Saga (band)

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Saga, 2017
General information
origin	Toronto , Canada
Genre (s)	Neo-Prog
founding	1977
Website	sagagen.com
Founding members
Vocals , keyboards , bass	Michael Sadler (until 2007, since 2011)
guitar	Ian Crichton
Drums	Steve Negus (until 1986, 1992-2003, 2006, 2007)
Bass, keyboard, guitar	Jim Crichton
Keyboard	Peter Rochon (until 1978)
Current occupation
Vocals, keyboards, bass	Michael Sadler (until 2007, since 2011)
guitar	Ian Crichton
Drums	Mike Thorne (since 2012)
bass	Dusty Chesterfield (since 2018)
Keyboard, vocals, clarinet	Jim Gilmour (1980–1986, since 1992)
former members
Keyboard, vocals	Gregg Chadd (1978-1979)
Drums	Christian Simpson (2003-2005)
singing	Rob Moratti (2008-2011)
Drums	Brian Doerner (2005-2011)
Bass, keyboard, guitar	Jim Crichton (until 8/2018)
Guest musician
Drums	Curt Cress (studio 1987)
Keyboard	Tim Moore (Live 1988)
Drums	Trevor Murrell (Live 1988)
Drums	Graham Lear (Live 1988-1991)
Keyboard	Richard Baker (Live 1988)
guitar	Marcus Deml (Live 1995)
Drums	Glen Sobel (Studio 1997)
Drums	Chris Sutherland (Live 2007 + 2009)
Keyboard	Andreas Gundlach (Live 2011)
Keyboard	Thomas Elsenbruch (Live 2011)
Keyboard	Hans-Willi Carl (Live 2011)
Drums	Stefan Peschgens (Live 2011)

Saga (own spelling: SAGA ) is a Canadian rock band that is particularly successful in Germany and Puerto Rico . The group is one of the main representatives of Neo-Prog , their style is based on the progressive rock of the 1970s.

history

Roots and foundation

The band's roots go back to Toronto in the mid-1970s . Jim Crichton (born February 26, 1953) and Michael Sadler (born July 5, 1954) played in a progressive rock band called Truck, which Jim Crichton left after an offer from the band Fludd. There he met the drummer Steve Negus (born February 19, 1952) ( Fullerton Dam , Shelter and Bananas) and Saga's first keyboard player Peter Rochon. Due to the serious illness of co-founder Brian Pilling, Fludd broke up in the spring of 1977.

Crichton was already writing on his own pieces and thus laid the foundation for Saga. He asked Michael Sadler to sing some of these songs for him. About 20 pieces were written by Crichton and Sadler, including later hits like Humble Stance and How Long . They brought in Steve Negus , Peter Rochon, both from Fludd, and Jim's brother Ian Crichton (born August 3, 1956), who was playing in a Led Zeppelin cover band at the time. At the beginning of 1977 the band Pockets was formed, which recorded a demo tape with 25 tracks. The first public appearance took place on June 13, 1977 in the Tudors Tavern in Cambridge in front of about 40 spectators.

While working on the debut album, the band changed their name, as there was already an American band called Pockets . Jim Crichton was just in the process of writing the rough outline of the Chapters , a story originally planned to be eight chapters, spread over four albums. From this he was inspired for the name Saga . While looking for a way to record further demos, the band members met Paul Gross (now Metalworks Studios, Mississauga ), then co-owner of Phase One Studios in Toronto. Gross produced, financed, and recorded the first three albums for Saga. Saga's manager Clive Corcoran (Corcoran Busic Management, CBM) entered into negotiations with PolyGram Canada. Saga was signed and PolyGram released their debut album Saga in June 1978 .

Due to the weak Canadian dollar at the time and the relatively low prices for Canadian pressings, many albums came to Europe through European importers. In 1978, 10,000 copies of the Saga album came to Germany. The response was extraordinary, also in Sweden and the Netherlands . By Polydor Europe sold 35,000 more copies. Since PolyGram Canada put the main focus on releases like the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever in late 1978 , Saga was in competition with chart music in Canada and their music was only played on progressive-oriented radio stations.

During the recording of the second album Images at Twilight Peter Rochon left the band and was replaced by Greg Chadd in December 1978. He introduced the vocoder (See Them Smile) on this album . But the collaboration with Chadd did not last long either. He took his leave in August 1979 for personal reasons. In December 1979 Jim Gilmour (born February 25, 1958) got the seat on the keyboards.

The 1980s

The Einstein Tower on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam is the template for the cover of the album Silent Knight

Shortly before the release of the third album, Silent Knight , Saga went on a European tour for the first time as the opening act for Styx and was just as well received by the audience as the headliner. This successful tour was followed in January 1981 by a show in Puerto Rico in front of 15,000 spectators. More European dates follow, while in Canada the interest in Saga decreased. The band decided to record the next album in England with Rupert Hine as producer. They rented the Lavender Lodge in Maidenhead . Band managers Clive Corcoran and Carl Leighton-Pope opened a London office, and recordings for Worlds Apart began at Farmyard Studios in Buckinghamshire . In addition, the record label Bonair Records was founded, while Maze Records continued to take care of the releases in Canada.

Working with Rupert Hine brought about a significant change in the sound. The songs became more compact and crisp. Perhaps the clearest element of the new, fresh Saga sound was the electronic drums that Steve Negus had developed with Simmons, called Simmons Electronic Drums . After he was the first drummer to use the Moog drums in 1977 , Negus created a new sound again. After the release of the fourth studio album Worlds Apart , the success continued to grow. An invitation to Germany to record Rockpop in Concert (with Foreigner , Meat Loaf and Spliff ) in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle on December 19, 1981 in front of 15,000 spectators made Saga known to an even wider audience. The show was seen by around 27 million television viewers who, among other things, watched the world premiere of the drum duel A Brief Case between Steve Negus and Michael Sadler. Sadler played on an electronic drum kit that was built into a briefcase.

In 1982 Saga won various awards and received gold records in Canada and Germany. After the album was released in North America, an extensive US tour followed as the opening act for Pat Benatar , Billy Squier and Jethro Tull . In 1983 the gold record for Worlds Apart in the USA followed . Worlds Apart is to date the band's most commercially successful album. Saga's first live album, In Transit , was recorded in February 1982 in Munich and Copenhagen . The mobile digital 32-track recording was made by Dieter Dierks (Dierks Studios). The album is the first fully digital rock live album on CD. It was published by Polydor in August 1982 . On February 14, 1982, Saga became the first Canadian band to perform behind the Iron Curtain . The band played in Budapest in front of 10,000 fans in the new Sportcsarnok sports arena.

Rupert Hine produced another album with Saga at Farmyard Studios. Heads or Tales was released in 1983. The band chose Suhl (then GDR ) for the start of the Heads or Tales tour. The television of the GDR broadcast the entire concert and interviews as part of youth television. In November 1983, Saga played 17 shows in the United States as the opening act for Eddie Money . This was the last major tour in North America so far.

At the beginning of 1984, after extensive tours, the band moved to the Bahamas . There the next album Behavior was prepared in the Compass Point Studios , which was recorded from November in the Powerplay Studios near Zurich . Saga moved to BMG Ariola (in Europe) and Portrait (UK and USA). Behavior was released in July 1985, a radical change in sound and style. Saga was now based on the AOR , and the album was designed for the US market. In the summer of 1985 Saga played in front of 90,000 spectators at Rock am Ring . In November 1985 the band traveled to Dortmund to record TV for Peter's Pop Show - Extra in the Westfalenhalle . 1986 began with an extensive European tour from January to April. The last show on April 2, 1986 in Stockholm was the farewell show for Steve Negus and Jim Gilmour. In September the band announced the departure of the two musicians.

While Negus and Gilmour concentrated on the new Gilmour Negus Project (GNP) - the album was released in September 1989 - the remaining three band members worked on their first album as a trio. With Curt Cress ( Falco , Passport ) on drums, Wildest Dreams was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Olsen. The album was released in September 1987. Although the single Only Time Will Tell achieved a respectable success in Canada, especially through the rotation at MTV , the desired success failed to materialize. Saga first went on tour with guest musicians in 1988: Trevor Morell ( Wham! ) On drums and Tim Moore (Bros) on keyboards. #

During this time the friendship between Keith Olsen and Jim Crichton grew. Crichton founded his own Sound Image Studio in Van Nuys . Almost all of the following Saga albums have now been recorded there. The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes followed in 1989 as the next studio album, again with Cress on drums. Shortly after the release, the band hired drummer Graham Lear ( Santana ) and keyboardist Richard Baker ( Gino Vannelli , Santana) as guest musicians for the upcoming European tour in 1990.

The 1990s

In 1990 Saga ended business relations with manager Clive Corcoran. In 1992 there was a clarifying conversation with Jim Gilmour and Steve Negus, and the plans for a new joint Saga album arose. In 1992 Saga played again at Rock am Ring . The 1993 album The Security Of Illusion returned to earlier sounds with powerful rock songs and sensitive ballads. Not so, however, the next album Steel Umbrellas , released in 1994 , a commission for a television series called Cobra . The series was discontinued after a few broadcasts and the album flopped. Extensive tours in Europe followed in 1995 and 1996. Puerto Rico and Canada were also toured. The band was supported as a tour guitarist by the German guitarist Marcus Deml .

In 1995 the interactive CD Softworks (A retrospective of Saga - past, present, and beyond) and the concept album Generation 13 were released . The rock opera is based on the book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? by Neil Howe and William Strauss. The album takes on the topic of lost generation using the example of young Jeremy. In 1997 the band celebrated their twentieth anniversary. At the start of the tour in April, the studio album Pleasure & The Pain was released , including a cover of the song Taxman by George Harrison . Steve Negus could not record the album due to scheduling reasons and was represented by Glen Sobel . Michael Sadler and Jim Gilmour were supported vocally by Thomas Korge. The album was hardly liked by the fans.

This was followed by the album Phase One , actually a limited edition, which was sold at the merchandising stand, but has now been re-pressed and with a bonus track, a live version of You're Not Alone , has been released. It includes some demo recordings and previously unreleased versions of the 1979 album Images At Twilight . Saga switched to the record company SPV . The 20th Anniversary Tour was recorded and released in 1998 on the double live album Detours . In the next few years two more albums in the “original Saga sound” were released: 1999 Full Circle and 2001 House of Cards .

The turn of the millennium

Extensive European tours were undertaken between 1999 and 2001. During the House of Cards tour in 2001, Sadler suffered various breakdowns and almost fell into a coma - a result of his alcoholic illness. In May 2002 he therefore went into clinical treatment. His wife accompanied him to the only concert in Germany, in June 2002 on the Museum Square in Bonn on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the band. Then he returns to the clinic. The concert was recorded and released on DVD in December 2004 with the title All Areas - Live in Bonn . In August 2002, Saga played three shows in Canada and one show in Puerto Rico in October. Negus worked on the remasters of all of the Saga LPs in 2002 (except for Wildest Dreams , whose rights are still with Warner ). The band wrote their next studio album, Marathon , in the second half of the year , which was released in early 2003. It is the first Saga album that was not created as a joint effort. The data was sent to the other band members via the Internet. During the European tour in 2003, the first Saga DVD Silhouette was released in March . In June 2003, Steve Negus announced his exit from Saga. He announced the show in Hamilton, Ontario, on July 12, 2003, as his final appearance with the band.

Saga found a new drummer in August 2003 in Christian Simpson ( David Usher , Edwin, Micro Maureen). He was involved in the next album Network , which was created in the traditional way in the presence of the whole band and was released in September 2004. 2005 was a difficult year for Saga. The band split from longtime manager Michael Ellis after various differences, and in September it became clear that Christian Simpson was unable to continue playing the drums due to dystonia in his left arm after the summer tour. His successor Brian Doerner (Helix) made his debut in October 2005 during a live recording on Canadian television, followed a few days later by an appearance on the Sat.1 production Hitgiganten in Berlin . A short autumn tour was used to record the complete album Worlds Apart on DVD in Pratteln , Switzerland . It was released in April 2007 under the title Worlds Apart Revisited . In the meantime, Geoff Kent and Mike Filsinger took over the band management.

Shortly after Brian Doerner joined the band, the band began to write a new album. The band decided for the Canadian Metalworks Studios, whose manager Paul Gross was. The album Trust reached number 23 on the German album charts when it was released in April 2006. It was the first album on the new label InsideOut Music. After an extensive European tour in the summer of 2006, Brian Doerner was canceled for the December dates due to a back problem. Steve Negus stepped in at short notice. In 2007, in the year of the band's 30th anniversary, the band played a few festivals in Germany and Norway , followed by shows in Puerto Rico and Canada, and then embarked on an extensive European tour.

Brian Doerner suffered a heart attack after one of the summer shows in Canada and was then represented again by Steve Negus in Canada and by Chris Sutherland (Kim Mitchell Band) on tour in Europe. Already in January 2007 Sadler announced that he wanted to leave the band at the end of the year. Saga brought the new studio album 10.000 Days , a look back at the last 30 years of the band. Sadler last appeared on stage with Saga in Puerto Rico in December 2007. In January 2008 the first Saga biography was published in book form: So Good, So Far - Saga The Biography , written by Edwin Ammerlaan.

To find a new singer, Saga used the internet and asked for video applications. Rob Moratti (Final Frontier) from Toronto took the microphone. His first concert with Saga was on June 20, 2008 in Mount Forest, Ontario. The new studio album The Human Condition was Moratti's first CD with Saga. Brian Doerner had finished the recordings with the band, but could not go on tour in 2009 due to his heart disease and was again represented by Chris Sutherland.

The 2010s

In January 2011 Michael Sadler returned to the band. From May to November 2011 the group went on a world tour again and played several concerts with Marillion in Germany . After moving from Inside Out to Edel Records , a live album entitled Heads or Tales Live was released there in November 2011 , which was still recorded with Moratti. At the end of 2011, the band separated from the drummer Brian Doerner. In July 2012, his successor Mike Thorne performed for the first time with the band as part of the Night of the Prog festival on the Loreley . Her new album 20/20 was released on CD and vinyl in June . From November 2012 a tour followed, the concert in the Munich Muffathalle was recorded for another live DVD.

With the first saga Blu-ray Spin It Again - Live in Munich in their luggage, the band traveled back to Europe in October 2013 and played at the invitation of the German broadcasting station SWR on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart . In the spring of 2014, the band went on board the MSC Divina in Miami and played on the rock cruise Cruise to the Edge . This was followed by a tour with the English band Magnum . The 21st studio album Sagacity was released in June 2014.

In January 2017, Sadler announced that the band had mutually decided to split up after the planned tour in 2017 had ended. He also stated that there would be an appearance on the Cruise to the Edge cruise in February 2018. Initially, their last official concert was in October 2018 at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Further appearances on Cruise to the Edge followed . Two concerts took place in April 2019 in Montréal and Québec. Despite the announced band breakup, Saga played five concerts in Germany in the summer of 2019. Dusty Chesterfield was introduced on bass as a new band member. Further concerts have now been officially announced, mainly for Europe, until summer 2020.

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  Jim Gilmour

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  Ian Crichton

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  Mike Thorne

The Chapters

The story behind the Chapters came about when Jim Crichton read an article in a magazine in the late 1970s that reported that Albert Einstein's brain was being preserved and kept at the Smithsonian Institute for study . There was a lot of talk about nuclear wars and the Cold War at the time , and the Star Wars movie decade began. The story should be told in chapters and divided into four albums like a puzzle . Much has been interpreted and speculated over the years. Jim Crichton never revealed the full story behind the Chapters , however.

He spoke of the idea that extraterrestrials observe life on earth and have to determine a certain self-destruction of the earth's inhabitants. So they decide to bring someone to earth in order to put the earth and its people back on the right course. They quickly find out that the only person for this assignment is Einstein. The plan is to give him a body (seen on the cover of the first Saga album) that will enable him to come back to life and do what it takes to save the earth. In the first chapter, Einstein is an old man on the verge of madness, trying in vain to see meaning in his life. He paints pictures on the sidewalk of people and things that influenced his life. The rain that washes away the pictures represents Einstein's death.

Jim Crichton, Los Angeles 1995 (published on the interactive CD Softworks )

• Chapter 1: Images (Images at Twilight, 1979)
• Chapter 2: Don't Be Late (Silent Knight, 1980)
• Chapter 3: It's Time! (Images at Twilight, 1979)
• Chapter 4: Will It Be You? (Saga, 1978)
• Chapter 5: No Regrets (Worlds Apart, 1981)
• Chapter 6: Tired World (Saga, 1978)
• Chapter 7: Too Much to Lose (Silent Knight, 1980)
• Chapter 8: No Stranger (Worlds Apart, 1981)
• Chapter 9: Remember When (Full Circle, 1999)
• Chapter 10: Not This Way (Full Circle, 1999)
• Chapter 11: Ashes to Ashes (House of Cards, 2001)
• Chapter 12: You Know I Know (Marathon, 2003)
• Chapter 13: Uncle Albert's Eyes (Full Circle, 1999)
• Chapter 14: Streets of Gold (Marathon, 2003)
• Chapter 15: We'll Meet Again (House of Cards, 2001)
• Chapter 16: Worlds Apart (Marathon, 2003)

The idea of ​​a connection between Einstein and extraterrestrials was also discussed in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Uncanny Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	US	CA
1978	saga	-	-	-	-	-	First published: June 1978
1979	Images at Twilight	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 1979
1980	Silent Knight	-	-	-	-	CA42 (... weeks) CA	First published: November 1980
1981	Worlds Apart	DE9 gold (44 weeks)DE	-	-	US29 gold (36 weeks)US	CA22 (... weeks) CA	First published: October 1, 1981
1983	Heads or Tales	DE3 gold (24 weeks)DE	-	CH4 (6 weeks) CH	US92 (8 weeks) US	CA17 (... weeks) CA	First published: September 1, 1983
1985	Behavior	DE2 (16 weeks) DE	AT29 (2 weeks) AT	CH3 (11 weeks) CH	US87 (10 weeks) US	CA39 (... weeks) CA	First published: August 1985
1987	Wildest Dreams	DE18 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH17 (3 weeks) CH	-	CA77 (... weeks) CA	First published: October 1987
1989	The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes	-	-	-	-	-	First published: December 1989
1993	The Security of Illusion	DE46 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH38 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: January 27, 1993
1994	Steel umbrellas	DE65 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH39 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: May 2, 1994
1995	Generation 13	DE89 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH49 (1 week) CH	-	-	Concept album First published: June 26, 1995
1997	Pleasure and the pain	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 7, 1997
1998	Phase 1	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 22, 1998
1999	Full circle	DE44 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 3, 1999
2001	House of Cards	DE34 (4 weeks) DE	-	CH100 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: February 12, 2001
2003	marathon	DE40 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: February 5, 2003
2004	Network	DE78 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 30, 2004
2006	Trust	DE23 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 21, 2006
2007	10,000 days	DE78 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 19, 2007
2009	The human condition	DE91 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 27, 2009
2012	20/20	DE13 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: July 6, 2012
2014	Sagacity	DE17 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH32 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: June 27, 2014

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	US	CA
1982	In transit - live	DE3 gold (29 weeks)DE	-	-	-	-	First published: August 1982
1998	Detours - Live	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 17, 1998 (recording from 1997 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary)
2005	Chapters Live	-	-	-	-	-	First release: September 30, 2005 (recordings from 2003, concept double album)
2007	Worlds Apart Revisited	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First release: April 27, 2007 (live double CD + Worlds Apart completely live in Pratteln)
2009	Contact - Live In Munich	DE80 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: January 23, 2009 (recording of Michael Sadler's farewell concert (2007), double CD)
2011	Heads or Tales Live	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 27, 2011
2013	Spin It Again! Live in Munich	DE45 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 27, 2013
2016	Live in Hamburg	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 2, 2016
2018	So Good So Far - Live at Rock of Ages	DE56 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 28, 2018

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	US	CA
1986	Time's up	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
1991	The Works	DE18 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 30, 1991
1992	Wind Him Up - Best	-	-	-	-	-	First release: (recorded 1978-87, label: Zounds , all tracks digitally remastered)
1993	All the best	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
1994	The very best of	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
	Defining moments	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
1995	Wildest Dreams	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
1997	How do I look	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
2006	Remember When - The Very Best of Saga	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:
2017	The Polydor Legacy	-	-	-	-	-	Initial release:

Singles

Chart placements

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	US	CA
1979	It's Time Images at Twilight	-	-	CA84 (7 weeks) CA
1981	Wind Him Up Worlds Apart	DE30 (20 weeks) DE	US64 (8 weeks) US	CA22 (6 weeks) CA
	On the Loose Worlds Apart	DE33 (4 weeks) DE	US26 (18 weeks) US	-
1983	The Flyer Heads or Tales	DE19 (4 weeks) DE	US79 (3 weeks) US	-
1984	Scratching the Surface Heads or Tales	-	-	CA47 (6 weeks) CA
1985	What Do I Know Behavior	DE65 (3 weeks) DE	-	CA57 (14 weeks) CA
1987	Only Time Will Tell Wildest Dreams	-	-	CA93 (5 weeks) CA

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	US	CA
2005	Wind Him Up	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	( Villa & Gant vs. Saga)

Video albums

• 2003: Silhouette (published in Germany & Switzerland)
• 2003: Marathon World Tour 2003 (only published in Canada)
• 2004: All Areas - Live in Bonn (released in Switzerland & Germany)
• 2007: Worlds Apart Revisited (DDVD Live in Pratteln 2005 + the complete album Worlds Apart live)
• 2009: Contact - Live in Munich (DDVD Live in Munich December 5, 2007)
• 2013: Spin It Again - Live in Munich

Others

• 1995: Softworks - An Interactive Anthology ( Adventure game on the band's history)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1982: for the album Worlds Apart 1983: for the album Silent Knight 1984: for the album Head or Tales Platinum record  Canada 1983: for the album In Transit

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold3	-	750,000	musikindustrie.de
Canada (MC)	3 × gold3	platinum1	250,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	gold1	-	500,000	riaa.com
All in all	7 × gold7th	platinum1

Web links

• Website of the band
• Saga at laut.de
• Saga at Discogs (English)
• Concert film 2015 and interview with singer Michael Sadler

swell

1. ^ Rockpop in Concert
2. ↑ Official Saga Facebook page: SAGA 4.0 - The Final Chapter. January 19, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind Anniversary at nytimes.com, added Sept. 4, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart placements: DE1 DE2 AT CH US1 US2 CA