NEW YORK (Reuters) - REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath, who wrote the band's 1973 hit "Ridin' the Storm Out," has died at the age of 65, bandmate Kevin Cronin said. Richrath, who joined the U.S.

Kevin Cronin, Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall, and Alan Gratzer accompanied the University of Illinois marching band.

With record sales topping 40 million, for a brief period in the early 1980s REO Speedwagon were the most popular band in America. And the most reviled. But there’s more to REO then the power ballad ...

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — “Heard it from a friend who” said that REO Speedwagon will reunite in Champaign over the ...

Billy Idol, Huey Lewis, REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin and the Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine look back on the music video revolution, as MTV (remember MTV?) turns 40. July 28, 2021 “Bruce [Hall] has intended ...

DULUTH — REO Speedwagon’s invasion of Amsoil Arena next week has me feeling a bit nostalgic about growing up in the ’70s and ’80s and all of the great rock ’n’ roll that has fueled the soundtrack of ...

When REO Speedwagon released Hi Infidelity in 1980, it marked the start of a new chapter. In the years that followed, fans would place it as the moment that the group shifted from the harder edged ...

The lead singer of a classic rock band feels “disturbed and hurt" for being “knowingly excluded” from the group’s upcoming reunion. REO Speedwagon vocalist Kevin Cronin will not participate in a ...