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‘I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show’: connecting the careers of Ray Davies and the man cast as him in Kinks movie
October 31, 2016 -
‘He stuns you by degrees’*: Benedict Benjamin at The Harrison
May 19, 2016 -
Celluloid villains and heroes: casting news on the Kinks movie
October 23, 2015 -
‘Long ago in my life story’: the Sunny Afternoon musical takes us all for a stroll down an incident-strewn memory lane with The Kinks
March 17, 2015
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‘I used to think why aren’t people paying attention to my music?’ Hmm, not something Shakey Graves can ruefully wonder any more
November 21, 2014 -
‘Some are survivors, some are debris’: some lyrics stand the test of time, others are perhaps better washed away with the tar on the tide
June 11, 2014 -
‘There’s no way we can agree’: rumours of a Kinks reunion unravel
October 21, 2013 -
I seriously believed there could be no one deeper, cooler or more poetic than Don Henley when it came to lyrics. Come on, ‘Somebody laid the [...]
‘I’m a bus, I’m a tourist cigar’: the evidently drug-induced line I heard Al Stewart sing in ‘The Year of the Cat’ – hey, it was the 70s, man
August 23, 2013
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‘If you don’t believe I’m going/You can count the days I’m gone’: looks like you can take the man out of The Kinks …
August 12, 2013 -
A snippet of teen trivia on The Kinks and their ‘legendary hair’
April 19, 2013
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‘And I’m still searching for my dream’: what we look for when we look up The Kinks
December 23, 2012 -
‘Truly, truly trust your heart’: another arcadian adventure in Kinkdom with Dave Davies
November 8, 2012 -
The unholy triumvirate split asunder – the threads unwind between Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory of The Kinks, episode three
October 23, 2012
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Back on the mystical track far away from the real world at ex-Kinks Dave Davies’s secret shangri-la
October 3, 2012 -
Episode two on the love-hate triangle between Ray Davies, Mick Avory and Dave Davies of The Kinks
September 25, 2012 -
That special Kinks relationship between Ray Davies and Mick Avory and the rather less special one between Mick and Dave Davies, episode one
September 3, 2012 -
Postmortem on the Olympics – fiasco, triumph or a bit of both?
August 20, 2012