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Styx | Artist Essentials
First released: 1973 (year verified)
Original 1973 Wooden Nickel studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The piano-led melody grows steadily through the added harmonies and heavier closing passages.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1973 (year verified)
The artist catalog places the original studio recording on Styx II in 1973. Its retained 1975 hit association and later rerecordings do not replace the first-release year.
Recording: Original 1973 Wooden Nickel studio recording
Credit: Styx
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: Styx II
Original album association; the supported year is not an exact worldwide release day.
Styx - official original studio album catalog
The official original Styx II section supplies its 1973 release and studio tracklist. Other albums, later rerecordings, digital-store availability and day-level territorial assumptions are outside this source scope. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
In the yearly lists
These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The actual 1975 annual hit is the original Wooden Nickel recording already released on Styx II in 1973. Later rerecordings cannot identify that original hit cycle.
Styx - official original studio album catalog
The official original Styx II section supplies its 1973 release and studio tracklist. Other albums, later rerecordings, digital-store availability and day-level territorial assumptions are outside this source scope. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Styx - Universal Music Enterprises original album history
A release supplied by Universal Music Enterprises, not independent press commentary. It explicitly gives original A&M album years and names their studio selections, distinguishing the 1984 live album and subsequent 1990 studio return from the 2015 vinyl box publication. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Styx
Styx formed in Chicago around Dennis DeYoung and brothers Chuck and John Panozzo, making its record debut in 1972. Early albums drew on British progressive rock before the band developed a more accessible pop direction. Tommy Shaw joined for Crystal Ball, and albums including The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight and Paradise Theatre established its combination of guitar, keyboards and multiple singing voices.
Artist background sources
Styx - Universal Music Japan biography
Chicago roots, original instrumental roles, early progressive-rock direction, Tommy Shaw transition and major 1970s/1980s albums. Japanese-language history read; later lineup information dated 2016 is not presented as current. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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