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GLEN BURTNIK - STYX
Burtnik debuted in the Broadway production of Beatlemania as Paul McCartney, alongside Marshall Crenshaw, who played John
Lennon. He wrote "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough"
for Patty
Smyth and for Don
Henley "Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man" and "Delicious
Surprise." He was a member of LaBamba and The Hubcaps led by New Jersey shore
favorite Richie 'LaBamba' Rosenberg before leaving to start his solo career in
1986. Glen Burtnik replaced Tommy Shaw on the Styx album Edge Of The Century in
1990. He rejoined Styx in 1999 for the Brave New World tour. In 2006, Dennis DeYoung asked him to be a part of his band
for selected shows to help promote his CD One Hundred Years From Now, which was released in
Canada in 2007 and in the USA in 2009. Burtnik performed with DeYoung some of
the material he wrote with Styx during the Edge of The Century album
including "Love Is The Ritual," "Edge of the Century" and some "Lost
Treasures" - songs written for Styx on Edge of the Century II which never
got recorded because Styx didn't have a recording contract at that time. In 2009
he joined The Orchestra (ELO) in Europe,
replacing the late Kelly Groucutt on bass.
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