Chicago (sometimes referred to as Chicago II) is the second studio album by Chicago-based American rock band Chicago. Like their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, this was a double album. It was their first album under the name Chicago (the band's prior name, Chicago Transit Authority, was changed due to a threatened lawsuit from the Chicago Transit Authority) and the first to use the now ubiquitous cursive Chicago logo on the cover
It wasn't a bad record to begin with, one on which the Chicago style was applied to seasonal standards. As ever, the group was a cooperative unit, with the three lead singers - Robert Lamm, Bill Champlin, and Jason Scheff - taking turns on the different songs, arranged by various bandmembers and always allowing for generous contributions by the horn players Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Walt Parazaider.
Though their debut album, released in the spring of 1969, was full of great songs, the singles failed to catch. It would be the band's second release, simply titled Chicago, that would make the public take notice. That album spawned three Top 10 hits. Chicago's fortunes kept rising throughout the '70s though, by the following decade, they had become a faint vision of their former selves artistically
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The song is about "excess in America". It’s basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about, Henley said in a 2002 interview with "60 Minutes. In 2003, Crowe revealed in "Conversations with Don Henley and Glenn Frey," which was part of the liner notes for the Eagles' compilation album "The Very Best Of," that "Hotel California" was originally going to be titled "Mexican Reggae.
| A | –Chicago | An Interview With The Artist Featuring Some Of Their Hit Records | 5:15 |
| B | –The Coasters | An Interview With The Artist Featuring Some Of Their Hit Records | 5:00 |
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