“We showed up and Dire Straits were opening for us. The press slaughtered us, accusing us of being dinosaurs”: The epic story of Styx’s Pieces Of Eight,the pomp rock masterpiece that began to tear them apart

Styx posing for a photograph in 1977.

Styx were one of the biggest American rock bands of the 70s – and 1978’s Pieces Of Eight album was their high water mark. In 2013, estranged singer Dennis DeYoung and guitarists James ‘JY’ Young and Tommy Shaw sat down with Classic Rock Presents AOR magazine to look back on the making of a pomp rock masterpiece.