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The Kinks in commercials part 4

Toyota Prius – Got To Be Free

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The Kinks in commercials part 3

Volvo – I Gotta Move

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The Lost Dave Davies Album

This first ever compilation of Dave’s work for the Kinks combines all his great work for the band as well as his highly under rated solo material. This newly remastered set done with the approval of Dave and mastered by Kinks archivist hopes to prove that there was not only one talented song writer in the band. A one disc set with art work by award winning designer Phil Smee and notes by Kinks fan club’s Russell Smith contains a complete selection of well know Davies compositions as well as rare mono and alternative takes from Dave’s career with the band and on his own and hopes to remind the listener of the great work done by the man. 

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The release date is the end of September 2011.

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The Kinks in commercials part 2

Days – Volkswagen Cabriolet

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Kinks Kollekted 3CD’s and DVD

Out now in Holland, Kinks Kollekted!

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Dave Davies – Kinkdome Come

Dave Davies, the legendary guitarist of the Kinks, relives his tumultuous life and times amidst the serenity of his Exmoor sanctuary. Walking across the moors that have fascinated him since childhood, Dave takes us back to life with Brother Ray in an extended working class family amidst the austerity of postwar London. Bringing to life its deprivations and triumphs, he reveals the profound sense of community and family bonds which underpins the extraordinary story of the Kinks. From their formation at a North London Secondary Modern, through time spent as backing band to an upper class crooner at debutante balls, Dave tells how the Kinks career as Searchers sound alikes was almost over before it began.
Click here to watch the videos on Dave Davies his YouTube Channel.

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The Kinks – Bird Dog

The Kinks New Year’s Eve celebration from the Palladium in New York is one of their most popular, and most often bootlegged, radio show.  The original live broadcast was produced by the Blair Starfleet Radio Network and was heard on fifty-seven stations in the U.S. and Canada and in New York on WPLJ.

In 1981 Starfleet edited the show and distributed the tape to various radio stations in London, the Netherlands and Germany.  The edited show became the source for the many and various bootleg releases including the 2LP vinyl release New Year’s Eve 1980-81 and the CD releases New Year’s Eve : New York City, December 31, 1981 (CD-W-12) and Another One For The Road.

Another One For The Road is a low budget no label release.  It has great sound quality but is sourced from vinyl.  The mastering job is very good but there is some surface noise and the occasional pop and click.  About an hour is missing from the show, including ”I’m Not Like Everybody Else” and “Come On” after “Nothing More To Lose,” and the final four songs “Stop Your Sobbin’,” “David Watts,” “Pressure” and “Superman” which followed “All Day And All Of The Night.”

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Musical film Schoolboys in Disgrace

Former White Stripe Jack White is in talks to provide music for comedian Bobcat Goldthwait’s (Police Academy movies) musical film based on The Kinks’ 1976 concept album, Schoolboys in Disgrace.

Screen Daily reports that Kinks legend Ray Davies has been appointed as an executive director of the film, which is being produced by Howard Gertler and Tim Perell of Warp Films, an offshoot of Warp Records that has worked on Submarine and Four Lions and is distributing new Australian film Snowtown. The article confirmed the courting of White to “re-record the music,” and said the film could be a German co-production.

Schoolboys in Disgrace is a prequel of sorts to the Kinks’ 1973-74 rock opera, Preservation: Acts 1 & 2. According to the album’s liner notes, Schoolboys in Disgrace is the story of “a naughty little schoolboy” who is turned into a hard and bitter character after a public punishment in front of the whole school for getting himself into “very serious trouble with a naughty schoolgirl.” That naughty boy grows up to be Mr. Flash, the villain from Preservation.

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The Kinks in Uncut and Mojo

The Kinks mentioned in the British music magazines Uncut and Mojo.
Click on the pictures to read the articles.
Two huge
Kinks fans:
Ray LaMontagne and
Mike Rutherford (Genesis)

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