History Music / KilroyWasHere

* GratuitousJapanese

Hoping that I'll see you there\\
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So if you'll give us a chance to remember the love we had once together\\
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-->--'''"Don't Let It End"'''

The story has many similarities to Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/JoesGarage'': both feature robot-filled futures with moral overlords who hate rock-and-roll and throw the rocker protagonist in prison. Zappa's work is distinguished by having trickier time signatures, as well as much more [[{{Robosexual}} gay sex with robots]]. You could almost mistake ''Joe's Garage'' for a parody of ''Kilroy Was Here'', but for the fact that ''Joe's'' came out '''four years earlier'''.

* YellowPeril: The slant-eyed, Japanese-built "Mr. Robotos" are an obvious racial caricature, and probably more than a little racist. At the time of the album's release, they were likely meant as a commentary on Japanese car-makers putting Americans out of work. In the accompanying minifilm, one of the prisoners in the eating area mocks a Roboto that his "mother's a Toyota."

BTW: It is not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII era BathroomStallGraffiti.

The storyline: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, MoralGuardians outlaw rock and roll. Enforcing the new law, a riot breaks out at a concert by the famous "Kilroy" at the [[ShoutOut Paradise Theatre]], someone dies, and Kilroy is [[FrameUp framed]] as a murderer. He is imprisoned, guarded by "Mr. Robotos", mass-produced [[RobotMaid menial-labor robots]]. Kilroy breaks out, disguising himself in the body of a Roboto he has overpowered. Using a "rock code" graffiti, he leads a protegé, Jonathan Chance, to meet him in the Paradise Theatre, now a museum to rock-and-roll depravity. And then [[CutShort it ends]].

* AbortedArc: Between the opening "Mr. Roboto" (in which Kilroy reveals himself to Jonathan), and "Don't Let It End (Reprise)" (in which Kilroy and Jonathan vow to revive rock and roll), ''nothing happens'': the other songs just describe the world of ''Kilroy'' from the point of view of the three main characters. Except for "Don't Let It End", a love ballad that has nothing to do with the story ''at all''.

# "Haven't We Met Here Before?" (4:06)

* QuestioningTitle: "Haven't We Met Here Before?"

Instead of taking their career to the next level, the band [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]], breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. The album's convoluted production is chronicled on an episode of ''Behind the Music''. The album was critically panned, only garnering 2 out of 5 stars from ''Magazine/RollingStone''. Commercially, it was nowhere near as successful as the band hoped, only earning one Platinum from the RIAA.

''Kilroy Was Here'' is the eleventh studio album recorded by American {{rock}} band by Music/{{Styx}}. It was released through Creator/AAndMRecords on February 22, 1983.

The RockOpera by Music/{{Styx}}, not the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII era BathroomStallGraffiti.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, MoralGuardians outlaw rock and roll. Enforcing the new law, a riot breaks out at a concert by the famous "Kilroy" at the [[ShoutOut Paradise Theatre]], someone dies, and Kilroy is [[FrameUp framed]] as a murderer. He is imprisoned, guarded by "Mr. Robotos", mass-produced [[RobotMaid menial-labor robots]]. Kilroy breaks out, disguising himself in the body of a Roboto he has overpowered. Using a "rock code" graffiti, he leads a protegé, Jonathan Chance, to meet him in the Paradise Theatre, now a museum to rock-and-roll depravity. And then [[CutShort it ends]].

Following on the success of the ConceptAlbum ''Paradise Theatre'' (and three multi-platinum albums before that), the ''Kilroy'' album and tour were far more ambitious, with a pre-concert mini-film that set up the story, scripted dialogue and choreography in concert, and specific roles for each of the band members. But instead of taking it to the next level, the band [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]], breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. The album's convoluted production is chronicled on an episode of ''Behind the Music''.

* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: A theocratic America emerges that outlaws rock and roll.

Following on the success of the ConceptAlbum ''Paradise Theatre'' (and three multi-platinum albums before that), the ''Kilroy'' album and tour were far more ambitious, with a pre-concert mini-film that set up the story, scripted dialogue and choreography in concert, and specific roles for each of the band members. But instead of taking it to the next level, the band [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]], breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. The album's convulted production is chronicled on an episode of ''Behind the Music''.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, MoralGuardians outlaw rock and roll. Enforcing the new law, a riot breaks out at a concert by the famous "Kilroy" at the [[ShoutOut Paradise Theatre]], someone dies, and Kilroy is [[FrameUp framed]] as a murderer. He is imprisoned, guarded by "Mr. Robotos", mass-produced [[RobotMaid menial-labor robots]]. Kilroy breaks out, disguising himself in the body of a Roboto he has overpowered. Using a "rock code" graffiti, he leads a protegé, Jonathan Chance, to meet him in the Paradise Theater, now a museum to rock-and-roll depravity. And then [[CutShort it ends]].

Following on the success of the ConceptAlbum ''Paradise Theater'' (and three multi-platinum albums before that), the ''Kilroy'' album and tour were far more ambitious, with a pre-concert mini-film that set up the story, scripted dialogue and choreography in concert, and specific roles for each of the band members. But instead of taking it to the next level, the band [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]], breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. The album's convulted production is chronicled on an episode of ''Behind the Music''.

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