Songoftheday 12/20/12 - What can I do, pictures of you still make me cry...

Styx - "Don't Let It End"
from the album Kilroy Was Here (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the day is by the arena-rock group from Illinois, Styx, who released their high-concept album Kilroy Was Here in 1983. The album was based around the story of a future world governed by fascists set on repressing rock music, and the first single, the Broadway-sounding "Mr. Roboto", became their sixth top-10 pop single. They followed it up with "Don't Let it End", a midtempo song of a guy regretting leaving a romantic relationship, and the video tied it into the imprisonment of the main character, Kilroy...


Styx - Don't Let It End by jpdc11

"Don't Let It End" followed the former single into the top-10, their last time until 1991, after guitarist/second lead singer Tommy Shaw left the band. It was also a minor hit in both Great Britain and Germany. However since leader Dennis DeYoung (wrote wrote both songs) left the group, they haven't played it in concert since.

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...and here's the band during their big-budget tour supporting the album with the song live in 1983...

..finally, here's Marilyn McCoo singing the song on Solid Gold, simply because she's fabulous...

Up tomorrow: Leave him alone, he's got kids.