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The track borrows the main riff from The Kinks' 1964 song, "All Day and All of the Night", which was one of the band's first hits. [2] The lyrics feature the return of the transvestite title character from The Kinks' 1970 hit song, "Lola"; in "Destroyer", the singer brings Lola to his place where he becomes increasingly paranoid. [3]
"Black Messiah" was released on the Misfits album, but was also released in single form. On the U.S. version of the "Live Life" single, "Black Messiah" replaced "In a Foreign Land" as the B-side. On the U.S. version of the "Live Life" single, "Black Messiah" replaced "In a Foreign Land" as the B-side.
Muswell Hillbillies is the tenth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks. Released on 24 November 1971, it was the band's first album released through RCA Records. The album is named after the Muswell Hill area of North London, where band leader Ray Davies and guitarist Dave Davies grew up and the band formed in the early 1960s. [3]
The song appears on the band's live album One for the Road (1980) and was re-recorded for the 2009 album The Kinks Choral Collection. The song was also the title track of a 1976 collection featuring material originally released while recording for the RCA label, The Kinks' Greatest: Celluloid Heroes.
The album was also released as a 7" boxed set including a 7" with the Kooks version of "Victoria" on one side and the Kinks version on the other. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The song has also been recorded by Cracker , Nomeansno (who adapted the lyrics to be about Victoria, British Columbia ), Roy Arad (who translated the song to Hebrew and changed Victoria to ...
The Kinks' recording of "All of My Friends Were There" was absent from Davies's original twelve-track edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, planned for release in September 1968. [14] When Davies delayed the album's release to expand it to fifteen tracks, "All of My Friends Were There" was among the songs he added. [15]
"Come Dancing" is a tribute to Davies' older sister Rene. Living in Canada with her reportedly abusive husband, the 31-year-old Rene was visiting her childhood home in Fortis Green in London at the time of Ray Davies' 13th birthday—21 June 1957—on which she surprised him with a gift of the Spanish guitar he had tried to persuade his parents to buy him. [3]
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France (pictured 2004), where Ray Davies composed the song. Ray Davies composed "Big Sky" in January 1968 while visiting Cannes, France. [3] At the request of his song publisher, Ray was attending the second annual MIDEM Music Publishers Festival, an international music industry convention, hoping it would help boost his position in the record industry. [4]