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Title: Styx - Pieces Of Eight
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1978, Progressive Rock, Arena Art Rock, Chicago, Illinois 6/26
Matrix #: SP 4724
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks good, some very light marks (CC) | Members: Dennis D (47' - Alive), Tommy S (53' - Alive), James Y (49' - Alive), Chuck P (48' - Alive), John P (48' - 96')
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Tommy Shaw pulled one album idea from seeing a friend crushed by unemployment, grounding Styx’s fantasy-scale record in real working-man panic.
2. Album Art: Hipgnosis built the cover around wealth, masks, and illusion, extending the album’s obsession with money as both prize and trap.
3. Band Drama: Pieces Of Eight kept Styx balanced between Shaw and Young’s harder guitar push and Dennis DeYoung’s theatrical instincts, a split that later widened.

6/23/2026 CC