Schoolboys in Disgrace

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Schoolboys in Disgrace
Studio album by The Kinks
Released 17 November 1975
Recorded 19 August 1975 – 24 September 1975 at Konk Studios, London
Genre Rock, rock and roll, hard rock
Length 36:26
Label RCA
Producer Ray Davies
The Kinks chronology

Soap Opera
(1975)		 Schoolboys in Disgrace
(1975)		 Sleepwalker
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Blender [2]
Robert Christgau C+[3]
Rolling Stone (mixed)[4]
Piero Scaruffi (5/10)[5]

Schoolboys in Disgrace or The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace is the fourteenth studio album by English rock group The Kinks, released in 1975.

According to the back cover liner notes,[6] the story which the album presents is as follows:

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 punishment 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 (released as Preservation Act 1 and Preservation Act 2).

The front cover was illustrated by Mickey Finn of T. Rex. It later appeared on NME's list of the '50 worst covers of all time'.[7]

In 1978 the Finnish band Kontra had a number one hit with the song "Jerry Cotton" which was a cover version of the song "Jack the Idiot Dunce."[8]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ray Davies. 
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Schooldays"   3:31
2. "Jack the Idiot Dunce"   3:19
3. "Education"   7:07
4. "The First Time We Fall in Love"   4:01
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "I'm in Disgrace"   3:21
2. "Headmaster"   4:03
3. "The Hard Way"   2:35
4. "The Last Assembly"   2:45
5. "No More Looking Back"   4:27
6. "Finale"   1:02

Personnel
  • John Beecham: trombone
  • Alan Holmes: saxophones
  • Nick Newell: tenor saxophone
  • Pamela Travis: background vocals
  • Debbie Doss: background vocals
  • Shirley Roden: background vocals
  • Written, Arranged and Produced by Raymond Douglas Davies
  • Engineered by Roger Wake

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace - Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Blender review
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "The Kinks". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  4. ↑ Nelson, Paul (11 March 1976). "The Kinks: Schoolboys in Disgrace". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow) (RS 208). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 2007-10-02. 
  5. ↑ Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "Kinks". pieroscaruffi.com. Retrieved 15 August 2013. 
  6. ↑ Schoolboys in Disgrace (back cover). The Kinks. RCA. 1975. RS1028. http://www.discogs.com/release/1468246.
  7. ↑ "The 50 worst album covers ever". NME (London: IPC Magazines). ISSN 0028-6362. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  8. ↑ Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (Tammi, 2005; toim. Jake Nyman)
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