Songoftheday 10/17/13 - I guess I thought you'd be here forever, another illusion I chose to create...

Chicago - "Hard Habit To Break"
from the album Chicago 17 (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's Song of the Day is by the veteran jazz-rock back Chicago, who started the summer of 1984 with a new album and a top-20 pop hit with "Stay The Night". For their follow-up they went to their David-Foster-era wheelhouse with the ballad "Hard Habit To Break". Sung by co-leads Peter Cetera and Bill Champlin, and written by Australian pop writing guru Steve Kipner with John Parker, the semi-power-ballad brought the band back to the mainstream...

"Hard Habit To Break" went to the top-5 on both the pop and adult-contemporary (easy listening) chart in Billboard in October of 1984, while also becoming the last top-10 single in Britain for the band so far (#8). As opposed to the more saccharine "You're The Inspiration", the famous band horn section at least has more to do here.

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...and here's Chicago (though Cetera-less) in 1993...

Up tomorrow: The 'gloved one''s family's in agony.