R.E.O. Speedwagon, "Hi Infidelity"

I always thought of R.E.O. Speedwagon as an '80s band, but their breakthrough album, "Hi Infidelity" from 1980 was actually the band's ELEVENTH album. Formed in 1967, R.E.O. spent basically the first decade of their career struggling to expand past their Midwestern roots. We'll talk about their major change in sound over the years, and how the pressure to go pop worked really well…until it didn't. Also–the Bo Diddley beat, a Joe Cocker ripoff, and how Netflix's "Ozark" brought R.E.O. back from the dead.

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R.E.O. Speedwagon, "Hi Infidelity" is an episode from The Radio Ga Ga Podcast by Justine Piehowski.

This episode is 41:16 long.

This episode was published on Jan 15, 2021.

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