Styx followed up their 1981 opus, "Paradise Theatre", with "Kilroy Was Here", in 1983. In the vision of singer-keyboard player Dennis DeYoung, there was a radically dark future where rock music had been banned by a group of moral zealots (sound familiar?).
The music video for "Mr. Roboto", the first single, included excerpts from the "Kilroy" mini-movie, with DeYoung in the title role as a musician framed for murder. DeYoung posted the mini-movie, included on the "Caught in The Act" concert DVD, to YouTube.
Two more singles, "Heavy Metal Poisoning" & the ballad, "Don't Let it End", were released. The mini-movie, it can be said, prepared DeYoung for a later run on Broadway.
Rating: A-.
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