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The Kinks Are Back! They're Working On A Brand New Album


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It seems like one of the rock world's most unlikely band reunions is finally happening as The Kinks frontman Ray Davies announces that he, his brother and guitarist Dave, and original drummer Mick Avory are reuniting in the studio for a brand new album more than twenty years since the band's last record.

Ray Davies of The Kinks outside BBC Radio 2 studiosRay Davies of The Kinks outside BBC Radio 2 studios

The Kinks' dissolution was rife with tension as their music started to lose traction in the late sixties and then again in the late eighties. Towards the end of it. Dave and Mick were completely at odds and refused to work with each other again. Ray Davies claims to have turned all that around, however, and have got them both in the studio together making an album.

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Six Band Reunions We'd Love To See In 2017


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The trend of big bands and artists from yesteryear making a comeback and touring old albums showed no sign of slowing down in 2016. Even small-to-medium sized acts have opted to coin it in and perform classic albums to their devotees. Mortgages have to be paid somehow.

And yet, there are a surprising number of huge bands who have thusfar resisted the temptation to get back together. Here are six bands we’d love to announce a reunion in 2017.

The White StripesThe White Stripes performing in Leeds in 2007

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Noel Gallagher Brands Apple Music 'Arrogant' And 'Orwellian'


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Noel Gallagher has made his feelings pretty clear regarding Apple’s new streaming service ‘Apple Music'. The former Oasis member has called Apple’s latest venture ‘arrogant’ and added that the service's radio feature was ‘some sort of George Orwell shit’

Noel GallagherNoel Gallagher has not signed up for his Apple Music trial.

Speaking to the Varvet International podcast Gallagher said, “Apple Music, world radio: is that some sort of George Orwell shit going on? How can you be so arrogant that you can say, ‘We now fucking own world radio.’”

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The Libertines' Highly Praised Hyde Park Gig Interrupted By Surging Fans


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The Libertines' first reunion gig on English soil got off to a rocky start when overzealous fans surged towards the stage whilst the band performed at the British Summer Time gig in Hyde Park, London. This is the first time in four years the group has performed in the capital and their appearance has been praised by critics.

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Pete Doherty performing with The Libertines in Glasgow last week.

Read More: The Libertines Reunited For Hit Laden Hyde Park Warm Up In Glasgow.

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The Kinks Ray Davies Misses Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction Following Sister's Death


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Co-founder and frontman of The Kinks, Ray Davies, was unable to attend his induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame because his sister Joyce passed away. The ceremony took place on Thursday June 12 in New York City and although Davies couldn’t be there in person he did accept the honour via video link.

Ray Davies The Kinks Davies, pictured outside the BBC Radio 2 studios in London, was unable to attend the ceremony in New York City due to the death of his sister

Davies also posted on his Facebook page: “I am profoundly honoured to have been inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame and disappointed not to have been at the event in New York but I felt it necessary to be near my family at this sad time of my sisters (sic) funeral.”

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The Kinks Reuniting For 50th Anniversary? Ray Davies Courts Rumours


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This year marks the 50th anniversary of British Invasion rock band The Kinks and fans are waiting with baited breath to see whether brothers Ray and Dave Davies will reunite the group. Davies has told music magazine Uncut that a reunion is "as close as it's ever been to happening."

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Ray Davies: The Kinks Could Reunite This Year.

Dave Davies, who suffered a stroke in 2004, explained that he'd caught up with his brother last summer in a London pub, where they chatted about the possibility of reforming the band for their 50th anniversary. "I said to Ray I thought that it'd be a great shame if we don't try and do something," he told Uncut. "I don't think our love has diminished. I think the stage-play has played itself out a bit, the pretence and the acting. I think it's time reality took over, and started directing the last years of [...] whatever it is. It's like Cain and Abel."

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The Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy: Deluxe Edition Album Review


So much has been written about The Kinks since their conception back in 1964 that documenting a warts and all history would be an arduous task, although Doug Hinman's 2004 biography 'All Day And All Of The Night' makes a sterling attempt. Highly publicised inter-band squabbles, fights with authority, nervous breakdowns and in their latter period, a revolving door of band members only adds to the legacy of arguably one of the most unique and innovative bands to emerge from the London scene of the 1960s.

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The Kinks, Picture Book Album Review


Review of The Kink's album Picture Book released through Sanctuary.

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