Even by the early ’60s, B-sides still hardly mattered. Think of some of the biggest hits of the day—Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party,” Del Shannon’s “Runaway,” the Four Seasons’ “Sherry,” even Chubby Checker’s “The Twist”—and chances are, unless you’re likethat guy ...
“Concrete and Clay” was one of the great one-shots of theBritish Invasion. The only bandmembers to ever chart again were the added session guys – guitarist Russ Ballard and drummer Bob Henrit – later of Argent and the Kinks.
The Kinks had gotten around this in their song ‘Lola’ by swapping out ‘Coca-Cola’ for ‘cherry cola’, but there was no way to edit ‘McDonalds’ out of this one. Friedman recalls, ‘I thought ‘McDonald’s Girl’ was a surefire hit. It was released by CBS Records in the UK....
“These are first-day kinks. We’ll fix them,” Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said. Aside from the containment effort, Duterte declared all of the Philippines in a state of calamity for six months to allow faster releases of emergency funds. While the virus can be deadly, par...
Even the Ford Explorer, once the reliability equivalent of a trust fall gone wrong, has clawed its way into “recommended” status. So, if you’re eyeing a brand-new model, maybe give it a couple of years to work out the kinks – let someone else beta test it for you. Ford ...
'The Pretenders' The Pretenders (1980): Chrissie Hynde was a new-school punk with a classic-rock heart. She loved the Kinks as much as she loved the Sex Pistols, and on the Pretenders' stinging debut she comes off like the biggest badass on the planet. ...
The Kinks, Lola (1970) Pye / Reprise The Kinks, "Lola" (1970) After a couple of commercially stagnant years, the Kinks returned to the Top 10 with a hit about a young man's romantic encounter with a transvestite (buried in the middle of a concept album about the evils of the music...
The backbone of the Cash Money sound, Fresh relied heavily on the Roland TR-808, MPC2000 and E-mu SP-1200 as his tools of the trade. The New Orleans super-producer had already worked out his kinks and sharpened his formula by the turn of the millennium, providing early-career hits for...
the Stranglers were running low on fresh ideas at this late stage in their career (with Cornwell about to quit the group), they put out an inspired cover to rank alongside their versions of the Kinks’ “All Day and All of the Night” and Dionne Warwick’s “Walk on By.”–Adam ...
aI have so many kinks in my back now. 我现在有许多纠缠在我的后面。[translate] ademonstrated 展示[translate] aHold the ninja in the air and let him get hit by two balls from the Crimson Danger 举行ninja在天空中并且让他由二个球得到命中从绯红色危险[translate]...