Kat’s Hidden Camera 6/21/16: The Kinks in 1970 performing “Lola”


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CHECK IT OUT: The Kinks in 1970 performing “Lola” on England’s Top Of The Pops:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAY DAVIES!!! – (06/21/2016)

Happy Birthday to Kinks co-founder and main songwriter Ray Davies who turns 72 today (June 21st)!!! In 2014, Davies was inducted into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame, but was unable to attend due to the then-recent death of his sister Joyce. Davies and younger brother and Kinks co-founding guitarist Dave Davies are still in tentative talks to reunite in celebration of the band’s — now-long passed — 50th anniversary, but, as usual, accounts of where the pair are at differ with each new report.

In 2010, Davies released his star-studded album of duets featuring over a dozen remakes of his Kinks classics, called See My Friends – Ray Davies & Special Guests. Highlights on the set include his re-recording with Bruce Springsteen of the 1981 Give The People What They Want track “Better Things,” and the Kinks’ 1964 breakthrough hit “You Really Got Me” with Metallica. Also joining Davies on the album are Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora on “Celluloid Heroes,” Jackson Browne on “Waterloo Sunset,” Billy Corgan for a medley of “All Day And All Of The Night/Destroyer,” and the late Alex Chilton — in his final studio recording — tackling “‘Til The End Of The Day.”

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