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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] It entered on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and US Cash Box Top 100 on February 12, 1983.
Despite the album's financial and chart success, after the Kilroy tour, the songs were not performed live by the band Styx (who fired DeYoung in 1999) in subsequent tours (with the exception of segments from "Mr. Roboto" and "Heavy Metal Poisoning" performed in the "Cyclo-medley"), until "Mr. Roboto" reappeared in full (in their encore) on May ...
Its lead single, "Mr. Roboto", became Styx's third chart-topper in Canada, was a No. 3 hit in the US, and was their biggest hit in Germany (No. 8). After a six-year break, Styx returned with Edge of the Century (1990), which reached No. 63 in the US with its single, " Show Me the Way ", becoming a top 3 hit in North America in early 1991.
Styx played a superb concert on Thursday night at the Stark County Fair. Hit songs, showmanship, singalongs, skilled musicianship. The whole package.
"The Best of Times" is a song by American rock band Styx, released as the first single from their tenth album Paradise Theatre. It reached No. 1 in Canada on the RPM national singles chart, their second chart-topper in that country, and No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in March and April 1981.
Styx guitarist James Young said that "it has sort of an underlying double meaning – music is what we love. It's obviously a love song between two people, but it's meant to carry over, and at the end in the reprise it is more blatant [that rock 'n' roll rather than romance is what the singer wants to keep alive]."
Not to dis the Who, of course, but “Mr. Roboto” feature these actual lines: “The time has come at last/To throw away this mask/Now everyone can see/My true identity!”
"A.D. 1928 / Rockin' the Paradise" is a song by American rock band Styx, released as the fourth single from their tenth album Paradise Theatre. The song peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Rock Chart. "A.D. 1928" is a short, piano-based song by Dennis DeYoung , set to the same melody as " The Best of Times ", that segues into "Rockin' the Paradise".