Everybody's in show biz
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| Studio album by The Kinks | ||||
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Publication |
August 25, 1972 |
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| Label (s) | RCA Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10/11 |
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running time |
36 min 51 s / 33 min 46 s |
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| occupation |
as well as a guest musician
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Ray Davies |
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Everybody's in Show-Biz is the tenth studio album by the British rock group The Kinks . It was recorded between March and June 1972 and released in Great Britain on August 25, 1972. The first two pages of the double LP contain studio recordings, the live recordings of pages three and four were recorded at two concerts on March 2 and 3, 1972 at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan , New York City - with the band Lindisfarne as opening act . All of the songs on the studio LP are by Ray Davies, with the exception of You Don't Know My Name , a composition by Dave Davies .
Everybody's in Show-Biz today is often viewed as a transition album by the Kinks. Ray Davies, who still wanted to be a theater director during his student days at Hornsey College of Art in London, led the kinks away from the rock and beat of the 1960s and into a less modern world of sound, a theme inspired by theater, vaudeville and music of the 1920s to which he should remain loyal for the next few years. In texts full of irony and lyrical sharpness, he tells of the consequences of life as a rock star, of the alcohol-laden monotony of the tours and the excesses associated with them.
With their live performances, the Kinks now offered a stage spectacle that was unusual for a rock band, the songs were staged with numerous guest musicians in the style of a music hall performance.
The album's best-known title, Celluloid Heroes , describes the inhumane way in which the Hollywood industry builds up its stars and breaks them down with fame while their film image lives on unchanged.
This time the release was rated only cautiously positive by the critics' guild, who are usually well-disposed towards the Kinks, and the sales figures on both sides of the Atlantic were bad, only the single Supersonic Rocket Ship , released on May 5, 1972, reached number 16 in the UK charts.
Track list
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page 1
Page 2
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Page 3
page 4
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Studio albums: Kinks (1964) | Kinda Kinks (1965) | The Kink Controversy (1965) | Well Respected Kinks (1966) | Face to Face (1966) | Something Else by The Kinks (1967) | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) | Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) | Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) | Percy - Original Soundtrack (1971) | Muswell Hillbillies (1971) | Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972) | Preservation Act 1 (1973) | Preservation Act 2 (1974) | Soap Opera (1975) | Schoolboys in Disgrace (1976) | Sleepwalker (1977) | Misfits (1978) | Low Budget (1979) | Give the People What They Want (1981) | State of Confusion (1983) | Word of Mouth (1984) | Think Visual (1987) | UK Jive (1989) | Phobia (1993) |
Live albums: Live at Kelvin Hall (1967) | One for the Road (1980) | The Road (1988) To the Bone (British version, 1994) | To the Bone (US version) (1996) | BBC Sessions: 1964–1977 (2001)