Wheels Are Turnin’ by REO Speedwagon

Wheels Are Turnin', REO Speedwagon's 11th studio album, came out on Epic in 1984, and for a while it looked like it might stall. "I Do' Wanna Know" went out first and sputtered to #29, which Billboard's Kim Freeman called an oversight; Kevin Cronin, who wrote it and the follow-up, countered that not every single is meant to be a hit. Either way, sales dragged until the second single arrived. That was "Can't Fight This Feeling", a big, slow-swelling ballad that became the Champaign, Illinois band's second number one and the longer-running of the two, and suddenly the album was moving, all the way to No. 7 on the Billboard 200.

The five who had made Hi Infidelity, their best seller, are all here: Cronin singing and playing guitar and keyboards, Gary Richrath on guitar and producing, Neal Doughty on keyboards, Bruce Hall on bass and Alan Gratzer on drums. "One Lonely Night" and "Live Every Moment" kept the singles coming, and the vinyl came with a cut-out stroboscope for anyone who wanted to watch the wheels turn.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.