hisroyalness2's video: STYX Show Me The Way live 96 Panozzo tribute flv

1996 Paradise Theater concert. DeYoung mentions tribute to the passing of their drummer John Panozzo. James Young and Tommy Shaw guitarists and vocals are still performing today as the band Styx. Dennis DeYoung performs solo in various vocal venues with orchestra and so on. What a great show band they have been over the years. "Show Me the Way" is the second single released from Edge of the Century by Styx. Lead vocalist/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung, a devout Roman Catholic, originally wrote the song for his son, Matthew, as a pseudo-hymn about the struggle to keep the faith in a "world so filled with hatred". Released in December 1990, the song was slowly scaling the charts in January 1991, just prior to the United States' entry into the Gulf War, and many radio DJs mixed the song with voice tracks of parents headed off to fight in the war. The single rose up the Billboard Hot 100 all the way to . The song also hit on the Adult Contemporary chart, remaining in the top 40 of that chart for an impressive 31 weeks. While that association undoubtedly buoyed the song's success and contributed to its lingering appeal[citation needed], in fact, the single had not yet peaked when the war officially ended, on February 28, 1991. The song was Styx's fourth and final top 5 single to date (and 8th top 10 single), and comes in at on the Billboard rankings of the top Hot 100 singles of 1991 In January 1981, Styx released Paradise Theatre, a concept album that became their biggest hit, reaching number one on the Billboard pop albums chart and yielding five singles, including the top ten hits "The Best of Times" by DeYoung ( ) and "Too Much Time on My Hands" by Shaw ( ). Paradise Theater became the band's fourth consecutive Multi-Platinum album. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_the_Way_%28Styx_song%29