Biography

Like Styx and Queen, Kansas found fame in the 1970s with a mixture of prog-rock complexity, hard-rock riffs, and pop hooks. But the group's early albums--marked by Robby Steinhardt's violin work--were much closer to real progressive rock than to the "pomp-rock" of their counterparts.

Top Tracks

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• Bringing It Back

• Carry On Wayward Son

• Child Of Innocence

• Death Of Mother Nature Suite

• Diamonds And Pearls

• Don't Open Your Eyes

• Down The Road

• Dust In The Wind

• Eleanor Rigby

• Fight Fire With Fire

• Got To Rock On

• Hold On

• Icarus (borne On Wings Of Steel)

• Icarus--borne On The Wings Of Steel

• Icomudro: Hymn To The Atman

• In Your Eyes

• Journey From Mariabronn

• Lonely Street

• Lonely Wind

• Magnum Opus

• No Room For A Stranger

• On The Other Side

• Paradox

• People Of The South Wind

• Play The Game Tonight

• Point Of Know Return

• Questions Of My Childfood

• Questions Of My Childhood

• Song For America

• The Sky Is Falling

• The Wall

• What's On My Mind

Discography

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• There's Know Place Like Home

  Silk City Records / Star City Records / StarCity Recording Company

  2009

• Works in Progress

  Compendia Music Group

  2006

• Greatest Hits Live

  King Biscuit Entertainment

  2003

• Somewhere to Elsewhere

  Magna Carta

  2000

• King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents

  King Biscuit Entertainment

  1998

• Always Never the Same

  River North

  1998

• Freaks of Nature

  Intersound

  1995

• Box Set

  Legacy / Epic/Legacy

  1994

• Live at the Whisky

  Intersound

  1992

• In the Spirit of Things

  MCA

  1988

• Power

  MCA

  1986

• Drastic Measures

  Legacy / Epic/Legacy

  1983

• Vinyl Confessions

  Legacy / Sony Music Distribution

  1982

• Audio-Visions

  Legacy / Epic/Legacy

  1980

• Monolith

  Kirshner Records

  1979

• Two for the Show

  Kirshner Records

  1978