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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = Chicago 18|
Type = [[Album]]|
Artist = [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] |
Cover = Chicago18.jpg |
Released = [[September 29]][[1986]] |
Recorded = Spring - Summer 1986|
Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Adult Contemporary]]|
Length = 45:19|
Label = [[Full Moon Records|Full Moon]]/[[Warner Bros.]] |
Producer = [[David Foster]]|
Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|2}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rghe4jo70waq~T1 link] |
Last album = ''[[Chicago 17]]''<br />(1984) |
This album = ''Chicago 18''<br />(1986) |
Next album = ''[[Chicago 19]]''<br />(1988) |
}}
'''''Chicago 18''''' is the eighteenth [[album]] by [[United States|American]] [[rock music|rock]] band [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] and was released in 1986. As the successor to 1984's multiplatinum smash hit ''[[Chicago 17]]'', this album marked a new era for Chicago: their post-[[Peter Cetera]] years.
After Cetera quit the band for a solo career in 1985, Chicago eventually hired [[Jason Scheff]], son of Jerry Scheff (who had backed up [[Elvis Presley]] for years), to replace Cetera's high register vocals and bass duties. In a twist of fate, Scheff was discovered after submitting a song demo for consideration on Cetera's second solo album. With Scheff's uncanny ability to replicate his predecessor, Chicago was able to continue. Although founding member [[Robert Lamm]] still took an active part in the band, the most used voices in Chicago now belonged to their two newest recruits: Scheff and [[Bill Champlin]], who had joined the band in 1981.
Because their sound was now so rooted in mid-1980s [[soft rock]] (ironically, mostly due to Cetera), Chicago again sanctioned the production duties of [[David Foster]] to create a familiar follow-up to ''Chicago 17''. After his third consecutive album with them, Chicago would attempt to broaden their sound with new producers on their next project. On ''Chicago 19'', radio would once again embrace ballads, this time from the pen of [[Diane Warren]].
The band decided on recording an updated high-tech remake of "[[25 or 6 to 4]]" (#48) but it failed to scale the charts, despite a slamming high-tech opening groove. Trombonist James Pankow is listed as a co-writer on the classic Lamm tune. Chicago then retreated safely back into ballad-mode, and the follow-ups "[[Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago song)|Will You Still Love Me?]]" (#3) and "[[If She Would Have Been Faithful...]]" (#17) became major hits. Newcomer Scheff was the singer on all three releases. The album also featured a brief, acapella horn riff, Pankow's "Free Flight." ''Chicago 18'', while still going gold, saw a noticeable drop-off in album sales following Cetera's departure (''17'' went platinum six times). The album did not fare well on the charts either, peaking at #35. Thus, Chicago emerged as a singles band having major hits, but with merely competent album sales from this point on.
==Track listing==
#"Niagara Falls" ([[Steve Kipner]]/[[Bobby Caldwell]]) – 3:43
#"Forever" ([[Robert Lamm]]/Bill Gable) – 5:17
#"[[If She Would Have Been Faithful...]]" (Steve Kipner/Randy Goodrum) – 3:51
#"[[25 or 6 to 4]]" (Robert Lamm/[[James Pankow]]) – 4:20
#* ''A new recording of the 1970 hit that originally appeared on [[Chicago (album)|Chicago]]''
#"[[Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago song)|Will You Still Love Me?]]" ([[David Foster]]/[[Tom Keane]]/Richard Baskin) – 5:43
#"Over and Over" (Robert Lamm/[[James Newton Howard]]/[[Steve Lukather]]) – 4:20
#"It's Alright" ([[Bill Champlin]]/David Foster) – 4:29
#"Free Flight" (James Pankow) – 0:25
#* ''An uncredited track''
#"Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now" ([[Jason Scheff]]/[[Buzz Feiten]]) – 4:25
#"I Believe" (Bill Champlin) – 4:20
#"One More Day" (James Pankow/Carmen Grillo) – 4:14
''Chicago 18'' (Full Moon/Warner Bros. 25509) reached '''#35''' in the US during a chart stay of 45 weeks. It did not chart in the UK.
==Personnel==
*[[Bill Champlin]] - [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]], vocals
*[[Robert Lamm]] - [[keyboards]], [[vocals]]
*[[Lee Loughnane]] - [[trumpet]], [[vocals]]
*[[James Pankow]] - [[trombone]]
*[[Walter Parazaider]] - [[woodwinds]]
*[[Jason Scheff]] - [[Bass (instrument)|bass]], vocals
*[[Danny Seraphine]] - [[drums]], percussion
===Additional Musicians===
*[[Michael Landau]] - [[guitar]]
*[[Buzz Feiten|Howard "Buzz" Feiten]] - [[guitar]]
*[[Tom Keane (musician)|Tom Keane]] - [[keyboards]], [[background vocals]]
*[[David Foster]] - [[guitar]], [[Bass guitar|bass]]
*[[Bo Tomlyn]] - [[keyboard programming|programming]]
*[[Rhett Lawrence]] - [[keyboard programming|programming]]
*[[Reverend Dave Boruff]] - [[keyboard programming|programming]]
*[[Michael Boddicker]] - [[keyboard programming|programming]]
*[[Steve Lukather]] - [[keyboard programming|programming]]
*[[John Joyce (conductor)|John Joyce]] - [[conductor (music)|conductor]]
*[[Gerald Vinci]] - [[concertmaster]]
* Betty Joyce, Felicia Parazaider, Laurie Parazaider, Jason Pasol, Myhanh Tran, Peter Wade, Alitzah Wiener, Melody Wright - [[choir|chorus]]
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