Your favorite play from 1983?

Despite the group’s internal struggles, Kilroy Was Here was a hit, selling a million copies and reaching No. 3 in the Billboard 200. But the tour in support of the album proved the final straw for Shaw, who was also battling with drugs and alcohol.

The live show featured a 10-minute film as the opening act, which then segued into live action in which DeYoung and Shaw acted out the concept’s finale live onstage each night, delivering scripted lines in costume as their characters. It was a task for which Shaw had neither any taste nor any particular ability. He finally snapped on stage at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD, smashing his guitar, throwing the pieces into the audience and storming off stage. At a hastily convened meeting the next day, Shaw sealed the band’s fate by announcing that he was quitting and shortly after that, the tour wrapped early.

Styx split with DeYoung permanently in 1999, and though the band – now led by Shaw and Young – still refuse to play the song live, DeYoung gleefully performs it in all its campy glory at his solo shows, which typically end with a fiery onstage Maserati crash.