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Post by HollyH on Sept 25, 2009 10:04:18 GMT -5
September 25, 1973-- Having canceled the last date of a brief UK tour to fly to New York, Ray delivers the master tapes for Preservation Act I to RCA headquarters. It will be released simulataneously in the UK and the US on November 16th. It will reach a disappointing #177 on the US charts and won't chart at all in the UK.
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Post by Smiley on Sept 25, 2009 16:42:45 GMT -5
It was MmmmMmmmMmMmmmMmmmmm good to me!
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Post by HollyH on Sept 26, 2009 17:29:26 GMT -5
My apologies, everyone -- I went away for the weekend and forgot to bring my Kinks Bible with me! I promise I'll fill in September 26 and 27 when I get home on Monday....
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Post by Iñakink on Sept 27, 2009 2:53:42 GMT -5
If you want I can do it.
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Post by HollyH on Sept 27, 2009 11:59:27 GMT -5
I had some all planned out -- but perhaps you've picked out the same ones! Go ahead and post whatever you can find for September 26 and 27th. I will fill in when I get home...
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Post by Iñakink on Sept 27, 2009 13:48:35 GMT -5
Nah, then I prefer to wait.
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Post by HollyH on Sept 28, 2009 11:55:41 GMT -5
September 26, 1980--Dave Davies' first solo album, titled Dave Davies, is finally released in the UK. The previous July, it had been released in the US with a different cover and different title, AFL1-3603.
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Post by HollyH on Sept 28, 2009 12:07:23 GMT -5
September 27, 1985-- Hurricane Gloria hits New York City. Ray Davies, who is living in New York at this period, filters this experience into the song "Lost and Found," which will appear on next year's album Think Visual.
A certain Kinks fan is living only seven blocks away from Ray at the time, but has no idea.
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Post by Smiley on Sept 28, 2009 12:10:50 GMT -5
September 26, 1980--Dave Davies' first solo album, titled Dave Davies, is finally released in the UK. The previous July, it had been released in the US with a different cover and different title. AFL1-3603. So freeking cool! Hearing those songs live we're mind-blowing! We went out an bought Hi-Top, White Nike trainers (gymshoes) just like Dave's.
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Post by HollyH on Sept 28, 2009 12:29:53 GMT -5
September 28, 1966-- The Kinks refuse to perform their scheduled concert at the Hit House in Copenhagen, saying that the venue is "unsuitable." The promoters confiscate their equipment, and the band barely recovers it in time to fly to Sweden for 2 concerts booked the next day.
The Scandinavian Musicians Union subsequently bans Kinks concerts. The band will not return to Scandinavia until the summer of 1968, when -- their popularity dismally low -- the only venues they can book are a series of Swedish outdoor public parks.
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Post by Iñakink on Sept 28, 2009 13:48:44 GMT -5
I was missing them!
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Post by HollyH on Sept 29, 2009 9:20:18 GMT -5
September 29, 1994--Appearing on Top of the Pops, the Kinks help TOTP celebrate its 30th anniversary by performing once again their own 30-year-old song "You Really Got Me." Appropriately, the segment begins in black-and-white and fades into full color.
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Post by HollyH on Sept 30, 2009 8:23:30 GMT -5
September 30, 1964--The Kinks fly to Glasgow for the first night of the Billy J. Kramer tour. Along with the Kinks, support acts include the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Nashville Teens. During the Kinks' set, enthusiastic fans drag Dave Davies into the audience, and he cuts his hand.
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Post by HollyH on Oct 1, 2009 16:19:32 GMT -5
October 1, 1978--The Kinks play the Hammersmith Odeon in London, to less than critical acclaim. NME's Graham Lock describes them as "a second-rate Heavy Metal band living on past glories..."; Melody Maker's Penny Valentine says "The Kinks are set in aspic, a minor British institution, and that's where they will remain"; Music Week's Chris White calls the concert "an evening of semi-nostalgia for many of the rather old 'teenagers' in the audience."
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Post by HollyH on Oct 2, 2009 9:16:27 GMT -5
October 2, 1964--The Kinks' debut album -- titled (what else?) The Kinks -- is released by Pye Records n the UK. It will soon soar to #4 on the UK album charts.
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