I don’t want to lament what won’t be but to celebrate what was and what will be, and so I’m just fortunate all the way around ...

One of the most successful rock bands of all time began with some bad winter weather in Upstate New York.

It was singer Kevin Cronin’s melodic sensibility that transformed REO Speedwagon into one of America’s biggest bands in the 1980s. And it was Cronin’s songs that gave the band their two US No.1 hits – ...