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Three of Chicago’s founding members — Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane and James (Jimmy) Pankow — remain listed as members of the band and have performed with the group in recent years, while fellow origina...
Chicago was formed in February 1967 with seven core founding members: Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and (added in December 1967) Peter Cetera...
Robert Lamm has been a constant presence in Chicago from its founding in 1967 and is widely described as a founding member who has , continuing to perform with the group into the 2020s. Multiple profi...
Chicago began in 1967 and has kept touring every year since, but its personnel have shifted dramatically: three founders — Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow — remain active as of 2025 while ...
You asked why each original Chicago member left the band. Available reporting documents most high-profile departures and gives reasons for a few: Peter Cetera left in July 1985 to concentrate on a sol...
’s catalog of “biggest hits” grew from multiple founding members’ songwriting and singing: wrote and sang many uptempo anthems, supplied many of the band’s soft-rock ballad leads, handled gritty rock ...
Yes — and website updates about former members’ health and lineup changes since 2021: publicly disclosed an via the band’s channels in 2021, guitarist in late 2021 and the band updated its lineup page...
Robert Lamm is neither a scapegoat nor a villain in Chicago’s story; he is a central creative force whose fortunes within the band have waxed and waned — celebrated for writing many of the group’s sig...
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...
rose from a working-class upbringing to become the distinctive tenor voice and a chief songwriter for , later parlaying that profile into a commercially successful solo career with chart-topping adult...