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"Mr. Roboto" is a song by American rock band Styx, released as the lead single from their eleventh studio album, Kilroy Was Here (1983). It was written by band member Dennis DeYoung . In Canada, it went to number one on the RPM national singles chart. [ 4 ]
The story's protagonist, Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (DeYoung), is a former rock star who has been imprisoned by MMM leader Dr. Everett Righteous (Young). [15] He escapes using a disguise (according to the album's song "Mr. Roboto") when he becomes aware that a young musician, Jonathan Chance (Shaw), is on a mission to bring rock music back.
Kilroy is seen scrawling "Kilroy is here" on a wall in Tennessee Williams's 1953 play Camino Real, which he revises to "was" before his final departure. Kilroy functions in the play as "a folk character...who here is a sort of Everyman." [38] The graffiti appears on the cover of the first edition published by New Directions.
Kilroy Was Here is a short film made to tie in with the Styx album of the same name. [1] [2] It was played at the beginning of each Styx show on their 1983 tour.It was written and directed by Brian Gibson of Still Crazy, What's Love Got to Do With It, The Josephine Baker Story and Poltergeist II fame.
Then Dennis morphs into the Kilroy as prisoner character and joins the members of Styx who play prisoners in the video performing the track and then the end shows Dennis as he appeared at the intro. The reprise of the track was more to do with not letting rock and roll die and had a teaser of the riff to "Mr. Roboto" before ending like a 50s ...
The park, featuring a manmade lake, opened for public swimming on the Fourth of July in 1966. It was named for Kilroy, the first soldier from the township who was killed in the Vietnam War, in May ...
Mr. Johnson, Gregory, and Frank's story, for instance, is not something that you would see on a typical episode of Abbott with Frank getting caught in the trap covered in piss-soaked pelts. We ...
Kilroy Was Here. Release date: February 22, 1983; Label: A&M Records; 3 45 — 3 6 67 US: Platinum; ... "Mr. Roboto" 3 3 — 8 — 40 — 29 90 1 CAN: Gold [3] US ...