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Chicago 18

Chicago 18 is the fifteenth studio album, eighteenth overall by the American rock band Chicago, released on September 29, 1986. This album is the first without original vocalist Peter Cetera, and the first to feature Jason Scheff on bass and vocals.

Reception
Chicago 18 reached gold status and #35 in the US during a chart stay of 45 weeks. It did not chart in the UK. ==Track listing==
Track listing
Notes: • A re-recorded version of "When Will the World Be Like Lovers?" (Robert Lamm/Tom Keane/David Foster) appears on Robert Lamm's 1995 solo album Life Is Good In My Neighborhood. The original recorded version from the Chicago 18 sessions also appears online. • "Free Flight", a 25-second unlisted instrumental composed by James Pankow, appears at the beginning of "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now". • David Boruff plays the saxophone solo on "Forever" instead of Walter Parazaider. == 18 Tour ==
18 Tour
Between October 1986 and November 1987, the band would embark on an over-100 show tour across North America and Japan. Before this tour, the band would fill in the previously vacant guitarist position with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band guitarist Dawayne Bailey, a position that would be filled until early 1995. == Personnel ==
Personnel
Chicago Bill Champlin – keyboards, vocals • Robert Lamm – keyboards, vocals • Lee Loughnane – trumpet • James Pankow – trombone, brass arrangements • Walter Parazaider – woodwinds • Jason Scheff – bass, vocals • Danny Seraphine – drums, drum programming • Vocal arrangements by Chicago, Bill Champlin, and David Foster Additional musicians David Foster – keyboards, additional arrangements, brass contributions • Tom Keane – keyboards, backing vocals • Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming • David Boruff – synthesizer programming, tenor saxophone on "Forever" • Rhett Lawrence – synthesizer programming • Bo Tomlyn – synthesizer programming • Michael Landau – guitars • Howard "Buzz" Feiten – guitars • Steve Lukather – guitars • Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements on "If She Would Have Been Faithful...", "Will You Still Love Me?", and "I Believe" • Jules Chaikin – string contractor • Gerald Vinci – concertmaster • Betty Joyce – kids choir contractor on "One More Day" • Jon Joyce – kids choir conductor on "One More Day" • Rebecca Clinger, Christopher Leach, Julie Leach, Myhanh Tran, Peter Wade, Jason Pasol, Brandon Roberts, Alitzah Wiener, Betty Joyce, Laurie Parazaider, Felicia Parazaider, Melody Wright and Bettina Bush – kids choir on "One More Day" • == Production ==
Production
• Produced by David Foster • Engineered and Mixed by Humberto Gatica • Recorded at Chartmaker Studios (Malibu, CA) and Lion Share Recording Studio (Los Angeles, CA), assisted by Claudio Ordenes and Ray Pyle. • Horn Sessions recorded at Skyline Recording Company (Malibu, CA), assisted by Britt Bacon and David Garfield. • Mixed at Lion Share Recording Studio, assisted by Laura Livingston. • Originally mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound (New York, NY). • CDD Pre-mastering by WCI Record Group • Art Direction – Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff • Design – Hugh Brown and Jeri McManus • Album Cover (Mosaic) – Maria Sarno • Photography – Hugh Brown • Stylist/Wardrobe – Kali Korn • Group Photography – Guy Webster ==Charts==
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