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Styx

Come Sail Away

Rock
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Space
  • Classic Rock
  • Acapella
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1977
  • 1977
  • 1978
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  • 1991
  • 1964

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“Come Sail Away” is a song by American progressive rock group Styx, featured on the band’s seventh album The Grand Illusion (1977). Upon its release as the lead single from the album, “Come Sail Away” charted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, and helped The Grand Illusion achieve multi-platinum sales in 1978. It is one of the biggest hits of Styx’ career. Musically, “Come Sail Away” combines a plaintive, ballad-like opening section (including piano and synthesizer interludes) with a bombastic, guitar-heavy second half. In the middle of the second half of the album version is a minute-long synthesizer instrumental. Styx member Dennis DeYoung revealed on In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of The Grand Illusion), that he was... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me

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