YouTube video: Andrew Sandoval joins Jason Barnard to talk about THE KINKS – ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT, The Day-By-Day Story Pt 1: 1940-1971, the mammoth new book he co-authored with the original researcher Doug Hinman. This is the most comprehensive record of the Kinks’ early career ever assembled.
Andrew and Jason cover what it actually took to document The Kinks, from chasing down Shel Talmy’s original studio invoices (Pye Records kept almost no paperwork). They dig into Ray Davies’ songwriting arc, the commercial failure of Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur, the on-stage fight in Cardiff that nearly ended the band in 1965, and the years of visa problems that kept the Kinks out of America. There’s also a discussion of Ray’s unreleased material that were better than most bands’ released work, why Ray refused to release Pictures in the Sand for decades, and how the Granada Television deal that funded Arthur eventually fell apart.
The book is self-published and sold exclusively through Beatland Books
