Domo Arigato Mr. Gayboto

Amacom Books will be released THE GRAND ILLUSION: Love, Lies, and My Life with Styx by Chuck Panozzo with Michele Skettino nationwide on May 15th, 2007.

A founding member of Styx and its iconic bass player, Chuck Panozzo remembers what it was like on the road to success, riding between local gigs in the back of a station wagon, and at the peak of his fame, playing before thousands of screaming female fans and torrents of panties, bras, and propositions. He also recalls the loneliness and gnawing fear of being found out and exposed as a gay man. He tells the story of his struggle to come to terms with himself while navigating a rock ‘n’ roll odyssey in THE GRAND ILLUSION: Love, Lies, and My Life with Styx.

This is no shock that a founding member of Styx is gay. Now we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that this was not the work of straight men.