Schoolboys in Disgrace or The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace is a 1975 album by English

England

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 rock

Rock and roll

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 group The Kinks

The Kinks

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.

According to the back cover liner notes

Liner notes

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, 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

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).

The front cover was illustrated by Mickey Finn

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 of T. Rex

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. It later appeared on NME

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's list of the '50 worst covers of all time'.

Track listing

Personnel

• Ray Davies
  Ray Davies
  Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
  
  : vocals, guitar, piano
• Dave Davies
  Dave Davies
  David Russell Gordon "Dave" Davies is an English rock musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks....
  
  : lead guitar, vocals
• Mick Avory
  Mick Avory
  Michael Charles "Mick" Avory is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the British rock band, The Kinks, joining them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remaining with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies...
  
  : drums
• John Dalton
  John Dalton
  John Dalton FRS was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness .-Early life:John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland,...
  
  : bass guitar
• John Gosling
  John Gosling
  not to be confused with John Gostling John Gosling , is an English classically trained organist and pianist....
  
  : keyboards

• 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