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Counting down the Kinks 15 greatest songs
I don’t have that song on the following list because, quite frankly, at this point, the minimalism of the Kinks orchestrations doesn’t lend itself to this song. The Pretenders would hit it a ...
The Kinks Push Their Classic Into The Top 10 For The First Time, 60 Years After Its Release
The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week, hitting the top 10 on two of them, ...
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5 Classic Rock Songs That Were Banned by the Government
You might be surprised to learn that these famous classic rock songs were banned by a few different government agencies back ...
‘Prince of the Punks’: the vicious novelty song The Kinks used to throw insults
The Kinks weren't alien to the idea of lampooning trend-followers, but they went all out on their attack of one artist who ...
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Shel Talmy, produced hits by The Who, The Kinks and other 1960s British bands, dead at 87
a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics as The Who's “My Generation” and The Kinks' “You Really Got Me,” helped oversee hits by Manfred Mann and ...
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Shel Talmy, produced hits by The Who, The Kinks and other 1960s British bands, dead at 87
As one of the rare independent producers of the time, he signed up The Kinks and oversaw many of their biggest hits during the mid-’60s, from the raw breakthrough single “You Really Got Me ...