Rock 'n' Roll Is King

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I sang on quite a few tracks, I sang on 'Rock 'N' Roll Is King'. I played on that one, but it wasn't called that, it was something about something about working at Austin Longbridge! It was full of car plant sounds, you could hear it going clank, clank, clank, like somebody hitting a lathe with a hammer, and Jeff went away and made it into 'Rock 'n' Roll Is King', wiped off everything we'd done, no, there was still some backing left in there, It was much better how he finished it off than it was before.

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"Rock 'n' Roll Is King"
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Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Secret Messages
B-side
  • "After All"
  • "Time After Time" (12" version)
ReleasedJune 1983 [1]
Recorded1983 Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, the Netherlands
Genre
Length
  • 3:49 (Album version)
  • 3:07 (Single version)
  • 3:10 (Double-album version)
  • 4:13 (Remix)
  • 4:58 (Extended Mix)
Label Jet
Songwriter(s) Jeff Lynne
Producer(s) Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"The Way Life's Meant to Be"
(1982)		"Rock 'n' Roll Is King"
(1983)		"Secret Messages"
(1983)
Secret Messages track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "Secret Messages"
  2. "Loser Gone Wild"
  3. "Bluebird"
  4. "Take Me On and On"
Side two
  1. "Four Little Diamonds"
  2. "Stranger"
  3. "Danger Ahead"
  4. "Letter from Spain"
  5. "Train of Gold"
  6. "Rock 'n' Roll Is King"

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