HELP A KINKS FAN

[dada]

hey, i'm a teenager french kinks fan ( my english is not very perfect)
i need your help
i have an paper to do on the influence of the rock music on the society
my party is the british invasion and the rock of the 60's
i need your help please !

god save the kinks ^^ ;D

[rose]

hello dada!

There is a great collection of articles in :

POPULAR MUSIC and SOCIETY ISSN 0300-7766

VOLUME 29 MAY 2006 (This volume is devoted to THE KINKS)

This academic journal series can be found in a library listed in the AMERICAN HUMANITIES INDEX

They have many other volumes covering your topic as well. Hope this helps for a start. GOOD LUCK!

[billmalley]

When I was in the 8th grade, I submitted a book report based on "Our Own Story by The Rolling Stones". I gave the 'gol durn' report everything I had and I thought it was pretty good. I received a 'B' for my effort.

Turns out, my best friend at the time also had that same teacher for English - but a different class - and he told me about a week later that the teacher had used my book report in his class as an object of light ridicule as an example of inappropriate subject matter. The teacher told my friend's class that she gave me the 'B' out of sympathy.

This would have been the late Fall of 1965 - right around the time of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and leading up to "December's Children".

This has been a round-a-bout way of saying... my, my how things have changed.

Good luck, dada! You're fortunate to be living in modern times!

[TAG]

dada said:

hey, i'm a teenager french kinks fan ( my english is not very perfect)
i need your help
i have an paper to do on the influence of the rock music on the society
my party is the british invasion and the rock of the 60's
i need your help please !

god save the kinks ^^ ;D

Hello dada... just know that if you include the Kinks in this paper you must realize that the dirty sounding guitar on "You Really Got Me" forever changed the sound of rock. Those spitfire chords hacked into new rock territory. It was so rebellious and free... it grabbed all the kids by the soul... that sound shook the music industry and influenced pop culture in the most extreme way in 1964.

Dave's long hair was also a bone of contention in society at the time. His guitar sound was raunchier than every other band's guitar sound, and his hair was longer than all the other guitarists and singers... with the exception of maybe Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones (who you also have to mention and research... he had a sweeping effect on fashion and attitude). Good luck!

[ilesofsmiles]

Tres Bein... Good Luck with your paper. ;D

Here is the link to the Un-Official KinKs website
(a great source of all things Kinks) which also has links to dozens more.
www.kinks.it.rit.edu/

[HollyH]

Dada, you may already know about this...but at one point John Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, and people all throughout the Southern US burned their albums in protest. Here's a link to an article about it: www.newsoftheodd.com/article1012.html

[darius]

Thanks !
You give me a lot of ideas i continu to search
during my test, i gonna put a best of the sixties
i wanna put :
the kinks : picture book, i'm not like anyboy else, you really got me & autumn almanac
the zombies : time of the season
beach boys : i get around, dance dance dance, surfin safari, do you wanna dance
beatles : norvegian wood, i should have known better, i wanna hold your hand
rolling stones : satisfaction, start me up
and maybe the birds or the small faces
if you have other ideas...

[HollyH]

Animals -- We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Donovan -- Catch the Wind
Yardbirds -- Shapes of Things
Small Faces -- Itchycoo Park
Manfred Mann -- Pretty Flamingo
The Who -- My Generation

just a few that really express the culture change of the 60s