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God Save The Kinks

Author : Rob Jovanovic
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781311374
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book God Save The Kinks written by Rob Jovanovic and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1964 The Kinks released their third single. After a little noticed debut and a follow-up that had failed to chart at all, Pye Records were threatening to annul the group’s contract. But with its unforgettable distorted guitar riff, 'You Really Got Me’ went on to reach No.1, entering the US Top Ten later the same year. Followed by a string of hits, it marked the breakthrough of one of Britain’s most innovative and influential bands, and a turning point in the fortunes of two brothers whose troubled story is as tumultuous and characterful as the music they produced: Ray and Dave Davies. Born into a deeply musical working-class family in London’s Muswell Hill, Ray and Dave grew up in a city recovering from the bombs and privations of the Second World War. More than any other musicians of the Sixties, they crafted the soundtrack that made it swing again. In songs such as ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’, ‘Sunny Afternoon’ – which toppled The Beatles to become the hit of Summer 1966 – ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘Days’ and ‘Lola’, they drew on music hall, folk and rhythm and blues to craft a peculiarly English pop idiom, inspiring generations of songwriters from David Bowie to Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn. Pocked by sibling rivalry, furious on-stage violence, walkouts, overdoses, a career-throttling ban from the US, gross self-indulgence, and the band's curious rebirth as eighties stadium rockers, the story laid bare in God Save The Kinks is one of the greatest in British pop history.

Americana

Author : Ray Davies
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1402797192
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Americana written by Ray Davies and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kinks singer recounts and reflects on his travels in America: “This is no tired rock story but something far more profound, funny, and disturbing.” —The Irish Times As a boy in postwar England, legendary Kinks singer/songwriter Ray Davies fell in love with America—its movies and music, and its culture of freedom, fed his imagination. Then, as part of the British Invasion, he toured the US with the Kinks during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent history—until the Kinks were banned from performing there from 1965-69. Many tours and trips later, while living in New Orleans, he experienced a transformative event: the shooting (a result of a botched robbery) that nearly took his life. In Americana, Davies tries to make sense of his long love-hate relationship with the country that both inspired and frustrated him. From his quintessentially English perspective as a Kink, Davies—with candor and humor—takes us on a very personal road trip through his life and storied career as a rock star, and reveals what music, fame, and America really mean to him. Some of the most fascinating characters in recent pop culture make appearances, from the famous to the perhaps even-more-interesting behind-the-scenes players. The book also includes photos from Davies’s own collection and the band’s archive. “The chapters on the New Orleans shooting [are] astonishing, really riveting.” —The New York Post “Davies is candid and honest about his personal and creative struggles.” —The New York Times

You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks

Author : Nick Hasted
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857129910
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks written by Nick Hasted and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Really Got Me is Nick Hasted’s illuminating biography of The Kinks, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with Ray and Dave Davies and shedding new light on a turbulent 30-year career scarred by suicide attempts, on-stage fights and recurring mental breakdowns. The Kinks’ distorted fuzz cut through popular music like a chainsaw and unexpectedly propelled two brothers from North London straight to the heights of stardom, to stand alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. With exclusive interviews Nick Hasted untangles this turbulence: Why The Kinks became the only British group to be banned from America at the height of their success; why original bassist Pete Quaife quit in 1968; Ray Davies’ fraught relationship with Chrissie Hynde; how The Kinks’ later years rehabilitated their reputation in America. Updated to include details of the hit musical Sunny Afternoon and an up-to-the-minute report on the troubled relationship between the Davies brothers, You Really Got Me is the ultimate Kinks biography. “Keen eyed critique of a most contrary band” Uncut “Hasted is illuminating” Guardian

The Kinks

Author : Jon Savage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571134076
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks written by Jon Savage and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on extensive interviews with the band and the people closest to them over a twenty-year period, this authorized biography gives a definitive insight into the Kinks and their music. Here, for the first time, is the full story behind some of the most timeless pop songs ever written and the group that created them"--Publisher description.

The Kinks

Author : Carey Fleiner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223542X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks written by Carey Fleiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies’s band, the Kinks, became one of England’s most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as “You Really Got Me,” “Lola,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the Kinks produced 24 studio albums between 1964 and 1996. The Kinks’ prolific and varied catalog have made them both a mirror of and a counterfoil to nearly five decades of British and American culture. The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon examines the music and performance of this quintessentially English band and shows how aspects of everyday life such as work, play, buying a house, driving a car, drinking tea, getting drunk, and getting laid, affected and shaped their creative output. Through an investigation of their music, lyrics, and image, Carey Fleiner shows how the Kinks reflected both the ordinary and the absurd, sometimes confronting topics with anger and sometimes with self-deprecating humor. The Kinks follows the band’s trajectory more or less chronologically and explores themes such as growing up in post-war Britain, the packaging and exploitation of the “British Invasion” bands, satire and self-consciousness, sexuality and gender-bending, social and political pessimism, the comforts of family, and the effects of fame and fandom. Fleiner’s investigation into the influences on and impact of the Kinks’ music takes readers on an engaging adventure through the musical culture of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, revealing how the Kinks created an undeniable sound and image that still attracts new followers today.

The Kinks

Author : Neville Marten
Publisher : Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781860741357
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks written by Neville Marten and published by Sanctuary Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the music of The Kinks remain relevant in the nineties.

The Kinks Kronikles

Author : Edwin Schlossberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinks Kronikles written by Edwin Schlossberg and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years- longer than any rock group in history except the Rolling Stones- God's been saving The Kinks. From dedicated followers of fashion, From demon alcohol. From vengeful governments. And mostly from each other. Alternately marked by intramural brawling and inexplicable banishments, transcendent brillance and shameless pandering, emotional collapses, punch-ups and sellouts, scandalous affairs and utter discretion, drunkenness and cruelty and failed attempts at fratricide, altruism, and greed, The Kinks' long history is among the most fascinating in rock.

Ray Davies

Author : Johnny Rogan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1847923313
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Ray Davies written by Johnny Rogan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit ‘You Really Got Me’. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at their gigs. But Ray’s journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA. His relationship with his brother Dave is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies.

The Kinks: Chord Songbook

Author : Bosworth Music
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783233222
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks: Chord Songbook written by Bosworth Music and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can play your favourite hits by The Kinks on guitar in no time...with just a handful of simple, easy chords for each song! All the songs have been specially arranged by Rikky Rooksby in the original keys from the actual hit recordings. Song list: All Day And All Of The Night Apeman Autumn Almanac Days Dead End Street Dedicated Follower Of Fashion Lola Plastic Man See My Friends Set Me Free Sunny Afternoon Till The End Of The Day Tired Of Waiting For You Victoria Waterloo Sunset You Really Got Me

Ray Davies

Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135867941
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Ray Davies written by Thomas M. Kitts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date. Kitts situates Davies’ work in the context of the British Invasion and the growth of rock in the '60s and '70s, and in the larger context of English cultural history. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, this book is a must have. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century. Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the Division of English/Speech at St. John’s University, NY, is the co-editor of Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with The Kinks, the author of The Theatrical Life of George Henry Boker, articles on American literature and popular culture, reviews of books, CDs, and performances, and a play Gypsies. He is the book review editor of Popular Music and Society and the editor of The Mid-Atlantic Almanack.

The Kinks

Author : Doug Hinman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879307653
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks written by Doug Hinman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tracks every move in the Kinks' career. With the help of band members, Doug Hinman has reconstructed their meteoric rise to fame in the early 60s through its dissolution and revival in the 70s, stadium success in the 80s, and an apparently final breakdown in the late 90s

Kink

Author : Dave Davies
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786882694
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Kink written by Dave Davies and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a raw and riveting, completely candid autobiography, Dave Davies, co-founder of the legendary, ever-popular English rock band The Kinks, delves into the turbulence of his own amazing life: sex, drugs, and rock and roll; his famous feuds with brother Ray; and an insider's life in the steamy center of the music scene. of photos.

The Kinks: Every Album Every Song

Author : Martin Hutchinson
Publisher : Sonicbond Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781789521726
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks: Every Album Every Song written by Martin Hutchinson and published by Sonicbond Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailing from Muswell Hill in London, The Kinks were one of the top British bands of the sixties, with over twenty hit singles including a trio of number ones (including the famous paean to their home city 'Waterloo Sunset'). They had over a dozen top ten's, thanks to the clever and sometimes sardonic songwriting of Ray Davies, who dominated the band and deservedly went on to be knighted. When the seventies came along, they recorded a number of critically acclaimed concept albums, and their live shows became more theatrical with the band shifting focus to become pioneers of arena rock in America. Following a resurgence of commercial popularity in the late seventies and early eighties, the band continued to record interesting and lyrically insightful albums. They last performed together in 1996. The combination of Ray's songs and the musicianship of the band - including his brother Dave Davies, with whom Ray had a rather tempestuous relationship, has resulted in The Kinks being named as a major influence for many bands. This book examines all the tracks released by The Kinks, both singles and albums, and provides a valuable insight into one of music's greatest groups.

This Day in Music

Author : Neil Cossar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783055104
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book This Day in Music written by Neil Cossar and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.

The Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Author : Andy Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441110682
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society written by Andy Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here, Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation, and celebrates the timeless, perfectly crafted songs pieced together by a band who were on the verge of disintegration and who refused to follow fashion. 'Big Sky' contains some of the most beautiful, thunderous music The Kinks ever recorded, aligned to a vulnerability and warmth no other group - and I mean no other group - could ever hope to equal. It is a perfectly balanced production. On the one hand, the mesh of clattering drums and electric guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other, the gossamer-light harmonies, Ray and Dave's vocal line traced by Rasa Davies' wordless falsetto, are bursting with emotion. When most of the instruments drop away at 1.20, the effect is effortlessly vivid - two lines where Davies' performance is both nonchalant and impassioned. The result is wonderfully, enchantingly sad, made more so perhaps by the knowledge that The Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.

United Kinkdom: The Music of The Kinks

Author : Chris Wade
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471706044
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book United Kinkdom: The Music of The Kinks written by Chris Wade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Wade looks at the career of pop giants THE KINKS. Features band interviews, album analysis and a host of pictures. A must have for any devoted or part time Kinks fan.

Crime of the Century: Classic Rock and True Crime

Author : Angie Moon
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1805143158
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Crime of the Century: Classic Rock and True Crime written by Angie Moon and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime of the Century is a comprehensive book about classic rock’s connections to true crime cases with over twenty true stories of classic rock musicians and their encounters with murderers, and musicians who committed murders. Inside the book you’ll find the most famous stories like how The Beach Boys met Charles Manson and how Phil Spector went from legendary producer to convicted murderer. There are stories of how classic rockers encountered some of the most notorious serial killers like The Kinks meeting John Wayne Gacy on their 1965 American tour and Debbie Harry allegedly getting into Ted Bundy’s car in the early 70s. You’ll see how the Manson Family’s classic rock connections run deeper than you thought with their encounters with Neil Young, John Phillips, Tony Valentino, Phil Ochs, and Frank Zappa. You’ll also learn how classic rockers were only a few degrees of separation from presidential assassinations and attempted assassinations like The Band meeting Jack Ruby, Squeaky Fromme pursuing Jimmy Page, and John Hinckley’s encounter with DEVO and how they used the poem he wrote for Jodie Foster as song lyrics. It’s a wild and crazy ride through classic rock history. But believe it or not, these are all true stories.