Chicago: Feelin' Stronger Every Day

By Ben Joseph

Feelin' Stronger Every Day traces the founding, recording history, and musical impact of one of the world's most innovative and long-lasting rock bands, Chicago, the first group to graft a horn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550822454
• ISBN13: 9781550822458
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Quarry Pr
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A must have for the true Chicago fan!!

Over the past 25 years I have seen Chicago in Concert over 50 times. I simply love their music and I am truly amazed at the fact that they have been around for over 35 years.I bought this book because I thought it was going to be a history lesson on the band and it is but it is also so much more.Covering the band from the beginning with members Terry Kath and Robert Lamm to the days of Peter Cetera to the lastet members Tris Imboden adn Keith Howland.The book covers every album including Chicago 26 "live in Concert". I am most impressed and hope as the band continues another edition will come out.If you love Chicago Like I do, then you have to get this book it is as sweet as the music of the band.

The band that keeps on going...

Chicago has certainly been around for a long time, and as this book points out, they've gone through a lot of changes in the process. Unlike many other supergroups, Chicago has always chosen to stay out of the media and there really hasn't been a whole lot of press on this band. I was glad to finally see that someone made their story available in print. I was also unaware of some of the albums, especially the Japanese Live album and the Andre Kostelanetz album, which I understand is extremely hard to find.Although Chicago continues to make music, The original band is still my favorite. Reading the book brought back many fond memories of concerts and songs from my past, and it did, as the author says, "make me smile."

Sensational Book Without Sensationalism

This book offers a very complete history of Chicago. It divides the book into album related chapters that introduce the individual members as the band's musical foundation is laid, then gives the reader an inside look at the various array of musicians that have united to form one of the most enduring rock bands of all time. I applaud this book for respecting the privacy that is so elusive for today's public figures. I recommend this book to anyone curious about the band, but it is definitely not for the reader that only wants to "dish the dirt."

Best Rock Biography of the year

The definitive inside story of a band whose influence echoes from the 60s to the present, Chicago created some of the most memorable songs and beautiful harmonies from the 1960s to the present moment: "25 Or 6 To 4," " Colour My World," "Wishing You Were Here," Saturday In The Park." Now the story behind the songs has been told in this engrossing account of the group's personal and musical history. Ben Joseph traces each of the performers from their early musical roots to their first hit song together, tracing their stormy years of creative conflicts through their reunions and reconciliations. I've been a big fan for over twenty years, and I found lots of great information that I never knew about them! I had to go back and buy it for my mother for her birthday, who is a BIG Chicago fan. Ben Joseph is a meticulous, lucid and utterly welcome credit to his profession. Unaffectedly poised above the silly sensationalism, spin and wordiness other writers employ for whatever reasons, Joseph offers a lovely, descriptive and respectful visit with the minds and hearts of Chicago. Sharp and generous, though never starstruck, Ben Joseph is the consummate musician's biographer. Obviously, Chicago feel safe with Ben--an opportunity as unwasted by him as any words he employs. One soulful, irresistible thing about books of author's like Ben Joseph--and of Chicago--you experience it again and again, but it remains new.