[Revel]

I really don’t know the actual members well enough to recognize them. I do know that “Hold On” was written by one of the members to his wife during a time of spiritual transformation. He was telling is wife to hold on through the changes.

I did see part of the band perform in 1985 at a special event. They were already experiencing changes at that point. They were playing at a Major Christian Conference. They started playing “Dust in the wind” and hundred’s of conference goers starting singing with them flawlessly in unison. The lead singer suddenly stopped and started talking about how they used to write hopeless songs, but were now into writing spiritual songs.

Everyone in the Audience suddenly had one of those “guilty” moments.

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Kerry Livgren is the blonde long haired guy who wrote many of their hits including Hold On, Carry On, and Dust in the wind. He is very much Christian so much so he and another member also a Christian left the band. He makes a cameo in the video Rachel Rachel did only he's about 15 years older and hair is a tad bit shorter. His music evolved in his later years with Kansas as did his spiritual growth. After he left the group he formed his own label and became more focused on Christian Rock & Gospel music. The other member who left IIRC entered the ministry.

On a side note getting back to Bobby Goldsboro. At one time he worked playing guitar for Roy Orbison in the early 60's. Who'd a thunk it LOL.