Dickinson began his career in music fronting small pub bands at school and University, including Styx ( not the American band of the same name ) in 1976, Speed, ( 1977 – 1978 ), and Shots in early 1979.

Styx mentions the road in their 1979 song " Borrowed Time " as well as " Back to Chicago " from 1990.

* " Babe " ( Styx song ), a song on Styx's 1979 album Cornerstone

*" Renegade " ( Styx song ), a 1979 song

Styx brought their Grand Illusion to the RAC on October 24, 1979.

" Renegade " is a 1979 hit song recorded by the American rock band Styx.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

* Dennis DeYoung uses Tiresias in the song " Castle Walls " on the 1977 Styx album The Grand Illusion.

* " Cold War ", a song by Styx, in the album Kilroy Was Here

Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the popular 1970s rock group Styx, filmed the music video for Desert Moon, also the title of his first solo album, at the Santa Paula train depot in 1984.

( However, in very late 1974, the station started playing the track " Lady " by a Chicago band called Styx from an older album of theirs, resulting in other stations around the country adding the song and making the track Styx ' first national Top 40 hit.

The Serpent Is Rising would foreshadow later endeavors by the group — the so-called concept album is an idiom upon which Styx would rely heavily by the 1980s.

In the spring of 1975, nearly two years after the album had been released, " Lady " hit No. 6 in the U. S., and Styx II went gold soon after.

Styx ' seventh Album, The Grand Illusion was released on July 7, 1977 ( 7 / 7 / 77 ) and became Styx ' breakthrough album, reaching Triple Platinum certification.

In January 1981, Styx released Paradise Theatre, a concept album that became their biggest hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard pop albums chart and yielding five singles, including the top ten hits " The Best of Times " by DeYoung (# 3 ) and " Too Much Time on My Hands " by Shaw (# 9 ).

Styx toured across the U. S. in the spring and summer of 1991, but despite the success of the album, a top 3 single and a top 25 single, the band was dropped after A & M Records was purchased by PolyGram Records.

They documented the reunion tour with a two-disc live set, 1997's Return to Paradise, which featured three new studio tracks: " On My Way ", " Paradise " ( a soft rock hit that also appears in another version on Dennis DeYoung's Hunchback of Notre Dame album ) and " Dear John ", a tribute to the late Styx drummer John Panozzo that has become a cult favorite among Styx fans.

Burtnik left Styx in September 2003 and recorded a solo album, Welcome to Hollywood.

In 2005 Styx released an album of cover tunes, Big Bang Theory, which reached the Billboard Top 50 on the album charts, their highest charting album since 1990.

Styx did score three Triple-Platinum albums — Paradise Theater, Pieces of Eight and The Grand Illusion — and one Double-Platinum album — Cornerstone — on the same date, November 14, 1984.

Styx achieved another Double-Platinum album — Greatest Hits ( Volume I )— on August 23, 2005.

Also, in the same episode, Eric's friends claim they hate Styx, despite Kelso and Fez trying to steal a Styx album from a record store.

A tour in support of the album began on 27 March 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Styx and REO Speedwagon joining the band on US dates.

Cyclorama is the fourteenth studio album by Styx, released in 2003.

From 1977 to 1981, Styx released four consecutive albums that have been certified Multi-Platinum, for at least 2 million units sold each, by the RIAA: The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Cornerstone, and Paradise Theatre.

* " Never Say Never ", a song by Styx from Cornerstone

* " First Time ", by Styx from Cornerstone

On the heels of its belated hit single, Styx signed with A & M Records and released Equinox ( 1975 ), which sold well and yielded a minor hit in " Lorelei ", No. 27 in the U. S. More importantly, it contained the rock anthem " Suite Madame Blue ", which gained the band considerable recognition and airplay on FM radio in the relatively new Album Oriented Rock ( AOR ) format.

Jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole, country singer Hank Williams, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Melvin Franklin of The Temptations, and guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx are among the many musicians to get their start in Montgomery.

Homer says they were killed by Apollo before they had any beards, consistent with their being bound to columns in the Underworld by snakes, with the nymph of the Styx in the form of an owl over them.

) Similarly, American bands such as Lonestar, Styx, Blue Öyster Cult and Isaac Hayes ( whose lone hit in the UK, " Chocolate Salty Balls ," was in the " Chef " persona from South Park ) are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in their respective native countries.

On June 5, 1999, Styx played their final show with Dennis DeYoung for the Children's Miracle Network Telethon ( see Children's Miracle Network Hospitals ).

In November 2010, Styx announced that they would be filming their concert in Memphis on November 9 for a DVD.

Styx also covered " Not Dead Yet " on their 1990 release Edge of the Century and performed the song in concert for that album's tour.

Originally called " Paradox ", the band changed their name on Dickinson's suggestion to " Styx ", unaware of the American act with the same name.

Between Leonard joining the band and the start of their television break, Rockapella began to pick up fame, starring in a Whoopi Goldberg HBO special " Chez Whoopi ", a Taco Bell commercial, and opened for acts such as Chuck Berry, Styx, Billy Joel, and their a cappella idols The Persuasions, who the group had met on the Do It A Cappella special.

The Arena rock trend of the 1970s continued in the 1980s with bands like Styx, Rush, Journey, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, ZZ Top, and Aerosmith which were popular into the early 1980s, with hair metal taking their place later.

In June 2011 Foreigner ( again along with Styx ) supported Journey on their UK tour.

Each album by the band has a different theme: Have a Ball focuses on classic 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s songs by singer / songwriters like Elton John, Neil Diamond, and John Denver ; Are a Drag consists entirely of show tunes, Blow in the Wind consists of 60s classics, Take a Break consists entirely of contemporary R & B songs by artists such as Boyz 2 Men, Lionel Richie, and Vanessa L. Williams ; their fifth album, Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah, was recorded live at an actual bar mitzvah and consists of pop music from the 1960s through the 1980s by artists such as REO Speedwagon, Styx and The Beatles, as well as traditional songs like " Hava Nagila ".

" Mr. Roboto " is a song written by Dennis DeYoung and performed by the band Styx on their 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here.

In their song " King of Bedside Manor " off their album Gordon, the Barenaked Ladies shout " Styx!

In 1987, A & M Records had released a compilation album of Styx tracks as volume 15 of their " Classics " series, but since A & M did not own the rights to the original recording of " Lady " ( which had been released by Wooden Nickel Records through a distribution deal with RCA Records ), the track could not be included on the disc.

With the positive response and a new record label ( CMC International ), Styx returned to the studio in 1998 and began work on what would become their first studio album in eight years.

Those bands and artists that have inspired a cult following in their fans tend to have a significant tribute band presence as well, such as Status Quo, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Styx, Pink Floyd, AC / DC, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Madonna, The Misfits, Queen, Alice in Chains, Grateful Dead, Van Halen, ABBA, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Rammstein, Neil Diamond, and Steely Dan.

The ragtag team is then forced to flee, with Lobo acting as their guide, gaining Ekron's help and discovering their real enemy, Lady Styx, bringing havoc and mayhem in the entire Galaxy.