"We'd stay up all night drinking, chasing girls, partying – and our pilot was with us. The next morning, he was flying the plane!" The rise, fall and rehabilitation of REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon studio portrait circa 1978.

Best of 2025: A recent bust up between longtime REO Speedwagon singer Kevin Cronin and the band’s founding bassist (and sole remaining original member) Bruce Hall has effectively marked the end of the hard rock veterans as a touring band.

But hard times weren’t a new thing in the Speedwagon story, as Classic Rock discovered when we spoke to the pair around the release of their fifteenth studio album, Find Your Own Way Home, in 2007.