Return to Paradise (Styx album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Return to Paradise

| type = Live album

| artist = Styx

| cover = Styx - Return to Paradise.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 6, 1997

| recorded = September 21, 1996

| venue = Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 1:50:10

| label = CMC International

| producer = Dennis DeYoung

| prev_title = Edge of the Century

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Brave New World

| next_year = 1999

}}

Return to Paradise is the second live album by Styx, released in 1997, and their first album after signing with CMC International. It features songs from their successful reunion tour with Tommy Shaw, but without John Panozzo, who died in July 1996. It includes three new studio tracks, "On My Way," "Paradise," and "Dear John." Shaw wrote the latter as a tribute to Panozzo, while "Paradise" featured upon Dennis DeYoung's solo album and was newly recorded with the band.

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{AllMusic | class=album | id=return-to-paradise-mw0000019955 | title=Styx: Return to Paradise | first=Bret | last=Adams | accessdate=April 29, 2020}}

|rev2 = The Daily Vault

|rev2score = A− [http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=259 The Daily Vault album review by Christopher Thelen: Return to Paradise (1997)]

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev3score = {{Rating|1|5}} {{cite book| last = Brackett | first = Nathan |author2=Christian Hoard | title = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 2004 | location = New York City, New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/789 789] | isbn = 0-7432-0169-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac| url-access = registration | quote = rolling stone styx album guide. }}

}}