THE VILLAGE PEOPLE – ‘The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society.’
‘Village Green’ is renowned as the greatest album most people have never heard, Ray Davies labeling it ‘the most successful failure of all time.’
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OLD GROUND – Ray Davies treads a familiar path on OUR COUNTRY: AMERICANA act II
While ‘Americana’ is a fine album, ‘Our Country – Americana act II’ is more a recount than continuation.’
ALL’S WELLES – A Tribute to Awesome Orson…………
With my teenage years advancing into the mid-1970s and in recognition of leaving childhood farther behind, on top of being allowed to stay up and see ‘Match of the Day’ on a Saturday night my parents added the concession of being…
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THE SINGER, THE SONG and STATE OF CALIFORNIA – Two BBC 4 Music programmes send out confused messages.
NY – BBC 1971. In ‘Heart of Gold’ Neil sings ‘I’m getting old’ – somewhat ironic at the age of 27…..
STOP (the) PRESS: Farewell to the print edition of the NME
On its Thursday publication day there was a time when the NME cover story began pub conversations that evening.
BIG BROTHER A CELEBRITY – Ray takes centre stage in BBC Kinks profile.
32 years in The Kinks brought no end to the antipathy between Ray and Dave. The Chuckle Brothers they were not.
BBC FOUR Documentary explores Hits, Hype and Hustle in the Music Business – but whatever happened to Attitude, Albums and Ability?
BBC 4 Documentary: Hits, Hype & Hustle. Modern acts need a Manager, Agent & Media Manager – The Beatles had Brian Epstein.
DON’T LOOK BACK WITH CANDOUR – OASIS conquer the world in ‘SUPERSONIC’ documentary.
If Ray and Dave Davies are the Brothers Grimm of rock, then Noel and Liam are like warring ‘Peaky Blinders.’
JIM RODFORD (1941-2018) – Gentleman and Bass Player Par Excellence;
Standing between the Brothers Grimm as bass player of The Kinks, Jim Rodford occupied the most unenviable stage place in rock.
HELLO 1967 – GOODBYE 2017: Twenty Great Albums from a monumental year for rock.
TWENTY GREAT ALBUMS from 1967: By now the album had superseded the single as the vehicle through which an artist would most express their visions and true ambition. Few would have predicted the long-player to have travelled so far in such a…
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