The power ballad shot the perennial underdogs to the top, but it also sparked unexpected backlash from their ’70s fan base.

"People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream" ...

In September, the band announced they would stop touring due to "irreconcilable differences" between frontman Kevin Cronin and bassist Bruce Hall Weston Rich/Billboard via Getty Images The REO ...

In September 2024, REO Speedwagon announced that the band would cease touring starting in January 2025 because of a conflict that arose between two of the group’s longest-tenured members—frontman ...

Kevin Cronin reflected on his recent reunion with his former REO Speedwagon bandmates and expressed his hopes for a more long-term reconciliation in the near future. “The ice has got to melt,” Cronin ...

The accident took place on Sunday, June 15, just one day after his band played a farewell show at the State Farm Center in Illinois Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

After five spectacular decades, REO Speedwagon, as we know it, came to an end on Las Vegas’ Venetian Theater stage in December. Two months earlier, the arena rock legends announced their retirement ...

No genre knows how to express emotions quite like the classic rock power ballad. Case in point: REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” A member of the band explained why he wrote it in the first ...

REO Speedwagon has announced an abrupt halt to touring, citing "irreconcilable differences." The disagreement apparently revolves around a delayed return to the stage for bassist Bruce Hall. Last ...

"People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream." ...

REO Speedwagon singer Terry Luttrell was injured after he crashed his car when he fell asleep behind the wheel — just hours after performing at the band’s farewell concert in Illinois. The vocalist ...

Singer Terry Luttrell, the former frontman of rock bands REO Speedwagon and Starcastle, is recovering from a car accident he got into after falling asleep behind the wheel. Luttrell, 78, was driving ...