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"Lonely Boy" is an international hit song from 1977, written and recorded by Andrew Gold in 1976 for his album What's Wrong with This Picture? It spent five months on the American charts, peaking at number seven in both Canada [5] and the United States, [6] the latter for three consecutive weeks on June 11, 18 and 25, 1977, [7] [8] and number 11 in the United Kingdom.
"Lonely Boy" is a song by American rock band the Black Keys. It is the opening track from their 2011 studio album El Camino and was released as the record's lead single on October 26, 2011. The song is also the A-side of a promotional 12-inch single that was released in commemoration of Record Store Day's "Back to Black" Friday event. [3]
Gold was born on August 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, [1] [4] and eventually followed his parents into show business. His mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy ...
On the singles charts, "Lonely Boy" was the group's highest-charting song in several countries, peaking at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100, [45] number 2 on the Australian Singles Chart, [46] and number 33 on the Canadian Hot 100. [47] "
It includes the hit single "Lonely Boy" which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard singles chart [4] featuring Linda Ronstadt on backing vocals. The album's artwork reflects its title, mimicking a style of visual puzzle that consists of various logical inconsistencies or paradoxes for the viewer to try to identify.
sung by Edward Tudor-Pole, and numerous novelty tracks including French street musicians playing "Anarchy in the UK" and a medley of several Sex Pistols songs covered by a disco band. Two further tracks were recorded along with "Lonely Boy" and "Silly Thing" between May and July 1978; "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again".
"Lonely Boy" (Paul Anka song), 1959 "Lonely Boy" (Andrew Gold song), 1977 "Lonely Boy" (The Black Keys song), 2011 "Lonely Boy", a 1963 song by Larry Norman on the album Home at Last "Lonely Boy", a 1979 song by the Sex Pistols on the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
The song's music video was uploaded to YouTube on the same day the song released. The video features its focal character, Lonely Boy (played by Gold), in an office environment as he sings about his displeasure with a female Twitch streamer's new boyfriend, named Jared.