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Dopuna: 20 Nov 2007 22:15
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
The album's somewhat rock-operatic story tells of a future where rock music is outlawed by a hyperconservative government and the "MMM, (the Majority for Musical Morality)". The story's protagonist, Kilroy, is a former rock star who has been imprisoned by MMM leader Dr. Righteous. He escapes using a disguise (according to the album's famous song, Mr. Roboto), when he becomes aware that a young musician, Jonathan Chance, is on a mission to bring rock music back. The MMM was a fictitious reference to the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) who had previously attacked Styx for "backmasking" the word "Satan" in the song "Snowblind" on 1981's Paradise Theatre.
T H E P A S T "Dr. Everett Righteous, founder and leader of the MMM (the Majority for Musical Morality) became influential in American politics through the use of his own cable/TV network. He spoke about the evils of Rock 'N Roll Music and how its permissive attitudes were responsible for the moral and economic decline of America. He was charismatic, entertaining, and above all, he understood the media. The MMM soon gained enough power to have Rock N Roll banned."
"Robert Orin Charles Kilroy was a world famous Rock N Roll star. As this new law was passed, Kilroy and his band were finishing a national tour. Their last performance at the Paradise Theater would serve as the test case. On the night of the concert, as Kilroy played to a packed house, the MMM marched in and stormed the stage. When it was over, a MMM protester was dead. Kilroy was convicted of the murder and sent to a prison ship with other Rock N Roll misfits."
T H E P R E S E N T "... is a future where Japanese manufactured robots, designed to work cheaply and endlessly, are the caretakers of society. Mr. Robotos are everywhere, serving as manual labor in jobs that were once held by humans."
"Dr. Righteous enforces his own morality by holding nightly rallies where crowds hurl Rock N Roll records and electric guitars into huge bonfires. Jonathan Chance, the rebel leader of an underground movement to bring back Rock N Roll, has made Kilroy the symbol of his cause. Meanwhile, Kilroy has spent a number of years in prison. With no hope of release, he is subjected to the humiliation of mind control via the MMM cable network. In an attempt to contact Kilroy, Jonathan jams the airwaves of the MMM network, replacing a mind control session with outlawed footage of a Kilroy concert. Inspired by Jonathan's message, Kilroy plots his escape. Late one night he makes a daring attempt to free himself by overpowering a Roboto guard. Disguised as a Roboto, Kilroy moves freely throughout the city leaving graffiti coded messages for Jonathan. Jonathan discovers the rock code which leads him to the old Paradise Theater, now the site of Dr. Righteous Museum of Rock Pathology. There he sees the last Kilroy concert mechanically depicted by Kilroy look alike robots as the violent end of Rock N Roll... and there he and Kilroy meet for the first time."
Dopuna: 11 Dec 2007 21:09
Pete Townshend - The Iron Man: A Musical
The Iron Man: A Musical, released in 1989, is composed and performed by Pete Townshend of The Who. It also stars Roger Daltrey, Deborah Conway, John Lee Hooker, and Nina Simone.
The story declares that the Iron Man arrives from seemingly nowhere, and provides a description of his appearance. In order to survive, he feeds off the local farmers' equipment. When the farmers discover this, they set a trap consisting of a covered pit on which is set a tractor as bait. A boy called Hogarth lures the Iron Man to the place. The plan succeeds, and the Iron Man is buried alive.
A few days later, the Iron Man digs himself free of the pit. In order to keep him out of the way, Hogarth takes charge and brings him to a scrap-heap where he sets about eating all the discarded metal. He promises to be no trouble, as long as no one troubles him.
Time passes, and the Iron Man is treated as merely another person. However, astronomers monitoring the sky discover something new to be frightened of; a massive "star spirit" shaped like a black dragon, who is moving out of his orbit to land on our Earth. The said Star Spirit crashes heavily on Australia, later to demand of humanity that they provide him with food.
Terrified, humans send their armies to destroy him; but he is unharmed. When the Iron Man hears of this, he disassembles himself and is transported to Australia, where he challenges the Star Spirit to a contest of strength. If the Iron Man can withstand the heat of burning petroleum for longer than the Star Spirit can withstand the heat of the Sun, the Star Spirit must obey the Iron Man's commands forever more. If the Iron Man melts or is afraid of melting before the Star Spirit undergoes or fears pain in the Sun, the Spirit has permission to devour the whole Earth.
They play this game three times over, and at the end the Star Spirit is so badly burned that he is no longer frightening. The Iron Man, by contrast, has only a deformed ear-lobe to show for his pains. The Star Spirit admits defeat.
When asked why he came to Earth in the first place, the Star Spirit replies that the sights and sounds of the many wars humanity fights with itself had excited him. He wished to take part in all this violence, and so had come. In his own life, he was a singer of the "music of the spheres"; the harmony of his kind that keeps the Cosmos in balance, in stable equilibrium.
The Iron Man orders the Star Spirit to fly singing around the Earth, just behind the sunset, so that at night all humanity is lulled to peace by his song. The beauty of his music distracts humanity from its egocentricism and from its tendency to fight, causing the first worldwide lasting peace.
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