Everybody's in Show-Biz

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Everybody's in Show-Biz
Everybody's in Show-Biz cover
Studio album by The Kinks
Released August 25, 1972
Recorded March - June, 1972
Genre Rock and roll
Length 110:36
Label Velvel
Producer(s) Ray Davies
Professional reviews
The Kinks chronology
Muswell Hillbillies
(1971)		 Everybody's in Showbiz
(1972)		 The Great Lost Kinks Album
(1973)


Everybody's in Show-Biz is a 1972 double album released by the English rock group The Kinks. The album's first disc features studio recordings, while the second disc documents a two-night Carnegie Hall stand.

Everybody's in Show-Biz is often seen as a transition album for The Kinks, marking the change in Ray Davies' songwriting style towards more theatrical, campy and vaudevellian work, as evidenced by the rock-opera concept albums that followed it. It is also considered by most critics as the end of The Kinks' "golden age".

This album marks one of the first explorations of the trials of rock-star life and the monotony of touring by Ray Davies (these themes would reappear in future releases like The Kinks Present A Soap Opera, Think Visual and the 1987 live album Live: The Road). Davies brings his standard wit and lyrical sharpness to his observations about the excesses of rock stardom, but there is also a cloud of (alcohol soaked) tedium and sorrow over many of these songs, most easily evidenced in the touchingly retrospective "Sitting in my Hotel" and "Celluloid Heroes".

Besides "Celluloid Heroes", probably the album's best-known track, it contains the UK hit single "Supersonic Rocket Ship".

All songs by Ray Davies except as noted

Disc 1

  1. "Here Comes Yet Another Day" – 3:53
  2. "Maximum Consumption" – 4:04
  3. "Unreal Reality" – 3:32
  4. "Hot Potatoes" – 3:25
  5. "Sitting in my Hotel" – 3:20
  6. "Motorway" – 3:28
  7. "You Don't Know My Name" (Dave Davies) – 2:34
  8. "Supersonic Rocket Ship" – 3:29
  9. "Look a Little on the Sunny Side" – 2:47
  10. "Celluloid Heroes" – 6:19

Disc 2

  1. "Top of the Pops" – 4:33
  2. "Brainwashed" – 2:59
  3. "Mr. Wonderful" (L. Holofcener, G.D. Weiss, J.L. Bock) – :42
  4. "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues" – 4:00
  5. "Holiday" – 3:53
  6. "Muswell Hillbilly" – 3:10
  7. "Alcohol" – 5:19
  8. "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" (W.A. Attaway, I. Burgie) – 1:42
  9. "Skin and Bone" – 3:54
  10. "Baby Face" (Benny Davis, H. Akst) – 1:54
  11. "Lola" – 1:40

Bonus live tracks on 1998 CD reissue

  1. "Till the End of the Day" – 2:00
  2. "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina" – 3:04
The Kinks
Ray Davies – Dave Davies – Pete Quaife – Ian Gibbons – Mick Avory – Jim Rodford
John Gosling – John Dalton – Bob Henrit – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards
Discography
Albums: The Kinks (1964) - Kinda Kinks (1965) - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) - 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) - 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 (1986) - UK Jive (1989) - Phobia (1993)
Songs: "You Really Got Me" – "Waterloo Sunset" – "Sunny Afternoon" – "Lola" – "All Day and All of the Night" – "Celluloid Heroes"
Related: British Invasion - Argent


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