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In a 2011 chat with Ultimate Classic Rock, keyboardist Neal Doughty recalled that REO Speedwagon's greatest hit almost wasn’t. “Kevin [Cronin] brought that song in,” Doughty remembers. “He’d written it on piano, and he started playing it for us with just him and piano. We didn’t really like it – we thought that’s too soft for us. But then Gary [Richrath] just picked up his guitar and started adding his part to it, and we went, ‘Oh, this must be one of those things they call a power ballad.’ I’m not even sure we’d heard such a thing before.” It was a good move, because the 'Hi Infidelity' album would collar the top spot on the album chart for 15 weeks and has sold more than 10 million copies.