(charted June 25, 1983 for 15 weeks)
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Rock 'N' Roll Is King |
| Produced by Jeff Lynne | |
| Released on June 1983 | |
| UK CHART POSITION #13 . . . US CHART POSITION #19 (charted June 25, 1983 for 15 weeks) | |
| Find it at GEMM | |
| ZS4 03964 wo. picture sleeve |
T his is essentially a rewrite of “Hold On Tight” and “Roll Over Beethoven” rolled together. A cute sentiment, I suppose, except that rock & roll wasn’t king anymore. For some reason, Jeff Lynne was shifting away from sophisticated studio pop and toward roots rock at a time when the band should have been changing with the times rather than travelling back in time. Oh well, nothing lasts forever, certainly not the two-and-a-half minute instrumental on the flip side, “After All.” Like many of ELO’s nonalbum Bees, it’s good enough to qualify as an album track, sort of a sad, wordless love song like Elton John’s “Song For Guy.”
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| REGION | RELEASE DATE | LABEL | MEDIA | ID NUMBER | FEATURES |
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| UK | June 1983 | Jet | 7"/12 | A/TA3500 | picture sleeve |
| US/CAN | June 1983 | Jet | 7" | ZS4 03964 | |
| US | 1983 | Jet | 7PRO | ZS4 03964 | feat. A on both sides |
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