the kinks

you really got me?A British rockRayand brother Dave Davies Kinks Muswell Hill in 1964, the band is based in north London. A British invasion bands as classified in the United States, the Kinks most important and influential of the stone age, is recognized as one of action. His head and music, blue British music hall, folk, and country styles, including, are affected. Ray Davis (dialogue, rhythm guitar) and Dave Davies (lead guitar, chat) groups run in 32 years as a member. Original members Pete Quaife (bass guitar, chat) and Mick Avory (drums and accidents), John Dalton in 1969 and Bob Henrit amended in 1984, respectively. Dalton in turn in 1978 by Jim Rodford changed. Keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, with the mid-1960s with the band during studio sessions. Then, keyboardists John Gosling and Ian Gibbons for, including full-time members.

Kinks first came to fame in 1964 with their third single, "You really understand me", written by Ray Davies. It was an international hit, both in the UK charts and top 10 in the United States reached. The mid-1960s and early 1970s trade between the group and continue the successful singles and LPs severe, and for the song and album name, British culture and life style that reflects the vision of style 'review' Ray Davies because the writing is achieved. As the album's face, and face few, Kinks Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola vs. Powerman and Moneygoround, and Muswell Hillbillies, together with their single, this recording of the era's most influential one is considered. The next album Kinks 'success has even less idea of the theater, but during the late 1970s and early 1980s experienced the rise of the band, Van Halen, drink, arts groups and the Pretenders cover their tracks, to help improve the Kinks' record sales. I do like the Britpop band's 1990 major oasis Blurand impact was quoted as saying. The Kinks 1996 rupture, the commercial failure of their latest album and the brothers a little creative tension between the results of Davis.
Kinks in the U.S. Billboard chart has five top 10 individuals. Top 40 in nine albums charted them. England, seventeen top 20 singles and five top 10 albums the group. their four albums certified gold by the RIAA has. In addition to many awards, he "distinguished services to British music" Novello Award theIvor to be accepted. In 1990, their first year of eligibility, all four original band members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included. Kinks in November 2005 the UK Music Hall of Fame was induced. Pete Quaife died in June 2010.

The Byrds

Turn! Turn! Turn!.........The Byrds are the American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The group has gone through many lineup changes throughout its existence, with singer Roger McGuinn (aka Jim McGuinn) other members of a single uniform until disbanding in 1973. Although they have been a huge commercial success of contemporaries like The Beatles, Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones in a short period (1965-1966), The Byrds today by critics as one of the the most influential music of the 1960s. Initially, they pioneered the genre of folk rock, influenced the Beatles' uniform and other British invasion groups of contemporary music and traditionalfolk. When developed in the 1960s, the group also had influence in originatingpsychedelic rock, body rock, and rock. In addition, the signature blend of singing in a band clearly influenced and continues to consistently jangly twelve string Rickenbacker guitar McGuinn on folk music to date Of the original songsMusic is more durable. Including their version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn" Pete Seeger's Turn! Play! (To everything there is a season) "and the original order was written," I will feel good a whole lot more, Eight Miles High .....So You Want to Be Rock n 'Roll Star, "" Ballad of Easy Rider "and" Chestnut Mare. "

Year initial duration of the line-up of Jim McGuinn of The Byrds (guitar, vocals), Gene Clark (small drums, vocals), David Crosby (rhythm guitar, vocals), Chris Hillman (bass, vocals) and MichaelClarke (drums). However, this version of the strip is relatively short and early in 1966, Clark had to leave because of problems with anxiety and isolation increased in the group. The Byrds by the end of the quarter in 1967, when Crosby and Clarke also left the group.McGuinn and Hillman decided to recruit new members, including country rock pioneer Gram Parsons, but in late 1968, Hillman and Parsons also left the group. McGuinn, Roger is now renamed after the temptations of religion Subud, was selected to reconstruct the composition of the group and between 1968 and 1973, he crossed out the new incarnation of The Byrds, with guitarist Clarence White among others. McGuinn dissolution of the current line up in early 1973 to make way for the meetings of the original quintet. The latest album "Byrds was released in March 1973, dismantled the team again soon.
Some former band members will be successful careers of their own, both as a solo artist or as part of a group, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and The Desert Rose Band. In late 1980, Gene Clark and Michael Clarke both touring Byrds, caused a legal challenge of McGuinn, Crosby, Hillman and rights in the name of the band. Accordingly, McGuinn, Crosby, Hillman and conducted a series like The Byrds reunionconcerts between 1988 and 1990 and also recorded four songs from the new Byrds. On January 16, 1991, The Byrds inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an occasion that saw the team members played together last time.McGuinn, Crosby, Hillman and still active, but Gene Clark died of a heart attack in 1991, and Michael Clarke died of liver failure in 1993.

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008) was the stage name for Ellas Otha Bates, an American rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Clash,The Yardbirds, and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundationand a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host. "I did two songs and he got mad," Bo Diddley later recalled. "Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him. Said that I wouldn't last six months". The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but when he appeared on stage, he sang "Bo Diddley" instead. This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.

The request came about because Sullivan's people heard Diddley casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room. Diddley's accounts of the event were inconsistent. 
Chess included Diddley's recording of "Sixteen Tons" on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960. 
He continued to have hits through the rest of the 1950s and even the 1960s, including "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He released a string of albums whose titles, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel, were bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley. Although he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), he rarely tailored his compositions to teenage concerns.
In 1963, he starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The Rolling Stones, still barely known outside London at that time, appeared as a supporting act on the same bill.
In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit forMickey & Sylvia in 1957. 
Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including "The Duchess" Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones (aka "Lady Bo"), Cornelia Redmond (aka Cookie), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career. He also set up one of the first home recording studios.
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