Schoolboys in Disgrace

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Schoolboys in Disgrace

Studio album by The Kinks
Released	January 23, 1976
Recorded	August 1975 - September 1975
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	36:11
Label	Arista Records
Producer(s)	Ray Davies
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The Kinks chronology
Soap Opera (1975)	Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975)	Sleepwalker (1977)

Schoolboys in Disgrace or The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace is a 1975 album by the English rock group The Kinks.

According to back cover liner notes on Schoolboys in Disgrace, the story which the album presents is such:

"Once upon a time there was a naughty little schoolboy. He and his gang were always playing tricks on the teachers and bullying other children in the school. One day he got himself into very serious trouble with a naughty schoolgirl and he was sent to the Headmaster who decided to disgrace the naughty boy and his gang in front of the whole school.

After this punishent the boy turned into a hard and bitter character. Perhaps it was not the punishment that changed him but the fact that he realised people in authority would always be there to kick him down and the Establishment would always put him in his place. He knew that he could not change the past but he vowed that in the future he would always get what he wanted. The naughty little boy grew up... into Mr. Flash."

Mr. Flash was the name of the villain from The Kinks' rock opera Preservation: Acts 1 & 2.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies

"Schooldays" – 3:31
"Jack the Idiot Dunce" – 3:19
"Education" – 7:07
"The First Time We Fall in Love" – 4:01
"I'm in Disgrace" – 3:21
"Headmaster" – 4:03
"The Hard Way" – 2:35
"The Last Assembly" – 2:45
"No More Looking Back" – 4:27
"Finale" – 1:02

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 (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) - 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