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Paul Elliott

"I saw The Beatles and it all made sense. From that point I needed music like I needed air! There was no other choice for me”: The singer who scored two No.1 hits in the '80s with the band that had fired him a decade earlier

REO Speedwagon in 1981.

It was singer Kevin Cronin’s melodic sensibility that transformed REO Speedwagon into one of America’s biggest bands in the 1980s. And it was Cronin’s songs that gave the band their two US No.1 hits – the quintessential power ballads Keep On Loving You and Can’t Fight This Feeling.

In an interview with Classic Rock in 2010, Cronin described his career as “a wild ride” – and its starting point was when he saw The Beatles on TV in 1964.

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