{"id":29509,"date":"2024-05-14T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/its-a-hard-habit-to-break-chicago-17-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:04:34","slug":"its-a-hard-habit-to-break-chicago-17-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/its-a-hard-habit-to-break-chicago-17-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a hard habit to break: ‘Chicago 17’ turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forty\u00a0years ago \u2014 May 14, 1984 \u2014 the band Chicago<\/strong> released what would become the bestselling album of their career, Chicago 17. <\/em>With help from both MTV and producer David Foster<\/strong>, it produced a string of memorable hits and won three Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

“Hard Habit to Break<\/a>,” “Stay the Night,<\/a>” “You’re the Inspiration<\/a>” and “Along Comes a Woman<\/a>” were all top-20 smashes, and MTV’s constant rotation of the videos for “Habit,” “Inspiration” and “Stay the Night” propelled the album to sales of more than\u00a06 million copies.<\/p>\n

Foster was first credited with reviving Chicago’s career in 1982, when he produced Chicago 16.<\/em> He brought in outside songwriters and musicians \u2014 a new idea for the veteran group \u2014 and leaned into the more soft-rock end of their sound. That approach worked: Chicago 16<\/em> became their first top-10 release since 1977 and spun off two major hits, the #1 smash “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” and “Love Me Tomorrow,” both of which Foster co-wrote.<\/p>\n

So when it came time for Chicago 17<\/em>, Foster returned and repeated the formula: Chicago 17<\/em> reached #4. While Chicago would subsequently switch producers, Foster remains proud of what he did for the band’s career.<\/p>\n

“I was a fan of Chicago’s before I produced them,” he told ABC Audio in 2023. “The first six albums … I went crazy when I heard this band. And then, like every group, singer, artist in the world, they had those down periods and they had really, really lost lost their way.”<\/p>\n

“And what I brought to them was, I reminded them of their greatness,” he added. “That’s the gift that I think I gave them.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n