Wednesday, January 9, 2019

"Renegade" by Styx released 1979


Renegade by the rock group Styx was released January 9, 1979.  It was the third single to be released from their eighth studio album Pieces of Eight, which had been released the September before.  Renegade reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring.  Tommy Shaw sang the lead and James Young played lead guitar.

The song is a first-person narrative of an outlaw who is about to be executed by hanging for the crimes he has committed.


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