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Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, and former television and radio presenter. King first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, achieved chart success in Britain and the United States. The Guardian reported in 2002 that he had sold over 40 million records in his career. As an independent producer, he discovered and named Genesis in 1967, and produced their first album From Genesis to Revelation. He founded his own label, UK Records in 1972. He released and produced songs for 10cc and the Bay City Rollers. In the 1970s King became known for hits that he performed and/or produced under different names, including "Johnny Reggae", "Loop di Love", "Hooked On A Feeling" and "Una Paloma Blanca"; between September 1971 and 1972 alone he produced 10 top 30 singles in the UK. Rod Liddle described him as someone who could "storm the pop charts at will, under a hundred different disguises".While living in New York in the 1980s, King continued to appear on radio and television in the UK, including on the BBC's Top of the Pops and Entertainment USA. In the early 1990s he produced the Brit Awards, and from 1995 he selected and produced the British entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, including the winning entry in 1997, "Love Shine a Light" by Katrina and the Waves.In September 2001, King was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to seven years in prison, for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s. In November 2001 he was acquitted of 22 similar charges. He was released on parole in March 2005. A further trial for sexual offences against teenage boys resulted in several not guilty verdicts and the trial being abandoned in June 2018.
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The British Invasion [Time Life] [2017]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:23 |
The British Beat: Best of the '60s [2007]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:32 |
Greatest Hits of the 60's [Disky Box 1] [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:23 |
The British Invasion Box [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:33 |
Ultimate British Invasion Collection [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:30 |
25 Hits from the British Invasion [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Everyones' Gone to the Moon | 2:33 |
Complete Collection [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:23 |
Hedgehoppers Anonymous [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:30 |
The Woodstock Generation: Everything Is Beautiful [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:23 |
Eternal Love [Empire] [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:23 |
Back to the Sixties [Crimson] [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon |
Dick Bartley Presents Collector's Essentials on the Radio, Vol. 1: The '60s [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon [Original Mono Single] | 2:34 |
British Rock [Original Sound] [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:21 |
British Rock, Vol. 3-4 [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:21 |
British Rock, Vol. 3 [Original Sound] [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:21 |
The British Invasion: History of British Rock, Vol. 7 [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon | 2:31 |
The British Invasion: History of British Rock, Vols. 1-9 [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Everyone's Gone to the Moon |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
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Una Paloma Blanca | |
JOHNNY REGGAE | 2:22 |
WAYS2021 | 5:57 |
I'll Slap Your Face | 2:06 |
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