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Post by pete1951 on Mar 7, 2024 14:40:28 GMT
BBC Radio 4 last Saturday at 3.00pm. Arthur ( or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Writing (partly ) by Ray Davis this is a dramatised version of their 1969 LP of the same name. Lots of bits of Kinks/Davis songs set around the the 50-60s and what happened to the Davis family when Rays sister emigrated to Australia.
Pete
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 7, 2024 20:02:00 GMT
pete1951,
hoping that show gets across the pond. seems odd how so many musical careers get stymied by something as discordant as politics?
mitchfit
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Post by tomgiemza on Mar 7, 2024 22:28:20 GMT
Ray Davies is one of my favourite songwriters.
Mitchfit, as you mentioned going across the pond, Ray wrote a great song about Kinks' first trip across it:
They called us The Invaders
Like creatures from the black lagoon
Said that we were dangerous
Like space invaders from the moon
We just came to see the world
And entertain America
We just came to get a break
But we turned into enemies of the state
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 8, 2024 21:41:42 GMT
tomgiemza,
perhaps Sir Davies can look back and take solace in the fact that he was not singled out for any extra disdain than most world governments now hold for those who allowed them their power, yet dare to disagree with anything at all they promote?
mitchfit
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