Styx biography
Consecutive Multi-Platinum albums
From 1977 to 1981, Styx released four consecutive albums that have been certified Multi-Platinum, for at least 2 million units sold each, by the RIAA:
The Grand Illusion,
Pieces of Eight,
Cornerstone, and
Paradise Theatre.
A longstanding, oft-repeated claim in the music industry and the mainstream press is that Styx were the first band to release four consecutive Triple-Platinum albums, signifying at least 3 million units sold. During the period when these albums charted, the RIAA's only certifications were for Gold (500,000 units sold) and Platinum (1 million). Multi-Platinum awards were introduced in late October 1984. Following this development, record companies submitted their most popular artists' sales records to accountants in order to achieve the new thresholds.
Styx did score three Triple-Platinum albums-Paradise Theater, Pieces of Eight and The Grand Illusion-and one Double-Platinum album-Cornerstone-on the same date, November 14, 1984. Complete and detailed historical sales figures for record albums are not readily available to the public, but the certifications, which can be found at the RIAA site, show that the feat the band actually achieved was being the first group to be awarded four consecutive Multi-Platinum albums with three of those ranking better than Double Platinum. Styx achieved another Double-Platinum album-Greatest Hits (Volume I)-on August 23, 2005.
In other media
- In Supernatural season 2 episode 12 "Nightshifter" the song Renegade plays as the episode ends
- In The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza", Homer walks into a record store and looks for records of his favourite bands. When the record store owner advises him to look at the 'Oldies' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says "Oldies?, but you got all the top bands in here. Styx? I just heard them on the King Biscuit Flower Hour."
- In the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the Robot Devil sings at one point "I will marry her now and confine her to Hell, How droll! How droll!, Where Styx is a river, and not just a band, Though they'll play the reception if all goes as planned."
- In the South Park episode "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut", Cartman reveals that he hates to leave things unfinished and that he has the urge to finish the song "Come Sail Away" whenever he hears the first few verses. Kyle sings the verses causing Cartman to sing the rest of the song very fast.
- Only 7 months after the episodes premiere, in November 1998, the CD Chef Aid: The South Park Album was released, where a professionally produced cover version of "Come Sail Away" sung by Cartman has been included.
- In the TV show Arrested Development, the actor Tony Hale dances and sings to the song "Mr. Roboto" inside of the family car.
- In the 1999 movie Big Daddy, the main character Sonny (played by Adam Sandler) chats with his date about how they both like Styx, while "Babe" plays on the radio. "Blue Collar Man" is also played during another part of the movie, and "Mr. Roboto" is mentioned as well.
- In the American comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks, in the episode "Girlfriends and Boyfriends", Nick makes advances towards Lindsay as he plays "Lady" on his stereo and sings to it.
- The song "Come Sail Away" appears in the Off-Broadway production Power Balladz.
- In an episode of That 70's Show, Eric Forman sings the intro to "The Grand Illusion" in his basement. He is excited that Styx will be playing a local show for Thanksgiving. He camped the night so he could get tickets. At the ticket window, Eric is the first and only one in line. Also, in the same episode, Eric's friends claim they hate Styx, despite Kelso and Fez trying to steal a Styx album from a record store.
- In an episode of Family Guy, Dennis DeYoung calls a fan-based Kiss public-access television cable TV show to bad mouth the group, when the show's host recognizes him, and dares him to compare "Detroit Rock City" to "Come Sail Away."
- The Pittsburgh Steelers have been playing the song "Renegade" at Heinz Field whenever the Steelers Steel Curtain defense comes onto the field.
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