The band Chicago has earned nearly every honor given to a musician, and just last week the boys were honored with their own Star on the sidewalk of the Orpheum Theatre on Main Street near Beal Street in Memphis TN. Much like earning a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, the entire band was on hand in person for a live presentation, on the Beale Street side of the Orpheum Theatre.
Here are a few things about the band you may not know; the debut LP ‘Chicago Transit Authority’ was a double album (very rare for a debut album) and contained the radio hits “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” and “Beginnings.”
The song “25 or 6 to 4” found it’s song title when the writer Robert Lamm talk about being in a room above the Whiskey A Go Go on Sunset Boulevard, and the time to the song was written – 25 (or 26 to 4am)
Original member Terry Kath picked up a gun on January 23rd, 1978 during a stupid game of Russian roulette, a gun he thought wasn’t loaded and reportedly said “What do you think I’m going to do? Blow my brains out?” It was and unfortunately he died.
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