- Creator Backlash: The album was Dennis DeYoung's baby, and none of the other band members were able to get behind it.
- Creator Breakdown: The whole idea came about when the band was wrongfully accused
of having backwards, Satanic lyrics on Paradise Theater, inducing impressionable teens to worship the devil. note DeYoung was pissed at the accusation and the inability of artists to debunk the stupid idea, and the rest is Concept Album history. - Creator Killer: The album sold well and generated a hit single with "Mr. Roboto", but its recording and promotion would be the end of Styx. Guitarists Tommy Shaw and James "JY" Young were growing increasingly disgruntled with Dennis DeYoung's preference for a poppier sound over the hard-edged prog-tinged material that had made them stars in the late '70s and feared that another Concept Album after Paradise Theatre would pigeonhole the band. As such, they went along with DeYoung's project with a great deal of hesitation. Shaw hated "Mr. Roboto" especially, saying he'd rather quit Styx than sing about robots. The tour for the album, a full-blown musical Rock Opera, not only disappointed fans who came simply for the musicnote , but only further alienated Shaw, who had neither the talent nor the taste for acting and was intensely frustrated by it, finally snapping and smashing his guitar during a show in Landover, Maryland. He quit the band the next day, and Styx spent the next seven years on hiatus. It would be thirty-five years before the band (now led by Shaw and Young) finally gave in to fan requests and played "Mr. Roboto" live again (which DeYoung praised).
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