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But I think that my brother Joseph did, for some reason, and let’s also remember that I was several months away from The Cars, much less The Clash, Ramones, et. I don’t think I bought You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish, just because of the title, and “Time For Me To Fly” for that matter. Having once again solidified their lineup with the success of You Get What You Play For, REO Speedwagon then put out 1978’s “wackily” titled You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish, which became a double-platinum best-seller, mostly on the radio saturation of the album’s two singles, the dread “Time For Me to Fly” and the awesome “Roll With The Changes.” So I’ve learned a lot from that song.Album: You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish We’re taught to shut up and deal with it if you’ve got a problem, and I was that way for a long.

I realized I had spent the greater part of my life fighting my feelings. … At the time, I just thought it was a love song, but it’s so much more than that to me.

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“I had no idea at the time how much that song would come to define me, not only as a professional songwriter and as a member of REO. As “Can’t Fight the Feeling” turns 35, Cronin has a different perspective on the song than he did back in 1984. And I’m thinking about maybe even doing some solo acoustic versions of some of the REO hits to kind of show what the songs sounded like when I first wrote them.”Ĥ. I’ve never made a solo album, but I’ve been in the studio working on solo albums a number of times over the years and have never gotten around to releasing them. “I’ve got demos of most of the REO Speedwagon songs and songs that were never released by REO Speedwagon. Cronin is also thinking about including some music, and possibly some new recordings, as a “companion piece” with the book. Next.’ I’d rather not release it than have someone else do it and put my name on it. If some publishing company says, ‘We’re gonna put the book out but we need to have somebody go in and rewrite it,’ I’ll just say, ‘Nope. It was so him … and I really want to be mine like that. That was my first rock biography that I read, and I thought it was great ’cause as I was reading the book, I literally heard Keith Richards’ accent. I read the Keith Richards book (“Life”) years ago. “It’s important to me that it’s my voice. Cronin adds that he plans to do the book entirely himself, without a co-writer or ghost writer. Once I pass Springsteen, ’cause I know what a perfectionist he is, I think I’ll call it a day, but I’m getting close.”Ģ. I’m on my seventh rewrite now, which may seem like a lot except that I was told Bruce Springsteen did nine rewrites for his book.

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“I didn’t plan on writing a book - it just kind of happened by accident, and then once I started, I kinda got into it and really started enjoying the process and have been at it ever since, basically any free moment that I have. Cronin, 67, says by phone that he’s been working on his autobiography since the end of 2016. Here are five things you should know about REO Speedwagon before you go.ġ.