Category: The Kinks

33 1/3 All-time Bestsellers!

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Last year, we posted the top ten bestsellers of 2014 but we thought you might like to know the ALL TIME greatest hits in the 33 1/3 series. Congratulations to Carl and Celine! #1 Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson (Volume 52). #2 Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim Cooper (Volume 29). #3 The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street by Bill Janovitz (Volume 18). #4 Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique by Dan LeRoy (Volume 30). #5 Radiohead’s OK Computer by Dai Griffiths…

The 33 1/3 Author Q&A: Andy Miller

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Last week, we featured The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society 33 1/3 author Andy Miller taking a second look at the album, and his book, on the 45th anniversary of the album’s release. Now we sit Andy down for a more personal chat. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the author of the fourth ever 33 1/3, Andy Miller, a reader, author and editor of books. He sings and plays guitar with the Gene Clark Five, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Times, the Guardian, Esquire…

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society at 45

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Andy Miller, author of the Kinks 33 1/3 (#4 in the series) on the 45th anniversary of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. November 22nd 2013, marked four and a half decades since Pye Records grudgingly released The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, an LP the Kinks’ leader Ray Davies would subsequently describe as “the most successful flop of all time.” Yet when that same Ray Davies, now aged 68, stood on stage at the Olympic stadium in East London last summer and sang the deathless…