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Kinks- One for the Road 45th Anniversary- Ray Davies

“I’m probably the worst musician in the band,” admits Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio on the forty-fifth anniversary of The Kinks live album “One for the Road”. “They’re very good players, and this record  shows them off as players as well.” Part one of my classic rock interview.

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Kinks- Picture Book- London 1996

“The Kinks are a really good live band. We’re not so keen on recording studios,” Ray Davies told me. Maybe that’s why the Kinks have owned their own studio in London for so long, in order to minimize  many of the irritants from recording in public facilities for hire. Whatever the case, this live-in-the-studio version […]

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Kinks- One for the Road 45th Anniversary- Ray Davies 5-25

The Poet Laureate of Rock, Ray Davies of The Kinks, joins me In the Studio to answer many more questions here  the week of May 25, framed by lively versions of “All Day and All of the Night”, “Lola”, “Celluloid Heroes”, “You Really Got Me”, “Victoria”, “Picture Book”, and others.

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Kinks- Low Budget- Sir Ray Davies

With “Low Budget”, the Kinks’ July 1979 biggest seller in their long storied career, it becomes apparent that The Kinks were the ultimate slacker band. Led by the Poet Laureate of Rock, my guest Sir Ray Davies, it certainly wasn’t for lack of creative brilliance, but for a dearth of ambition.

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Kinks- Misfits- Ray Davies

Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio for their late Seventies rock revitalization which started with “Sleepwalker” and continued into May 1978’s “Misfits”.

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Kinks- To the Bone pt 2- Ray Davies

Ray Davies of the seminal London band The Kinks, with the conclusion of my interview in conjunction with their live & unplugged “best of” collection, “To the Bone”.

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The Pretenders 45th Anniversary- Chrissie Hynde

We had never met anyone in rock music quite like The Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde, and honestly in the  forty years since, I still haven’t…I have Ms. Hynde here to speak for herself In the Studio  about The Pretenders/ Pretenders II, one of rock’s most important one-two Post-punk punches.

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Def Leppard- Yeah! (covers album)- Joe Elliott, Phil Collen

In the case of Def Leppard, now celebrating forty-five years since the Sheffield, England band’s introductory “On Through the Night” was released in March 1980, anyone wishing to understand where they come from musically would do well to listen here to my guests Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott and lead guitarist Phil Collen. The tunestack on “Yeah!” is a virtual look at the playlists of BBC Radio One and Radio Luxembourg circa 1973.