Many of you asked for Rock Candy Records reissues to complete collections, so here’s chart-busters REO SPEEDWAGON 1979’s “Nine Lives“, featured for the first time here.
The title says it all. REO Speedwagon had been knocking out albums since the early Seventies, forever the support band and virtually unknown outside their American mid-west stomping ground. Naming their album ‘Nine Lives’ was a tribute to the fact that they had managed to record nine albums for EPIC records, a truly amazing feat baring in mind that they had yet to secure a hit single or even secure a foothold in the trendy East and West Coast concert halls.
REO Speedwagon’s previous album had signalled a shift in style towards a slightly more refined sound and ‘N
