LAWRENCE GOWAN WITH STYX AS LONG AS HE WAS A SOLO ARTIST

Jun 02, 2017

By Jane Brown

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Since 1999, Lawrence Gowan has never looked back on accepting an offer by Styx to join them as lead singer.

MACON, GA – OCTOBER 04: Rock Group STYX L/R: Chuck Panozzo, Ricky Phillips, Todd Sucherman, Tommy Shaw, James “J.Y.” Young and Lawrence Gowan. Portrait shoot at Macon City Auditorium on October 4, 2014 in Macon, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for STYX)

Formerly a successful Canadian solo artist, Gowan told Zoomer Radio’s Robbie Lane, when he was asked to succeed Dennis DeYoung it was hard to say no.

(Lawrence Gowan with Zoomer Radio’s Robbie Lane and Neil Hedley)

“This is a legendary band that’s asking. It’s kind of an honour to have something like that happen, but the first I thought was ‘I gotta find out if I can hit those notes’…so I went and got the Grand Illusion album out and put it on and…I realized I think I might be the right guy,” Gowan explained while sitting in on Robbie’s show.

Styx is celebrating their first album of new material in 14 years, called Radio Silence.

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