The word is that Dennis De Young and Tommy Shaw – the Lennon and McCartney of Styx – will be getting together soon. Music lovers everywhere can only hope this is the first tentative step toward a full-blown Styx reunion – not because there are all that many pressing musical questions left unanswered from the Kilroy Was Here days but simply because if the boys in the band were to...

Paradoxically, Styx and Kansas, two of the most popular acts of the '70s, were often confused with each other, despite the fact that one was named after the mythological river of Hades and the other for a farmland state in the middle of the U.S.A. Maybe it was the similarity of their sound – Midwestern hard rock leavened with fleet-fingered technical virtuosity more typical of British bands...