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Dave Ling

"I don’t think I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick and said I ruined the band" Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans

Styx, group portrait, New York, 1978, L-R John Panazzo, James Young, Tommy Shaw, Dennis De Young, Chuck Panazzo. .

Best of 2025: Another archive story that became one of our most read in 2025, Styx singer Dennis DeYoung on the bad blood and reasons to forgive…

Having co-founded Styx in 1972, keyboard player and singer Dennis DeYoung wrote many of their finest songs, including Come Sail Away and The Grand Illusion, as well as the US chart-topping ballad Babe. Styx broke up following 1983's poorly received concept record Kilroy Was Here, and although he was part of a reunion in 1990, DeYoung was controversially replaced by the band nine years later when a medical condition prevented him from touring. In 2019 he released 26 East, Vol. 1, the first of two farewell albums, and told Prog about his life and times.

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