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On 22 February 1983, my favourite album by the American rock band Styx, named after a famous World War II graffiti ‘Kilroy Was Here’, was released, the eleventh album by the iconic band.
This album, produced and arranged by the band and released by A&M Records, is a concept album and rock opera devised by Dennis DeYoung.
The story centres on Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, a rock singer who is captured and imprisoned by the ‘Majority for Musical Morality’ (MMM), led by Dr. Everett Righteous.
Throughout the plot, Kilroy manages to escape disguised as ‘Roboto’ and meets Jonathan Chance, a leader of an ‘underground’ rock movement and Kilroy's fervent supporter.
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The recording of the album took place at Pumpkin Studios in Illinois, under the supervision of Gary Loizzo, Will Rascati and Rob Kingsland. ‘Kilroy Was Here’ includes the famous single “Mr. Roboto”, which became a true anthem of the time, and the power ballad “Don't Let It End”.
The album reached number three on the Billboard chart in 1983 and represented the last studio work of original Styx material released by the ‘classic’ line-up of Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, James ‘JY’ Young, John Panozzo and Chuck Panozzo until 1990, when the band released ‘Edge of the Century’ with Glen Burtnik replacing Shaw. This album left a significant mark on rock history.
In 2022, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 50th on its list of the 50 greatest concept albums of all time.
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