The Kinks - Everybody's in Show-Biz ( 2xCD Legacy Edition 2016) @ 320

Members :

Ray Davies - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Resonator Guitar

Dave Davies - Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar, Banjo, Backing Vocals, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

John Dalton - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals

John Gosling - Keyboards

Mick Avory - Drums

Mike Cotton - Trumpet

John Beecham - Trombone, Tuba

Alan Holmes - Saxophone, Clarinet

Dave Rowberry - Organ

Review by Mark Barry (Sounds Good, Looks Good...)

In a new interview conducted with renowned writer David Fricke in 2016 - principal songwriter RAY DAVIES and heart of THE KINKS, explains things used to be easier. Back in their 60ts heyday, the famously caustic British band would tour the States for maybe three weeks – but in 1972 after a prolonged four-year absence from American stages – gigging lasted nearly three months. Five lads in their mid-20s grinding through day-after-day of "...anonymous hotels, fleeting acquaintances and desperate homesickness..." atop product demands (give us an album a year or else) and the usual daytime radio promotions from people pretending to be interested. But that touring strain see-sawing with up and down emotions, creative splurges and a triumphant March 1972 live-sets at New York's Carnegie Hall (Sides 3 and 4 of the original double-album) set up what many now feel is one of the band's truly great 70ts pieces - the 2LP "Everybody's In Show-Biz - Everybody's A Star" (actually shortened to just "Everybody's In Showbiz" for American copies). For sure, it was not greeted with genuflection at the time by everyone – well in show-biz – but time has been kinder to the difficult Seventies.

As legend would have it and with titles like "Sitting in My Hotel Room", "Motorway" and "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues" - the double album was to be a concept piece and film about life on the road for our Celluloid Heroes initially entitled "The Colossal Shirt". Named after an elaborately embroidered cowboy shirt Ray Davies wore on stage most nights during late 1971, this (wisely discarded) moniker was in itself a line taken from John Schlesinger's 1969 film masterpiece "Midnight Cowboy" starring Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman and Brenda Vaccaro. There is a filmic quality to the songs and especially the deep and voluminous amount of lyrics – which brings us to this rather fab 2016 twofer reissue on RCA/Legacy as a LEGACY EDITION.

Fans will know that the last decent digital go at "...Show-Biz..." was the expensive and now deleted US Box Set "RCA Years" – six SACD Remasters by Bob Ludwig and Alan Silverman issued 31 October 2006 on Koch Records. That variant turned up two new previously unreleased live tracks from the original March 1972 gigs at Carnegie Hall that made up Sides 3 and 4 of the original double - "'Til The End Of The Day" and "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina". This new definitive June 2016 'LEGACY EDITION' gives us those two bonuses back again (Tracks 1 and 12 on CD2) along with a juicy 15 more Previously Unreleased cuts on that same disc. The 21-track double-album from 1972 is on CD1 with the whole twofer shebang newly remastered by ace Audio Engineer VIC ANESINI - a name many admire and trust. Long-time Kinks catalogue associate ANDREW SANDOVAL put the package together (he did all the Deluxe Editions for Universal covering their Pye Years) and is even issued on VINYL as a truncated 3LP set (see below). Here are the finite details...

UK released 6 June 2016 (same date USA) - "Everybody's In Show-Biz" by THE KINKS on RCA/Legacy 88875112362 (Barcode 888751123625) is a LEGACY EDITION 2CD Reissue and Remaster with Fifteen Previously Unreleased Tracks (Plus Two 2006 Rarities) that plays out as follows:

Disc One THE ORIGINAL ALBUM (71:19 minutes):

1. Here Comes Yet Another Day [Side 1]

2. Maximum Consumption

3. Unreal Reality

4. Hot Potatoes

5. Sitting In My Hotel

6. Motorway [Side 2]

7. You Don't Know My Name

8. Supersonic Rocket Ship

9. Look A Little On The Sunny Side

10. Celluloid Heroes

11. Top Of The Pops (Live) [Side 3]

12. Brainwashed (Live)

13. Mr. Wonderful (Live)

14. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Live)

15. Holiday (Live)

16. Muswell Hillbilly (Live) [Side 4]

17. Alcohol (Live)

18. Banana Boat Song (Live)

19. Skin And Bone (Live)

20. Baby Face (Live)

21. Lola (Live)

Tracks 1 to 21 make up their tenth album "Everybody's In Show-Biz - Everybody's A Star" - a 2LP set released 26 August 1972 in the USA as "Everybody's In Showbiz" on RCA Victor VPS-6065 and 2 September 1972 in the UK as "Everybody's In Show-Biz - Everybody's A Star" on RCA Victor DPS 2035. It didn't chart in the UK, but peaked at No. 70 in the USA.

Disc Two BONUS TRACKS (62:22 minutes):

1. 'Til The End Of The Day (Live)

2. You're Looking Fine (Live)

3. Get Back In Line (Live)

4. Have A Cuppa Tea (Live)

5. Sunny Afternoon (Live)

6. Muswell Hillbilly (Live)

7. Brainwashed (Live)

8. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Live)

9. Holiday (Live)

10. Alcohol (Live)

11. Complicated Life (Live)

12. She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina (Live)

13. Long Tall Shorty (Live)

14. History (Studio Outtake)

15. Supersonic Rocket Ship (Alternate Mix)

16. Unreal Reality (Alternate Mix)

17. Sophisticated Lady (Rehearsal For Early Version of "Money Talks")

Tracks 1 and 12 first appeared as Previously Unreleased Album Outtakes on the "RCA Years" 6xSACD Box Set issued 31 October 2006 in the USA on Koch Records VEL-CD-79821 (Barcode 634677982125)

Tracks 2 to 11 and 13 to 17 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED [15 in total]

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 recorded 2 March 1972 at Carnegie Hall, NYC

Tracks 3 and 13 recorded 3 March 1972 at Carnegie Hall, NYC

Track 14 recorded 1 March 1972 at Carnegie Hall, NYC

Track 15 recorded 9 February 1972 at Morgan Studios, Willesden in London

Track 16 recorded 1 June 1972 at Morgan Studios, Willesden in London

Track 17 recorded 22 March 1973 at Morgan Studios, Willesden in London

Also : https://theseconddisc.com/2016/06/03/review-kinks-everybodys-show-biz-legacy-edition/

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