Rock N' Roll Is a Vicious Game
April Wine | Artist Essentials
First released: 1977 (year verified)
Original 1977 London US studio single
MusicAtlas editorial note: A more reflective guitar-led choice before the next album group.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1977 (year verified)
The artist-hosted US archive dates London 5N-265 to 1977 and explicitly places that single before the Capitol First Glance album. Only year precision is asserted; the later Canadian single and album are 1978.
Recording: Original 1977 London US studio single
Credit: April Wine
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Rock N' Roll Is a Vicious Game / I'm Alive
April Wine - artist-hosted US singles archive
The artist-hosted physical-record catalog distinguishes commercial singles, promos, acetates and reissues. It identifies the 1974 non-album I'm on Fire for You Baby studio single and the 1977 London Rock N' Roll Is a Vicious Game single before First Glance. The collection selects original commercial studio releases, not later live performances or acetate dates. | Reviewed 2026-10-19
First Glance
1978 (year verified)
April Wine - official history and original album programs
The original studio album sections supply the selected track programs and album years from 1971 to 2006. Canadian and US programs, live albums and later compilations are separately identified. Earlier singles are dated from the artist-hosted single catalog, not from subsequent albums; narrative chart success is not a release date. | Reviewed 2026-10-19
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About April Wine
April Wine began in Nova Scotia in late 1969 with Myles Goodwyn and members of the Henman family. The group moved from Halifax to Montreal in 1970 and recorded for Aquarius, with Goodwyn becoming a central songwriter. Its catalog balances direct rock songs with ballads: Roller and I Like to Rock preceded Just Between You and Me. That ballad appeared on The Nature of the Beast, released in January 1981 as the band's international audience expanded.
Artist background sources
History - April Wine official website
1969 Nova Scotia origins, 1970 relocation to Montreal, Aquarius and Goodwyn; Roller and I Like to Rock chronology; The Nature of the Beast in January 1981 and its Just Between You and Me single. Current lineup and unrelated later chronology are outside this profile. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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