James Young recounts the circumstances behind Dennis DeYoung's departure. (October 2023)
The Conversation
and when the time came in we had a
new record ready to go and we had offers
Galore to go out and perform live and
Dennis refused to leave the house he
said for a medical reason so I I said
tell you what you've worked on Broadway
and I said you have underst studies
there when you're not well one night
somebody else plays your part so I said
why don't you just come with us and
we'll do this and you don't have to do
all the shows and he said I don't want
you to do that and I said well we're
going with you or without
you and uh I think he thought we would
fail and I knew we would succeed and we
did succeed and a year later he sued Us
in court over the use of the
name um we settled out of court on the
whole thing and uh have gone on without
him