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Styx

Entry updated 3 June 2024. Tagged: Music.

US rock band formed in Chicago in 1972, who achieved considerable success in the 1970s and early 1980s. Their sf concept album Kilroy Was Here (1983) introduced a more synth-led sound, and produced two hit singles in "Mr. Roboto" and "Don't Let It End"; but the songs are weak and overly theatrical. The story was a response to Christian anti-rock activists: The MMM (Majority for Musical Morality) has outlawed rock music, but the imprisoned singer Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (or R.O.C.K.) escapes and joins a mission to bring it back to the public. The line "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto" ("Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto") briefly became a popular catchphrase. The initial tour to promote the album also included a ten-minute short film of the same name, written and directed by Brian Gibson, in which the band members acted out the parts of the story's characters. After several line-up changes, Styx returned to sf with The Mission (2017), about an expedition to Mars in the year 2033. [CWa]

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