Chicago 18

Performer: Chicago
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: When Peter Cetera left Chicago for a successful solo career, fans wondered if the long-running band could continue to deliver the goods. This 1986 release, replacing Cetera with Jason Scheff, answered the question with a strong if not resounding "yes." The album produced two Top 40 singles ("Will You Still Love Me" and "If She Would Have Been Faithful") and took the band in a higher-tech direction, without leaving behind the kind of mellow tunefulness that earned them acclaim and longevity in the first place. That said, CHICAGO 18 was probably the last brisk-selling release of the band's career, as public taste veered off into different avenues.

Chicago was the longest-running and most commercially successful of the hordes of jazz-rock bands with horn sections that sprang up in the late-1960s wake of Blood, Sweat & Tears. After myriad personnel changes (including the death of founding guitarist Terry Kath due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound), Chicago eventually mutated into a more conventional pop group that was able to score hit after hit well into the '80s, usually with romantic ballads. They remain among the best-selling American bands of all time. In the mid 1990s they briefly returned to their roots with an album of big band-era standards given the Chicago treatment.

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