Song of the Day 7/8: Styx, “Come Sail Away”

This one’s for Allan Loudell, who loved to tell the story of Styx playing at his high school prom in the early ’70s, back when the band was a popular Chicago-based regional act. The members had been together a decade at that point, but didn’t achieve wider popularity until the mid-70s. Between then and 1983, when it went on hiatus, Styx released five platinum LPs. Despite multiple personnel changes that saw lead singer Dennis DeYoung, who wrote most of their hits, kicked out of the band in the late ’90s, they’re still around today.