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They now tour as Styx with a new lead vocalist/keyboardist-Lawrence Gowan, formerly a major Canadian solo act in his own right back in the 80s-while DeYoung tours with an orchestra performing Styx songs and new material more in keeping with his personal artistic vision. They recorded another album with Burtnik before he left the band to be close to his family. Unwilling to put up with it, the rest of Styx expelled him from the band. In the mid-90s, the hard feelings had faded enough for Styx to reunite to tour and record again, but DeYoung's control freakery began to raise its head once more not long after (and it also didn't help that DeYoung had announced that he had developed chronic fatigue syndrome with light and heat sensitivity, meaning touring would be very hard for him). They recorded the album Edge of The Century. In 1990 the band reunited-minus Shaw (who was in Damn Yankees around that time)-and hired Glen Burtnik as his replacement. The tour failed miserably, and in its wake the band broke up. DeYoung managed to turn the concert into a musical telling the story of the album this pleased neither his bandmates (who felt profoundly uncomfortable trying to act in between songs) nor the fans (who felt they were being cheated). The tensions came to a head in the form of the tour for Kilroy Was Here, an early-80s concept album cast around a 20 Minutes into the Future scenario in which Moral Guardians had succeeded in outlawing Rock & Roll. This brought him into direct conflict with most of the rest of the band, who were more interested in a harder, rocking sound than the soaring balladic style DeYoung envisioned. DeYoung, who had begun to take onto himself the role of 'band leader', attempted to steer Styx into a dramatic, almost operatic direction. Internally, the group was wracked with tension. The band had a string of top 40 hits throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, including such mainstays as 'Come Sail Away', 'Renegade', and 'Snowblind' (and in December 1975, they replaced Curulewski with Tommy Shaw, formerly of a local band called MS Funk).

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