High Time | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Styx |
Album: | Kilroy Was Here |
B-Side: | Double Life |
Released: | August 1983 (US)[1] |
Recorded: | 1982 |
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Length: | 4:28 |
Label: | A&M |
Producer: | Styx |
Prev Title: | Don't Let It End |
Prev Year: | 1983 |
Next Title: | Music Time |
Next Year: | 1984 |
"High Time" is the third and final single from the 1983 album, Kilroy Was Here, by Styx. It reached number 48 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2] In a 2009 interview, Dennis DeYoung revealed that "High Time" was released as the third single at the last minute by A&M Records. An expensive video for "Haven't We Been Here Before" was created but never was shown on MTV. Instead, Shaw wanted a live version of "Cold War" to be the third single. A&M Records finally released "High Time" as the single, with little promotion and no video. Its relative poor performance killed momentum on the "Kilroy" album.
Cash Box called it a "preachy condemnation of morality mongers" and a "strong defense of freedom of expression."[3]