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  <default-description>Culled from the author's personal interviews with band members, record company executives, management, friends and fans, 'The Grand Delusion' is the first biography of the superstar rock group Styx.           Beginning with &quot;Lady&quot; in 1974, Styx delivered a string of hits including &quot;Come Sail Away&quot;, &quot;Fooling Yourself&quot;, &quot;Miss America&quot;, &quot;Renegade&quot;, &quot;Blue Collar Man&quot;, &quot;Babe&quot;, &quot;The Best Of Times&quot;, &quot;Too Much Time On My Hands&quot;, &quot;Don't Let It End&quot;,  &quot;Show Me The Way&quot; and &quot;Mr. Roboto&quot;. Styx has sold more than 35 million albums in a career that spans three decades. 'The Grand Delusion' tells the unauthorized story of one of the true superstar acts of the rock era.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the early history of the band Styx is forthrightly told, interesting, and more-or-less accurate,  the story of the band since 1998 and &quot;The Breakup&quot; is hopelessly muddled, opinionated, and incomplete. Anyone who wants the band's early history will be rewarded. Those seeking inside...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40623470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not much of a fan of music group biographies.<br/><br/>Typically, they tell the story in a way that is supposed to entice you to buy the group's entire back catalog. Not so in the case of this tome.<br/><br/>This is the sad story of how arrogance can bring down a band. Can't we all just get ...]]></body>
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