Showing posts with label Ray Davies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Davies. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2014

Ray Davies shot in 2004

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By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. Ray Davies made the news in 2004 when he was shot in the leg while on vacation in New Orleans. Near the French ...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

The Kinks, live in France, circa 1965

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Happy 67th Birthday to Ray Davies!

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By Jack Brummet Pop Editor Happy 67th Birthday to Ray Davies , one of my great musical heroes.  The video below is a wonderful performanc...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Ten covers of Waterloo Sunset - one of The Kinks' greatest songs, #42 in Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time with videos/covers by Peter Gabriel, Ray Davies, Elliott Smith, Def Leppard, Jackson Brown, and lyrics

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By Jack Brummet Pop Music Editor Waterloo Bridge on the Thames River in London - click to enlarge A London FM radio poll in 2004 named W...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Kinks' Apeman (with the great lyrics)

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By Jack Brummet, Tops of the Pops Editor This is a charming performance of one of my favorite Kinks songs:  Apeman.  Lyrics below. Wr...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset -- an old school music video, by one of the great British Invasion bands

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A gem of a tune from this tragically underappreciated band (I only got to see them once, at the concert hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey in ...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Music video: Lola by The Kinks

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This is an excellent and faifhtul endition of the song by The Kinks. When this came out, I was in my mid-teens, and it was scandalous and s...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

Video (and lyrics): The Kinks' Apeman

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Here is a video of one of my, say, top 20 Kinks songs (and the Kinks have to be in my top ten or 20 list of bands). Apeman I think I'm ...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Video and lyrics: The Kinks' Celluloid Heroes

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This is a concert video of one of The Kinks great tunes. I always liked the early Kinks songs, but it was this song and this album that tur...