Cornerstone
Album by Styx
Released	October 1979
Recorded	1979 at Pumpkin Studios, Oak Lawn, IL
Genre	Rock
Length	38 min 17 sec
Record label	A&M
Producer	Styx
Professional reviews
AMG	4/5	link
Styx Chronology
Pieces of Eight (1978)	Cornerstone (1979)	Paradise Theater (1981)

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Track listing

1. "Lights" (DeYoung, Shaw) - 4:38
2. "Why Me" (DeYoung) - 3:54
3. "Babe" (DeYoung) - 4:25
4. "Never Say Never" (Shaw) - 3:08
5. "Boat on the River" (Shaw) - 3:10
6. "Borrowed Time" (DeYoung, Shaw) - 4:58
7. "First Time" (DeYoung) - 4:24
8. "Eddie" (Young) - 4:15
9. "Love in the Midnight" (Shaw) - 5:25

Personnel

Styx

• Dennis DeYoung - keyboards, vocals
• Chuck Panozzo - bass, vocals
• John Panozzo - percussion, drums, vocals
• Tommy Shaw - Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, autoharp, vocals
• James Young - guitars, guitar synthesizer, autoharp, vocals

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• Steve Eisen - saxophone
• Arnie Roth - strings
• Ed Tossing - horn

Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ...

Production

• Producer: Styx
• Engineers: Rob Kingsland, Gary Loizzo
• Arrangers: Arnie Roth, Ed Tossing
• Design: Mick Haggerty
• Photography: Aaron Rapoport

Charts

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