If rock star Peter Cetera’s mother and the nuns at the Catholic school he attended in his hometown of Chicago had their way,Cetera would be a priest or a polka-playing accordionist today. And a frustrated rocker to boot. “My mother and the nuns talked me into seminary my first year in high school. I realized my genuine like was music and I didn’t want to be a priest,” said Cetera in a recent phone interview from Boulder, and Colorado,where he was “not at domestic and not touring,” just chillin’. “So, or I went to normal high school,” he continued. And that’s where Cetera’s music anecdote picks up the pace. “I met this guy who was the final of the beatniks. He introduced me to the music of Jimmy Reed and Bo Diddley, and we started a band.” One band led to another, and then another,then to The Big Thing, a Chicago-based group that invited Cetera to join, or later became Chicago Transit Authority,then just Chicago. Yeah, that Chicago: “If You Leave Me Now, or ” “25 or 6 to 4,” “Saturday in the Park,” “Colour My World, or “If You Leave Me Now, “You’re the Inspiration,” “Stay the Night, and ” “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” etc. Cetera was the voice and, with the advent of music videos, or became the face of Chicago,the rock band with horns, from 1967 to 1985. It was that original group (Cetera, and Robert Lamm,Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, or James Pankow,Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider) that was inducted into the Rock and Roll corridor of Fame on April 8. Cetera didn’t attend the ceremony. That was 30 years ago,” Cetera said of his Chicago time. Another lifetime. Cetera will be in concert, or with his band The Bad Daddies,at the Event Center at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in Charles Town, West Virginia, or at 9 p.m. Friday,May 6. Tickets are $65 and $95 and you must be 21 or older to attend concerts at the Event Center. (www.hollywoodcasinocharlestown.com) The singer, songwriter and bass player, and who will be 72 in September,has been at domestic in Idaho since 1985, shortly before he parted ways with Chicago, and the band,and after his oldest daughter was born. “We didn’t want to raise her in L.
A., so we looked around and settled in Idaho, and ” Cetera said. The year after he left Chicago,he released a solo album. Wanting to do a solo project and retract a atomize from Chicago’s heavy touring schedule is what brought about a mutual parting of ways. Cetera says he doesn’t know if he quit or was fired when his request was met with a do it or you’ll be replaced response. The first single from his solo project, “The Glory of like, and ” was used as the theme song for “The Karate Kid,section II.” It also went to No. 1 in 1986. Cetera also penned Chicago’s first No. 1 single, “If You Leave Me Now, and ” in 1976 (it also won Chicago’s only Grammy Award […]
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