Temple Beautiful


Temple Beautiful is the twelfth full-length album by American singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet. It was released in the U.S. on February 7, 2012 through Yep Roc Records, with an addition limited release of 150 Cassette tapes by Burger Records.
Temple Beautiful is named after a long closed rock and roll club which was between Bill Graham's iconic Fillmore and the tragic storefront church founded by the Reverend Jim Jones. According to Prophet, "These songs off my new record. It’s a very SF-centric record. I’ve been tapping into the history, the weirdness, the energy and spontaneity that brought me here in the first place.”
All the songs are SF related somehow. There are the people and there is the history that flows through all of us here. There is the music too. And the characters including Laughing Sal, the Tonkin Gulf, Willie Mays, Red Man, Jim Jones, Dan White and many more.

Thematic elements

The album draws on a number of characters and locations from San Francisco's history, including:
All songs written by Chuck Prophet and klipschutz
  1. Play That Song Again
  2. Castro Halloween
  3. Temple Beautiful
  4. Museum Of Broken Hearts
  5. Willie Mays is Up at Bat
  6. The Left Hand and the Right Hand
  7. I Felt Like Jesus
  8. Who Shot John
  9. He Came From So Far Away
  10. Little Girl, Little Boy
  11. White Night, Big City
  12. Emperor Norton in the Last Year of His Life

    Personnel