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* CreatorKiller: The album sold well and generated a hit single with "Mr. Roboto", but its recording and promotion would be the end of Music/{{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 ConceptAlbum 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 RockOpera, not only disappointed fans who came simply for the music, but only further alienated Shaw, who had neither the talent nor the taste for acting and was intensely frustrated by it, finally snapping and [[RockersSmashGuitars 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 [[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/styx-plays-mr-roboto-live-in-its-entirety-for-the-first-time-in-35-years thirty-five years]] before the band (now led by Shaw and Young) finally gave in to fan requests and played "Mr. Roboto" live again [[https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/touring/8466381/former-styx-singer-dennis-deyoung-says-decision-to-play-mr-roboto (which [=DeYoung=] praised]]).
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* CreatorKiller: The album sold well and generated a hit single with "Mr. Roboto", but its recording and promotion would be the end of Music/{{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 ConceptAlbum 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 RockOpera, not only disappointed fans who came simply for the music, music[[note]]Each show opened with a ten-minute mini-movie setting up the plot, followed by ''another'' ten minutes of dialogue before the first song[[/note]], but only further alienated Shaw, who had neither the talent nor the taste for acting and was intensely frustrated by it, finally snapping and [[RockersSmashGuitars 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 [[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/styx-plays-mr-roboto-live-in-its-entirety-for-the-first-time-in-35-years thirty-five years]] before the band (now led by Shaw and Young) finally gave in to fan requests and played "Mr. Roboto" live again [[https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/touring/8466381/former-styx-singer-dennis-deyoung-says-decision-to-play-mr-roboto (which [=DeYoung=] praised]]).
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* CreatorKiller: For Dennis [=DeYoung=], who was ousted from the band shortly after.
* Creator/StanWinston: Designed the Roboto masks.
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* CreatorKiller: For The album sold well and generated a hit single with "Mr. Roboto", but its recording and promotion would be the end of Music/{{Styx}}. Guitarists Tommy Shaw and James "JY" Young were growing increasingly disgruntled with Dennis [=DeYoung=], [=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 ConceptAlbum 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 RockOpera, not only disappointed fans who came simply for the music, but only further alienated Shaw, who had neither the talent nor the taste for acting and was ousted from intensely frustrated by it, finally snapping and [[RockersSmashGuitars smashing his guitar]] during a show in Landover, Maryland. He quit the band shortly after.
* Creator/StanWinston: Designedthe Roboto masks.next day, and Styx spent the next seven years on hiatus. It would be [[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/styx-plays-mr-roboto-live-in-its-entirety-for-the-first-time-in-35-years thirty-five years]] before the band (now led by Shaw and Young) finally gave in to fan requests and played "Mr. Roboto" live again [[https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/touring/8466381/former-styx-singer-dennis-deyoung-says-decision-to-play-mr-roboto (which [=DeYoung=] praised]]).
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* Creator/StanWinston: Designed the Roboto masks.
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* CreatorBreakdown: The whole idea came about when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking#Accusations the band was wrongfully accused]] of having backwards, Satanic lyrics on ''Paradise Theater,'' inducing impressionable teens to worship the devil. [[note]] Yes, this was a widespread ConspiracyTheory and moral panic in TheEighties, and it's every bit as baseless and astonishingly stupid as it sounds! [[/note]] [=DeYoung=] was ''pissed'' at the accusation and the inability of artists to debunk the stupid idea, and the rest is ConceptAlbum history.
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* CreatorBreakdown: The whole idea came about when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking#Accusations the band was wrongfully accused]] of having backwards, Satanic lyrics on ''Paradise Theater,'' inducing impressionable teens to worship the devil. [[note]] Yes, this was a widespread ConspiracyTheory conspiracy theory and moral panic in TheEighties, and it's every bit as baseless and astonishingly stupid as it sounds! [[/note]] [=DeYoung=] was ''pissed'' at the accusation and the inability of artists to debunk the stupid idea, and the rest is ConceptAlbum history.
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* CreatorBreakdown: The whole idea came about when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking#Accusations the band was wrongfully accused accused]] of having backwards, Satanic lyrics on ''Paradise Theater,'' inducing impressionable teens to worship the devil. [[note]] Yes, this was a widespread ConspiracyTheory and MoralPanic moral panic in TheEighties, and it's every bit as baseless and astonishingly stupid as it sounds! [[/note]] [=DeYoung=] was ''pissed'' at the accusation and the inability of artists to debunk the stupid idea, and the rest is ConceptAlbum history.
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* CreatorBreakdown: 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]] Yes, this was a widespread ConspiracyTheory and MoralPanic in TheEighties, and it's every bit as baseless and astonishingly stupid as it sounds! [[/note]] [=DeYoung=] was ''pissed'' at the accusation and the inability of artists to debunk the stupid idea, and the rest is ConceptAlbum history.
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* CreatorBacklash: The album was Dennis [=DeYoung=]'s baby, and ''none'' of the other band members were able to get behind it.
* CreatorKiller For Dennis [=DeYoung=], who was ousted from the band shortly after.
* CreatorKiller For Dennis [=DeYoung=], who was ousted from the band shortly after.
