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FWIW, One for the Road, Live Album is one of the Best Live Albums ever Recorded. Been a Kinks fan going back the very early 1980s. I lent my Daughter a Vinyl copy of that Album a few years ago, I don't think I'll ever get it back. She loves it and virtually all her friends are completely blown away. They stop by to visit her and individually just want her hear a certain song. A different song for each it seems. Great video !!!

I can't help but wonder, if it's true they played a gig at John Wayne Gacy's house?

Lola vs the power man was when college radio picked up the kinks and that LP was in every dorm room I saw all the 70’s tours till Give The People What They Want in 1983 The kinks were smart & hip in every way

This is a great explanation of the Kinks history.

I believe the encounter with 'Lola ' was in a club in Paris.

Waterloo Sunset is a gem. You don't have to be British to be moved by those lyrics. One song I wish you had added was"Everybody's in Showbiz".

Ray was his own worst enemy in many ways. I love The Kinks dearly but Ray is one moody sod. 🤣 Before UA-cam I'd never heard the story of their American tour but it doesn't surprise me. My mum always had this massive crush on Ray and I can see what she means because I've always been attracted to intense type men. I'm an intense type of person myself. It doesn't make a person easy to get along with!

XTC are the only other artists I can cite who are/were as quintessentially English as The Kinks. Sadly, both bands are now defunct, with little likelihood of any reunions.

The Stones and The Kinks are the only 2 British Invasion bands to have a "Top 10" hit in America in 3 different decades. 60s, 70s and 80s.

Makes me realise what rubbish is recorded these days. Songs with trite lyrics and, sadly, auto-tune. I’m pleased I was around to hear the Kinks’ music.

Pete Townshend called Ray Davies the Poet Laureate of English pop music.

This is excellent!

"Baby, I feel good... From the moment I rise!" My favorite opening line ever! I swear, Tim, every time I watch this, you've stuck some new fact in! Thanks again!

1966, Sunny Afternoon was #1 when England won the World Cup - as I once said to Dave, Nobody can ever take it away, The Kinks were Number One when England won the World Cup (everyone had been buying the single that week, the boys heard the news the next day 'Sunday' in a car en route to a gig in Exeter), Brilliant Days..

This is so well done! What a great tribute to a great songwriter. Keep it up! Maybe you could do a video on the specials?

And you have to understand Americans. We don’t bow to anyone’s queen, but we’ll shake her hand, and knighthood belongs at the round table…. Any brave man is basically a knight and we don’t need any medal and ribbon to prove it,.

Hey buddy, The Kinks and Van Halen are both great bands, but they’re apples and oranges. Calling any early Van Halen album stodgy… LOL That’s your opinion an a damned silly one. I’d be careful lest you alienate a lot of people. You know, damned well, that you’re in the minority in this. You Really Got Me performed by either band is something of its own. “Apples” and “Oranges.” If you are a solid Kinks fan, though, I suppose you might get resentful of covers. C’mon, they both rock and, yes, it’s Ray’s song. Van Halen borrowed it, just like everyone borrows from The Beatles…. Ray & Dave must have cried all the way to the bank. VH seriously lined their pockets with that one…

Excellent. Really excellent. With one quibble. The comment about Pete Townshend baffles me... Townshend is a bone fide genius and deserves more respect than he is afforded here.

Ray Davies and The Kinks I can see influenced me much more than I realized. I think half my two hour concert movie was inspired by them.

I struggle between the KinKs & the Replacements as my favorite band. Very touching video. Thank you.

as long as we gaze at waterloo sunset we are in paradise

I thought Link Ray was the first one to use distortion , though Dave Davies was way ahead of his time !

Total BS, the Kinks stole You Really Got Me from Van Halen.

3:09 Who was the guy who broke a tooth? Has he ever been interviewed. Is this story made up maybe?

Thanks for this very informative and entertaining video! I saw the Kinks twice in the mid-80's in Philadelphia. Muswell Hillbillies is my favorite of their albums. It was so very English, yet paid homage to an idealized America. Dave is surely the most underappreciated rock guitarist ever. Reminds me of George Harrison in that neither was particularly flashy - but always served the song.

😕 Ray...where are you? The Universe is telling me something isn’t right... We haven’t seen him since 2019 - a few stalker photos of him and Dave - but I fear that Ray isn’t long for this world. Any other Kinks fan out there heard any updates on him - l worry it’s dementia for Sir Ray.

GOD SAVE THE KINKS!

Ray Davies was knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 3/17/2017, where the Kinks front man thanked fans and met with members of the press. Davies previously received the CBE - Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - by Queen Elizabeth in 2004.

Great episode Tim! I always learn something I didn't know! lol

Gosh, Tim, this is brilliant, and I love it! Especially the 'inside baseball' production info - and the Diane story, wow, what a revelation! The Beach Boys were my first famous celebrity band live concert. I was at the April 13th, 1968 concert at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, as a 17 year old high school junior, with a gang of classmates. Only 8 days before, Martin Luther King had been shot dead. With the tour running through the South, we read that several shows had been canceled. Also on the tour were Buffalo Springfield and Strawberry Alarm Clock (who were replaced last minute by Bobby Goldsboro). There was talk of trouble, and the night before in Jacksonville, they got it from a nervous police force who apparently got into an altercation with some of the Springfield. According to later reports, Neil Young had a seizure. My parents had to be begged to let me go - but they relented, and the show was fantastic! I barely remember the opening acts, and the Beach Boys came onstage very late, but seemed to play "all the hits" for hours and hours. We didn't know there had been a 7:00 show in nearby Sarasota, followed by our show in Tampa at 8:30 - they used to really work these guys! The absolute pinnacle of the show was "Good Vibrations" which seemed a miracle at the time. They added and subtracted layers of sound and voices over and over. I had never heard of a Theramin, of course, and we all marveled at Mike Love, who played it so gleefully! What a night, what an awesome memory! Thanks, Tim - loving this new series!

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Hello, Tim! Very, very nice video (that unwinds beautifully as though it's a personal anecdote) about the woman who should rightly be one of everyone's favorite artists. I've never heard the Aretha story, nor have I ever seen that sensuous closeup of Annie's beautiful, colorful self singing so obviously personally to me (and every viewer - I get why it's your favorite). Really enjoyed this, and look forward anxiously your next mini-doc episode, hoping it breaks my heart, again!

The Kinks are classic.

Where have all the good times gone?

Always disappointing to see "Muswell Hillbillies" passed over.

Just LOVED the Kinks....in my teens...and NOW...

As a kid born in 1969 who took an early and enduring interest in music, the Kinks' records has always bee part of my life. When I listen back I hear songs that recall my grade school days and every bit of my life after. By my college years I'd acquired friends who were musicians, sound engineers, and the like. It was sitting around in basements after the bar, spinning records with pro musicians/engineers/hangers on, that my lifelong devotion seemed validated by the high regard all my close music friends had for the Kinks. It brings me great comfort and joy to know people who put Kinks records on. Thanks for this.

God save the Kinks!❤

I still love their Christmas song ! Great shit. Thanks Kinks you the band 👍✌️

Excellent job! I was the guy who discovered the Autumn Almanac hidden amazement, so thank you for sharing it.

This is an awesome video, thanks for creating this! I got some new facts from one of my fav bands ever (next to Beatles and Zep)

Thank you for the days.....

After hundreds of views of the music video (for awhile, my wife asked me to play it for her every day), I have connected that cliff-top embrace from Wuthering Heights to the fabulous, gently rotating, can't-let-you-go clench in "Don't Give Up" - brilliantly directed by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. Not claiming these guys were thinking of that, but still, I'm struck by it! They deserve more love!

700 songs in their catalog- with 20 new ones coming- GSTK!

Great video.

Met Ray a couple of times after gigs. He even kissed my wife on the cheek much to her surprise. Seen the Kinks perform many times.

Browsing through NPR's site last night, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the Shangri-las, who died just last month at 75. The short accompanying bio noted that she was only 15 when she and her high school friends first recorded "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - and who didn't love that one? Apparently, she felt driven out of the music business in 1968 due to her disillusion over behind-the-scenes corruption and improper treatment. It was good to read of her enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and a second-chance career in music, decades later. You'll always be "The Leader of the Pack" to me, Mary. Thanks for the memories, Tim.

What a great excuse to wander through Stiff Records and the Brill Building! I wished you could have stopped for a few hours in each! But who can complain about the extended listen to "Be My Baby"? One of the greatest records of all time, it is something I remind myself of every time I'm listening to how Phil messed up the Beatles (not to mention poor Veronica). Was "Baby" Phil speaking directly to Ronnie? There's so much to wonder about, maybe the Bathroom Mat will have some answers one day - thanks, Tim!

As a fifty year old American male,I hate people don’t give any credit to muswell hillbillies and soap opera .my daughter is twenty and she loves both albums

If I hadn't already been exposed to your kind heart, Tim, I would have felt a twinge of sarcasm in this one! But of course not, it's another slice of Canadian/American rock history - the band being Canadian and their money American. This was fun! Riff rock it surely is, but my wife and I had signed up for the 1973 Summer concert series sponsored by Radio 104 at the ornate old Warner Theater in Washington DC - each show was on a Friday night and tickets were $1.04. "Up and Coming" acts were featured and we saw Tom Petty touring behind ""Break Down", City Boy, The Tubes, and among others, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Radio 104 had been playing their first album all week. The band played every cut straight through, opening with "Gimme Your Money, Please". They were loud, clean, and crunchy - I remember the whole stage seemed to bounce up and down with them. The encore was "American Woman" and Randy played a long, smooth and snakey lead over the riff. Our enthusiasm waned over a short time, but we have great memories of that first live show! Thanks!