Released 25 August 1972 Release date 25 August 1972 Label RCA Victor | Artist The Kinks Producer Ray Davies Genre Rock music | |
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Recorded (studio) March - June 1972 at Morgan Studios, London;
(live) Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY, 2–3 March 1972 Length 69:26 (Original release)
74:28 (Remastered release) Everybody's in Showbiz
(1972) The Great Lost Kinks Album
(1973) Similar The Kinks albums, Rock music albums | ||
The kinks maximum consumption everybody s in show biz
Everybody's in Show-Biz is the tenth studio album released by English rock group The Kinks, released in 1972. A double album, the first disc features studio recordings, while the second disc documents a two-night Carnegie Hall stand.
Contents
Everybody's in Show-Biz is often seen by fans as a transition album for The Kinks, marking the change in Ray Davies' songwriting style toward more theatrical, campy and vaudevillian work, as evidenced by the rock-opera concept albums that followed it.
This album marks Davies' explorations of the trials of rock-star life and the monotony of touring, themes that would reappear in future releases like The Kinks Present A Soap Opera and the 1987 live album Live: The Road.
On 3 June 2016, a Legacy Edition was released, with disc 1 containing the original stereo album (studio and live tracks) and disc 2 containing bonus tracks including previously unreleased live tracks from the Carnegie Hall concerts, alternate mixes and studio outtakes. (Disc 2 tracks 7-10 were recorded on the other night of the two-night Carnegie Hall stand; Disc 2 track 14 is a never-released outtake; and Disc 2 tracks 1 and 12 are the same as those bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue.)
Track listing
All tracks written by Ray Davies, except as noted.
Personnel
Songs
1Here Comes Yet Another Day3:53
2Maximum Consumption4:06
3Unreal Reality3:34