Chicago Biography

There are at least two artists with this name:
1. A popular American rock band
2. A psytrance artist
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1. Chicago, has launched an official website at http://chicagotheband.com

Lifetime achievements include a Grammy Award, multiple American Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor, and keys to and proclamations from an impressive list of US cities. Record sales top the 100,000,000 mark, and include 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 32 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in five decades. In Billboard Magazine’s recent list of Top 100 artists of all time, Chicago came in at #13, the highest charting American band. The line-up on tour will include original band members Robert Lamm on keyboards, vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone and Walt Parazaider on woodwinds, as well as Jason Scheff on bass, vocals, Tris Imboden on drums, Keith Howland on guitar, Lou Pardini on keyboards, vocals and Drew Hester on percussion.

They had a steady stream of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, such as:
1969: "Questions 67 and 68" - US#71 - sung by Cetera
1970: "Make Me Smile" - US#9 - sung by Kath
1970: "25 or 6 to 4" - US#4 (UK#7) - sung by Cetera

1972: "Saturday in the Park" - US#3 - sung by Cetera/Lamm
1974: "Wishing You Were Here" - US#11 - sung by Kath/Cetera
1976: "If You Leave Me Now" - US#1 (UK#1) - sung by Cetera
1982: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" - US#1 (UK#4) - sung by Cetera
1984: "Hard Habit to Break" - US#3 (UK#8) - sung by Cetera/Champlin
1984: "You're the Inspiration" - US#3 (UK#14) - sung by Cetera
1989: "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" - US#5 - sung by Scheff/Champlin

Discography:
The Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Chicago (1970)
Chicago III (1971)
Chicago V (1972)
Chicago VI (1973)
Chicago VII (1974)
Chicago VIII (1975)
Chicago X (1976)

Chicago XI (1977)
Hot Streets (1978)
Chicago 13 (1979)
Chicago XIV (1980)
Chicago 16 (1982)
Chicago 17(1984)
Chicago 18 (1986)
Chicago 19 (1988)
Twenty 1 (1991)
Night & Day Big Band (1995)
Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album (1998)
Chicago XXX (2006)
Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus (2008)

2. Chicago is a psytrance artist, the pseudonym of David Potter Christman. He is a member of 1200 Micrograms

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Last updated: 30 Aug 2011