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[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], [[Moral Guardians]] outlaw rock and roll. The first time the new law is enforced, a riot breaks out at a concert by the famous [[Fun with Acronyms|Robert Orin Charles Kilroy]] at the [[Shout-Out|Paradise Theatre]], someone dies, and Kilroy is [[Frame-Up|framed]] as a murderer. He is imprisoned, guarded by ''[[Robot Maid|Mr. Robotos]]'', mass-produced menial-labor robots. Kilroy breaks out, disguising himself in the body of a Roboto he has overpowered. Using a "rock code" graffiti, he leads a protegé, Jonathan Chance, to meet him in the Paradise Theater, now a museum to rock-and-roll depravity. And then [[Cut Short|it ends]].
Following on the success of the [[Concept Album]] ''Paradise Theater'' (and three multi-platinum albums before that), the ''Kilroy'' album and tour were far more ambitious, with a pre-concert mini-film that set up the story, scripted dialogue and choreography in concert, and specific roles for each of the band members. But instead of taking it to the next level, the band [[Jumping the Shark|jumped the shark]], breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. Tommy Shaw, on an episode of ''[[Behind
The story has many similarities to [[Frank Zappa]]'s ''Joe's Garage'': both feature robot-filled futures with moral overlords who hate rock-and-roll and throw the rocker protagonist in prison. Zappa's work is distinguished by having trickier time signatures, as well as much more [[Robosexual|gay sex with robots]]. You could almost mistake ''Joe's Garage'' for a parody of ''Kilroy Was Here'', but for the fact that ''Joe's'' came out '''four years earlier'''.
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