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Bowie writes liner notes to ‘definitive’ new Kinks collection
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 12 September 2014
Everyone loves The Kinks, don’t they? Yes, yes they do, which is why EVERYone will be pleased to hear that Sony nostalgia division Legacy is releasing a fiftieth anniversary compilation of the band’s greatest hits.
Hitting shops on 13 Oct, ‘The Essential Kinks’ contains over 100 singles, alternate takes, rarities and the like, an extra 26 never-released tracks, and interviews with the band over the years.
Excitingly, David Bowie has done the liner notes for it, and writes: “I’ve never heard a Kinks song that I didn’t like. Of course, from their noisy and brash beginnings, the Kinks have come to stand for some of the most enduring and heart-clutching pop of all time. They are in the gut of every British songwriter who followed them and are indisputably a cornerstone of everything pop and rock. I love em. The world loves em”.
See? If Bowie says it, it is so.
Meanwhile, on 10 Nov, Legacy will follow all that with a deluxe reissue of The Kinks’ 1971 LP ‘Muswell Hillbillies’, all remastered and sparkling new, and carrying an additional nine bonus tracks. And with that in mind, here’s a bit of an iffy non-official rip of Ray, Dave et al playing the ‘Muswell Hillbillies’ title track live on TV in 1978:
