Soon after, however, the band felt they were not ready yet, and postponed the idea for their next record. During the recording of its follow-up in 1989, Criss Oliva found a play and accompanying music written by O'Neill, which the band intended to use on their album. Savatage had thought about writing a rock opera after their successful collaboration with O'Neill in recording Hall of the Mountain King. It was never meant to be an autobiography and it is considered coincidental that the life of lead vocalist Jon Oliva mirrored that of the main character DT Jesus at the time. The concept of Streets is based on a book written by Paul O'Neill in 1979 as a Broadway play and stored in a drawer at O'Neill's home until guitarist Criss Oliva found it and suggested it be Savatage's next album.
Streets recounts the story behind DT Jesus and his rise to fame again and his second fall. He is a drug dealer as the story begins and just another lowlife on the streets of New York City. The story features a fallen rock star called DT Jesus (DT is short for either De-Tox or Down-Town), who has hit hard times. He resumed lead vocal duties exclusively on 2001's Poets and Madmen. It was also Jon Oliva's last album as lead vocalist until 1995's Dead Winter Dead and 1997's The Wake of Magellan, where he shared lead vocal duties with Zak Stevens (singing lead on two songs from each album). The album took almost a year to record, with pre-production beginning in October 1990. It was originally released in October 1991 on Atlantic Records.
Streets: A Rock Opera (often simply shortened to Streets) is the sixth studio album by the American heavy metal band Savatage and is a rock opera dealing with the rise and fall of the fictional musician DT Jesus. Narrated version of "Streets: A Rock Opera"
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