Live Aid rock star looks unrecognizable in new snaps 40 | Music News

One of the various artists who graced the stage at the star-studded Live Aid in 1985 is barely recognizable in current pictures, 4 many years after the long-lasting live performance.

On July 4, Kevin Cronin, the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for rock band REO Speedwagon, posted a photograph of himself wanting vastly totally different from his youthful, rock ‘n’ roll self, posing with his son Josh.

The 73-year-old musician has swapped his signature flowing blonde hair for a shorter bleach blonde type, and traded his clean-shaven look for gray stubble. In the Instagram post, Cronin donned glasses and wrapped his arm around his son Josh as they both grinned for the digital camera.

The rock star captioned the post with some thrilling information, writing, “Hi Friends, the hardest part of being a touring musician is the day we have to pack up and leave home.

“Although it has been half of our life collectively for the previous 36 years, saying goodbye to Lisa, understanding I will not be seeing her for over three weeks, never will get any much less heartbreaking.”

Cronin then revealed that his son will be joining his Brotherhood of Rock Tour with Styx and Don Felder as a new assistant tour manager.

Heaping praise on Josh, he added, “Josh has a degree in Music Industry from USC, took care of the business finish of Sir Please, and toured as the merch man with Sara and the Sundays.

“So for the rest of the summer tour, I will have a little bit of home out here with me. Josh grew up around touring, has travelled extensively, and is an all-around bright, sociable, hard-working lad. He is a welcome addition to the awesome KCB crew.”

He concluded the caption, “Pictured: Father and Son prepare to hit the road.”

Cronin tied the knot with his spouse Lisa Marie Wells on April 25, 1992, and collectively they’ve youngsters, Shea, Mylee, Liam, Tierney, Maelin, Kennilee, as properly as Josh and his twin brother Shane.

The music icon also has a son named Paris from his first marriage to Denise, which ended in divorce in 1987.

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REO Speedwagon shot to stardom in the Seventies and 80s, with a number of hits making it to the Billboard Top 100.

Keep On Loving You, launched in 1980, and Can’t Fight The Feeling, launched in 1984, are arguably REO Speedwagon’s hottest songs and had been penned by the star himself.

Despite having a staggering 22 members all through its almost six-decade profession, one of the band’s highlights was performing at 1985’s Live Aid, which is marking its fortieth anniversary this yr, at the John F. Kennedy Stadium.

Cronin lately made a cameo look in the third season of Netflix’s Ozark in 2020, main to a resurgence of the band’s songs on the charts.

Meanwhile, he continues to tour with his own group, the Kevin Cronin Band.

The vocalist lately expressed his remorse over lacking REO Speedwagon’s one-off reunion at a live performance in Champaign, Illinois, in June.

Former members and co-founders Neal Doughty and Alan Gratzer, joined by bassist Bruce Hall and early band contributors Terry Luttrell, Mike Murphy, and Steve Scorfina, had been in attendance.

Expressing his discontent in a detailed assertion, he declared, “I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this.

“After all I’ve accomplished to help construct the legacy of REO Speedwagon, I really feel I’ve earned and deserve to be included in any occasion honoring that legacy. Instead, I’ve been knowingly excluded.”