Pink World (album)

Pink World. Tony Carey et al.: Planet P Project (also name of earlier album, 1983).[1] Frankfurt: Hotline Studios, 1984. There is a related music video, also called Pink World.[2]

Progressive rock album/Rock opera, initially released as a double LP; see Wikipedia entry for complexities of production, release, and re-release; as of April 2023, here.[3]

Michael Conaway describes the work as a "concept album/rock opera sort of thing," appropriately released in 1984. It's the story of a boy named Artemis, who "acquires godlike powers, is used by the military as a weapon, causes the big nuclear holocaust we all spent the 80s waiting for, and then turns his back on his masters to save a chunk of humanity, who then come to reply on him as [...] the provider of all — food, home, and a shield against fallout. But it's an Orwellian kind of society where you don't dare express any dissatisfaction for fear of being expelled" from what the Wikipedia entry says is called "the Zone" — cf. the Soviet film STALKER][4] — "into the wasteland beyond the shield."

Cf. and contrast the Wall in Y. Zamiatin's We and the dystopian sealed world of Topeka in A BOY AND HIS DOG. For a powerful protector/tyrant boy, cf. and contrast the classic Twilight Zone episode, "It's a Good Life" (season 3, episode 8, 3 November 1961,[5] based on Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life," Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 (NYC: Ballantine, 1953).[6]

MichaelC, 27June04; RDE, finishing, 3Ap23