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Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter
Peter Cetera’s voice and ballad-writing drove Chicago’s biggest singles run in the 1970s–mid‑1980s, including the No. 1 “If You Leave Me Now” and the 1982 comeback No. 1 “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” and h...
Chicago’s exits of founding figures—most notably Terry Kath’s death in 1978, Peter Cetera’s 1985 departure, and Danny Seraphine’s dismissal in 1990—helped push the band away from its early horn-led, j...
After Peter Cetera left Chicago in 1985, the band continued to score high-charting singles and albums, notably Chicago 17 — Cetera’s last album with the group — which produced multiple Top 20 hits and...
publicly framed ’s departure as an understandable desire to go solo and said the band “supported that desire,” while other members have, in interviews and retrospective pieces, described a mix of frus...
Chicago's sound and identity have repeatedly shifted in response to high-profile departures and outside interventions; the clearest sonic pivots are audible on early jazz‑rock records, the David Foste...
The band's pivot in the 1980s under producer David Foster deprioritized the horn-forward, extended compositions penned by Chicago's early members in favor of polished power ballads, and that shift is ...
Creative disagreements, changing commercial pressures, producer influence, and leadership frictions shaped multiple departures from Chicago across the late 1970s and 1980s: the death of lead guitarist...