Something Else By The Kinks. By James Pomeroy. James Pomeroy March 9, 1968 This is the best album the Kinks have yet made, but, paradoxically, may be the last they will release in this country.

The title, Something Else, cleverly suggested both a modest undertaking and a major piece of work. It’s now renowned as one of the finest albums of an era heavy with all-time classics.

The parade of Kinks albums from Kink Kontroversy (1965) through Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround (1970) offer a near flawless body of work, and Something Else by the Kinks proved to be one ...

In 1969 Rolling Stone announced, "The Kinks have arrived." And so they had, selling out four nights at L.A.'s Whiskey A Go Go and breaking nearly every attendance record in that infamous club's ...

“Death of a Clown” (Something Else by the Kinks, 1967) At a post-show party one night, Dave Davies, exhausted by the brutal schedule he and the Kinks were trying to maintain at the time, ...

The Kinks were heading into uncharted territory in the Sixties. The London rockers blew up in the early days of the British ...

Something Else by the Kinks (1967) Dave had written and sung lead on several songs on the Kinks’ early albums, but his three contributions to Something Else mark his true arrival as a songwriter.

The tracks are taken from the classic original Kinks albums including: Face To Face, The Kink Kontroversy, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Versus Powerman and The ...

The guitarist and songwriter is celebrating 60 years with the Kinks. ... The change, it’s all about you again. Life just keeps changing into something else, which I’m glad to say is good.

The song, “Death of a Clown”, was released as Davies’ first solo single, although it was also included on The Kinks album Something Else by The Kinks.