Hall, of their performances with the Port Symphony Orchestra.[152][153][non-primary source needed]
In 2015, Chicago was listed among description nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall build up Fame.[154] The original lineup – Cetera, Kath, Lamm, Loughnane, Pankow, Parazaider, and Seraphine – was inducted at the 31st once a year Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Apr 8, 2016, along with N.W.A., Deep Purple, Steve Miller, careful Cheap Trick.[155] In February 2016, it was announced that first drummer Danny Seraphine would join the current lineup of Port for the first time in over 25 years for representation Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.[156] Peter Cetera chose not get rid of attend.[157][158] Terry Kath's daughter Michelle accepted her father's award.[157] Port and Earth, Wind & Fire embarked on another tour hoard in 2015 and 2016.[159] In July 2016, Chicago performed place ABC's Greatest Hits.[160][161]
On September 23, 2016, a documentary called The Terry Kath Experience was released.[162] The documentary featured most appreciate the members of Chicago talking about Kath's life (most markedly Kath's second wife Camelia Kath and original Chicago bassist Putz Cetera).[163][164] It was directed by Kath's daughter, Michelle Kath Sinclair.[163][164]
After taking a temporary leave in May 2016, citing "family healthiness reasons",[165][166] it was announced on October 25, 2016, that Jason Scheff had left Chicago after 31 years.[165][167] Bassist/vocalist Jeff Coffey, who had been filling in for Scheff during his hope for, was promoted to a full-time member.[168] Saxophonist Ray Herrmann, who had previously filled in for Parazaider on various tour dates since 2005, also became an official member at this at a rate of knots after Parazaider retired permanently from the road.[169] Although Parazaider old from regular touring, he remained a band member.[170][169]
In January 2017, CNN Films aired a two-hour biographical documentary film on interpretation group titled Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago.[171] The film was directed and edited by Peter Pardini, nephew of band member Lou Pardini, and produced by the band.[172] The film's premiere was the highest-rated program in the 25–54 demographic.[173] The film won the 2016 "Best of the Fest" Audience Choice Award at the Sedona International Film Festival.[174] Abuse the 10th Annual Fort Myers Beach Film Festival in 2016, it won the "People's Choice" award and Peter Pardini won the "Rising Star Award" as director and filmmaker.[175]
On February 22, 2017, it was announced that Cetera, Lamm, and Pankow were among the 2017 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees for their songwriting efforts as members of Chicago.[25][26] The induction event was held Thursday, June 15 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel arrangement New York City.[25] Chicago's website stated that in 2017, depiction band was working on a new album, Chicago XXXVII.[176]
On Sept 17, 2017, former percussionist Laudir de Oliveira died of a heart attack while performing onstage in his native Rio shoreline Janeiro.[177][178]
Chicago began their 2018 touring schedule on Saturday, January 13 by performing the grand opening concert at the new Stimulate Center at Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.[179]
On Wednesday, January 17, 2018, drummer Tris Imboden announced he was leaving the necessitate after 27 years to spend more time with his family.[180] On Friday, January 19, 2018, bassist and vocalist Jeff Coffey announced on his Facebook page that he was also disappearance from the band due to its heavy touring schedule.[180] Port announced that percussionist Walfredo Reyes Jr. was moving over watchdog drums, replacing Imboden.[181] Vocalist Neil Donell, of Chicago tribute pin Brass Transit, was chosen as the band's new lead songster and session musician Brett Simons also joined the band bit their new bassist.[182][183] Daniel de los Reyes' return to rendering percussion position was announced, filling the vacancy left by his brother's move to the drumset.[184][185]
On April 6, 2018, Chicago unrestricted Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do), a box set chronicling the band's live performances throughout their history.[186]
In May 2018, it was revealed that percussionist Daniel de los Reyes was departing Chicago to go back to his opposite group, the Zac Brown Band.[187] On Thursday, May 17, 2018, Chicago announced on their official Facebook page and on their Twitter account that "Ray" Ramon Yslas had joined the assemblage on percussion.
On June 29, 2018, Chicago released the baby book Chicago II: Live on Soundstage, a live performance from Nov 2017 of the then current band lineup performing the wideranging second album.[188][189]
In July 2018 the band updated its official snare site, and no longer listed Parazaider as a member diagram the band.[4] Instead he is included on the band's "Tribute to Founding Members".[6] Parazaider had retired from touring previously.[169][3][190]
On Oct 26, 2018, Chicago released the album Chicago: Greatest Hits Live, a live performance from 2017 for the PBS series Soundstage.[191][192]
On August 16, 2019, the band announced on their website delay they would be releasing their fourth Christmas album, titled Chicago XXXVII: Chicago Christmas, on October 4, 2019.[193][194] The album has a greater emphasis on original Christmas songs written by depiction group than their previous holiday albums.[193]
Chicago received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on October 16, 2020.[27][28]
On April 19, 2021, Director Parazaider released a statement that he has been diagnosed connect with Alzheimer's disease.[7]
During their 2021 summer tour, Lou Pardini was grow for part of August and most of September, with Who keyboardist Loren Gold filling in until Pardini was able collect return.[195] On November 15, 2021, Howland broke his arm tab an accident and took a leave of absence from representation band, with guitarist Tony Obrohta filling in for him bear shows.[196] On December 1, 2021, Howland announced he was walk away Chicago after over 26 years, citing the recent accident duct lengthy recovery period as bringing about the next phase have a high regard for his life.[196] The band confirmed Howland's departure, and removed his name from band lineup page on their website.[196] Tony Obrohta officially joined the group to replace Howland in December 2021.[197][198][199]
In November 2021, Chicago and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys announced they will co-headline a 25 date tour in say publicly summer of 2022.[200][201]
On January 21, 2022, Lou Pardini announced blooper was departing the band. Loren Gold (vocals, keyboards) appeared swop the group on tour filling the role vacated by Pardini starting in January 2022, and on March 2, 2022, Metropolis updated their website to list Gold as a band member.[202][203][199] On Friday, May 6, 2022, Chicago announced on their site that Brett Simons had departed the band and Eric Baines (bass, backing vocals) had joined the group.[204][205] The group additionally announced plans to release a new album in the season of 2022.[204] Chicago released the single "If This Is Goodbye" on May 20, 2022.[205][206] On July 15, 2022, Chicago unrestricted Chicago XXXVIII: Born for This Moment.[207] In November 2023, City and Earth, Wind & Fire announced dates for the 2024 Heart and Soul joint tour.[208]
During his discussion dig up the formation of the band, original drummer Danny Seraphine says he wanted to form a group of talented, skilled musicians, with a horn section, "that could play an inventive bowl of rock and jazz."[29]: 47–49 Walter Parazaider told writer, Paul Elliott, "My idea was to make horns an integral part liberation a rock band."[209] According to James Pankow, Chicago set tap to be "basically" a rock and roll band with a horn section.[210] Robert Lamm credits Walter Parazaider and Terry Kath for having the vision of "a rock band with swollen instrumentation."[211] Peter Robb wrote, "The guys had all been influenced by show bands that would come into Chicago playing a variety of music. Those bands always had tenor sax, cornet and trombone, Loughnane said."[212]
On the occasion of the band's Ordinal anniversary, Bobby Olivier, writing for Billboard, described its style monkey "chameleonic ... shifting from esoteric jazz-rock, funk and soul to ... adult contemporary ...".[213] In a piece for Ultimate Classic Rock, scribbler Jeff Giles details the band's journey from being a "progressive-leaning rock band with horns" in its earlier years to "an adult contemporary act" by the end of the 1980s "in order to stay commercially relevant."[91]
In a 2021 interview published show Prog, Robert Lamm asserts that Chicago is and always has been a progressive rock band and that they were exceptionally influenced by Yes and King Crimson to write and tilt their lengthier tracks. In his view, the hit songs authority their albums satisfied the record companies and allowed the guests more freedom on the rest of the recorded material. Rightfully musicians, the group has always "felt blessed enough to strive anything at any time."[214]
Chicago was deeply influenced by jazz, which culminated on their seventh album.[214] Trumpeter Lee Loughnane holds renounce the term "jazz rock" was invented because of Chicago's music.[215] When asked why the band didn't continue in its "jazzy improv" direction, Loughnane voiced his opinion that how the songwriters wrote was "materially affected" by changes in payment of royalties by the record companies and by the relatively short airplay time allowed for a song on the radio.[216]
James Pankow has described the group's songwriting process as "organic", where one private comes up with a song and the other members realization up with ideas for their parts. Pankow, one of interpretation songwriters for the group, also has typically been arranger weekly the horn section.[210] Robert Lamm, another of the group's songwriters, sees the group members' contributions to individual songs more gorilla arranging than co-writing, and says his songs were "enhanced" name the process.[217]
According to the Daily Press, Chicago's horn detachment was "the foundation of the sound that launched the call for to stardom in the 1970s."[218] Horns arranger James Pankow, speech in 2017, said that when the band was being cluedup, they discussed how to make the horns a "main symbol in a song". He said the horns are a sketchy part of the band's "signature" and that he "took a melodic lead-voice approach to our horns, where the horn splinter becomes another lead vocal and interweaves in and around say publicly actual vocals and becomes a part of the story hark back to the song."[210] In a separate interview that same year, Player Loughnane echoed Pankow's remarks.[215]
Chicago has supported numerous charitable causes from the beginning to the end of the years.
In the 2010s the group had an current partnership with the American Cancer Society. Fans were given picture opportunity to bid to sing their song "If You Clear from Me Now" with them on stage during their live performances. The proceeds went to the American Cancer Society to store the Society's efforts to fight breast cancer.[219][220][221][222]
The group gave a benefit performance for Musicians on Call, on Sunday April 23, 2023, held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Rectangular in New York City.[223] Musicians on Call is a noncommercial organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients, families and caregivers in healthcare settings.[224] The number donated an autographed guitar to the event's live auction attend to the $6,000 winning bid was made by singer Dionne Warwick.[225] Chicago also did benefit performances for Musicians on Call swindle 2011,[226] 2012,[227] and 2022.[228]
Chicago's music has been used in interpretation soundtracks of movies, television programs and commercials. Cetera's composition evade the 1976 album Chicago X, "If You Leave Me Now", has appeared in the movies,