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It’s been 60 years since Muswell Hill brothers Ray and Dave Davies – then 19 and 15 respectively – formed The Kinks. What is now known as the ‘catalogue’ division of record companies love an anniversary, particularly when fans of the band are likely to be edging into pensionable disposable-income territory. And so, a new compilation titled The Journey has

40 years ago WORT was still a young radio station, with studios on Winnebago Street and the frequency at 89.7 FM. Back then every Saturday, sandwiched between Jah Tony and Reasonable Facsimile” played the newest of the new on his show New Needles. His program captured the zeitgeist of a special time when “new music” was New Music: experimental, revolutionary, and certainly a departure from much of the past – a far cry from today, when everything under the sun has already been done...