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Memphis Tennessee … All that." // "R & F – What is King Of Rock n 'Roll about?" // "McA – You could imagine that it would be a sort of Elvis Presley imitator. Someone who still chases the dreams of adolescence, someone trying to convince himself and to convince others that he's still eighteen when he hasn't been for a very long time. "Hot Dog Jumping Frog, Albuquerque", the refrain is a happy contrast to the rest. You might imagine that this is the song he always dreamed of writing.
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declared "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" "the f***ing kiss of death for this band because it pushed everything in a poppy direction and the record company just wanted more of that. And that song was a joke! It's a song about a guy who dreams about being a rock 'n' roll star and ends up a one hit wonder –
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The song's commercial and singalong qualities are unlike the work Prefab Sprout were known for in 1985, and McAloon initially felt the song was of no use to his band. He changed his mind and felt a lighter song may surprise fans used to his work being "very precise and delicate". That year, he joked
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I thought the chorus of it was haiku without the syllabic law. Hotdog, jumping frog, Albuquerque. It hasn't got any sense other than this vaguely American feeling to it, and it's a bit like you know when you see shirts that have been made in Japan, T-shirts, and they've got three disconnected words
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McA – ...I also rediscovered the pleasure of playing with words for their sound. In "King Of Rock n 'Roll", for example," Hot Dog, Jumping Frog, Albuquerque", it doesn't mean anything. It's just a series of Americanisms. In a way it's kind of what Bolan did, or of course people like Chuck Berry.
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article, Angus Finlayson implored readers to "listen beyond the nonchalant synth pop bounce, you may detect a note of poignancy in this tale of an aging pop star still dining out on the success of his first hit."
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on 23 March 1988 at number 77, eventually reaching two weeks at number 7 from 28 April to 10 May. Ultimately, the song spent 11 weeks in the top 100, and remains the band's only top ten single.
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was produced for the song, featuring the band lying beside a pool and attended by a frog butler, a diver who is reluctant to jump into the pool until the end, and dancing human-size
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although Prefab were never a one hit wonder, it’s still ironic in a weird sort of way". McAloon has similarly acknowledged an irony in the single's success and related how
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without the syllabic law" and said the line "hasn’t got any sense other than this vaguely American feeling to it". He had made similar comments in a 1988 interview with
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described the song as a "bouncy, seemingly upbeat pop tune" that "actually tells the rather barbed tale of a middle-aged
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wrote "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" in February 1985 as a companion piece to another new song he wrote at that time, "
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The song's lyrics concern a washed-up 1950s star who is only remembered for his one-hit
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in March 1988. It was the second single taken from their album of that year,
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on 13 May 1988, performing a solo acoustic version of the song in front of
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described the song as "naggingly catchy and knowingly daft". In a 2013
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condemned to sing the same juvenile ditty over and over".
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in August 1985, but a studio recording was never released.
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in 1952, "My Ding-a-Ling" was a UK and US #1 single for
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Reflecting on the song in 2000, Prefab Sprout drummer
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The song features in "Gatherings", a 1999 episode of
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The King of Rock 'N' Roll - Prefab Sprout | AllMusic
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Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)
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King of Rock and Roll (disambiguation)

Single
Prefab Sprout
From Langley Park to Memphis
B-side
Genre
Pop rock
synth-pop
new wave
Label
Kitchenware
Songwriter(s)
Paddy McAloon
Producer(s)
Thomas Dolby
Prefab Sprout
Cars and Girls
English
pop
Prefab Sprout
Kitchenware Records
From Langley Park to Memphis
UK
UK Singles Chart
Paddy McAloon
Cars and Girls
NME
Edwyn Collins
Kevin Johnson's

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