Pieces of Eight
is the eighth
studio album
by American
progressive rock band
released in
September 1978.
Like the band's
previous album,
The Grand Illusion
(1977),
it managed to
achieve triple
platinum certification,
thanks to the hit singles
"Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)"
and
"Renegade".
The band members
produced and recorded
the album
(like their previous three efforts)
at Paragon Studios
in Chicago
with recording engineer
Barry Mraz
and mixing engineer
Rob Kingsland.
"I'm O.K."
was recorded at
Paragon
and
St. James Cathedral.
This would be the last
Styx album
to be produced at
Paragon Studios.
The album's cover
was done by
Hipgnosis.
Dennis DeYoung
stated in the
1991 interview
with Redbeard
on the
In the Studio with Redbeard
episode that he
initially hated
the cover
but grew to like it
as he got older.
Background
The record is
considered by some
to be
Styx's
most obvious
concept album,
as well as the last
Styx album
with significant
progressive rock leanings.
The theme of the album,
as Dennis DeYoung
explained on
In the Studio with Redbeard
which devoted an
entire episode to
Pieces of Eight,
was about
"not giving up your dreams
just for the pursuit of money
and material possessions".
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