Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks
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Everybody's a dreamer ... everybody's a star :)
A #SundaySoother #cheese with this Kinks classic
The Kinks close Everybody's in Show-Biz, in which they examined the difference between Hollywood stereotypes and American reality, with this number about movie stars and the Walk of Fame.
Kinks frontman Ray Davies wrote the song; when he visited Los Angeles, he would stay at a hotel near the Walk of Fame, and was intrigued by how it represented success alongside failure.
The song was released as the second single from Everybody's in Show-Biz, but failed to chart. However, the track received consistent airplay on AOR radio stations in the US into the 1980s and it remains a song that is often played when these stations mark the passing of a Hollywood star.
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That Seth McEff Oscar™ Bummer is still stuck to the roof of my mind.
Happy Birthday, Ray.
