Over a backdrop of the album’s hardest-rocking arrangements, “Renegade” told the tale of a captured Old West outlaw who faces execution by hanging. We also work with our clients on bespoke commissions such as engagement. But it was the band’s youngest member, Tommy Shaw, who sang the album’s most popular cut. Pieces of Eight presents contemporary artist made jewellery and small objects. “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” leans especially hard on Emerson’s style of heady synths and organ wizardry, contrasting such complexity with a super-charged workingman’s anthem loaded with grappling pop hooks. Pieces of Eight Gallery showcases exclusive and limited collections of contemporary jewellery, vessels and small sculpture, crafted by more than 50. James Young takes the mic on the opening “Great White Hope,” a galloping and energetic prog-pop hybrid with flawless five-part vocal harmonies and an orchestra of synths that sound like they were played by the cloned offspring of Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson.
The cabin boy Jim, who narrates the tale, reflects many years later on his adventure. Ironically, Pieces of Eight went triple-platinum, making the band members wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. The Piece of Eight was made famous in pirate folklore when Robert Louis Stevenson published his famous novel, Treasure Island, featuring the villainous pirate Long John Silver and his sidekick parrot, which he named Captain Flint after his former pirate captain. According to frontman Dennis DeYoung, the concept behind Styx’s 1978 album Pieces of Eight is making one’s dreams a top priority over wealth and material possessions.
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