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1983) The song's video, directed by Brian Gibson, depicts Jonathan Chance (played by guitarist Tommy Shaw) walking in Rock Museum to meet Kilroy and a robot approaches. After this, it morphs into five robots moving and dancing. Shortly thereafter, the robots transform into the members of Styx and including a clean-shaven Dennis DeYoung (he shaved his trademark moustache off at the conclusion of the Paradise Theater tour in 1982 and has remained clean-shaven to this day). The video then alternates between the band playing the song on a stage and scenes from the Kilroy Was Here backdrop film. Then, the members of Styx morph back into the robots and DeYoung confronting the robots before collapsing after screaming in the ear of one of the robots. Then DeYoung awakens to see he is being experimented on and runs off. Then, we cut back to the ending of the first scene of the video and Jonathan Chance climbs on to the stage and before the robot reveals his mask to be Kilroy, another shot of the robot with lights on was used to end the clip.

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bar circuit from 1963 until 1969, when Nardini left the group and the Panozzos and DeYoung entered Chicago State University. There they met John Curulewski, with whom they formed TW4. James Young joined a year later, and they changed their name to Styx (after the river that flows through Hades in Greek mythology).

After incessant touring, their national break came in 1975 with the #6 single "Lady," featuring the blaring vocal triads that are a Styx trademark. From 1977 until their breakup in 1984, every one of their releases sold platinum or better: The Grand Illusion (#6, 1977, 3 million sold), Pieces of Eight (#6, 1978, 3 million sold), Cornerstone (#2, 1979, 2 million sold), Paradise Theatre, and Kilroy Was Here (#3, 1983, 1 million sold). Their concerts were invariably sold out. Their hit singles included "Come Sail Away" (#8, 1977); "Fooling Yourself (the Angry Young Man)" (#29) and "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" (#21), 1978; "Babe" (#1, 1979); and "The Best of Times" (#3) and "Too Much Time on My Hands" (#9), both 1981.

In 1983 the group toured 3,000-seat halls with a theatrical presentation of Kilroy Was Here, an anticensorship concept album that included the hit singles "Mr. Roboto" (#3) and "Don't Let It End" (#6). In 1984 the group members went their separate ways for a while. DeYoung and Shaw, who had written most of Styx's music, each embarked on initially auspicious solo careers. DeYoung's Desert Moon (#29, 1984) featured the #10 title single, while Shaw's Girls With Guns (#50, 1984) had a #33 title track. Subsequent releases were not as successful, and in 1990 Shaw joined Ted Nugent's Damn Yankees [see entry].

Four members of Styx, with newcomer Glen Burtnik, released the comeback Edge of the Century in the fall of 1990. Its "Show Me the Way" (#3, 1990) became something of a theme song during the Gulf War, and "Love at First Sight" was a Top 30 single later that next spring. In 1995 DeYoung played Pilate in the 1995 Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. He later completed his own musical based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Shaw returned to the band when he helped rerecord "Lady" for 1995's Greatest Hits; Styx's initial label, Wooden Nickel, had refused to license the original version for the A&M compilation. By 1990, drummer John Panozzo had developed a debilitating drinking problem. In 1996 Styx was forced to hire a temporary touring replacement, Todd Sucherman. In July of that year Panozzo died, the result of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and Sucherman became a permanent addition. The live Return to Paradise was the first-ever gold record for Styx's new label, CMC International. During the sessions for 1999's Brave New World, DeYoung developed an acute case of photosensitivity. Styx acrimoniously replaced him for the ensuing tour. Burtnik also returned, this time on bass, to replace Chuck Panozzo, who had also left the band.

From the Third EditionThe Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll