Celluloid heroes is a brilliant, heartbreaking song about fame, and one of the best songs ever written about Hollywood. Ray Davies' sensitive vocals gives the song so much poignancy.
I love music !!! As I like to tell people, everything from Miles Davis to the Pistols. But I really, really love the Kinks. God Bless Ray, Dave and Mick Avory and RIP Peter !!!
When my sister-in-law’s two boys were small, I saw the older one hug his little brother and knock him down within the exact same motion. I always thought that moment encapsulated the sibling relationship perfectly.
Love these guys and have since You Really Got Me! Bought Arthur in the first week it came out and listened to it about 100 times in a row. Kinks were in Left Field right away in the glorious Sixties. Nobody compared!
Same here. The Arthur album permanently shaped my view of the world. Ray n Dave's dad's feeling about social standing and money made it to nyc many years later. Still proudly hold the same beliefs. Thank You Mr Davies, Dave and Ray. ❤
They had the craziest "Brotherly" hate/love musician-relationship. I keep hoping someday there will be a movie about them. It would be EPIC! btw.... First band I ever saw live, 1982. No other rock and roll story compares.
Truly one of the best rock bands ever, I love the Kinks!!! I love Ray and Dave Davies, this song is Dave’s masterpiece, he said he wrote it, looking out the window of his Hollywood Blvd. motel room. It’s perfection 👍🏻🙌👍🏻👍🏻
@alabhaois Not by us but definitely underrated by the business. You always hear people discussing The Doors, Stones, ACDC, Beatles etc but never are the Kinks mentioned in the "greatest" debates.
For me the only song that rivals the beauty of Celluloid Heroes is Waterloo Sunset. The Kinks Kronikles got me hooked and I have been a fan ever since. No one made beautiful melancholy like the Kinks. And they could rock too.
When they came out and 64, I was nine years old. It was always the Beatles, the kinks, and Dave Clark five. And the stones.But I always love the kinks.
@@alabhaois Clark is still alive. He owns the rights to his music and kept them off the market for decades. I have recently heard their music again so he must have started selling it. He is in his 80s and in poor heath. The sax man fell and broke his neck and died. Don't know if any others survive. See excellent PBS special on their induction to the Hall of Fame with Tom Hanks drooling all over them. My favorite band of the British Invasion. Also Paul Revere who has died.
Just found this beauty, lovely performances. I have always loved celluloid heroes ever since it came out. I saw the Kinks in 72 and 86 and they were really good both times.
What an amazing performance on Jay Leno! You have to realize that Ray Davies was 49 and Dave Davies was 46 at the time. They were as cool, fresh, and energetic as ever!
I was fortunate to see The Kinks on a free concert in Madrid (1986). One of the best concerts i ever been. The opening song was "Around the Dial", the one that i used as the intro to my radio shows.
Ray was 50 here Dave 46. They figured out early on as performers that their brotherly squabbles kept them in the press.. media. Even in this song they're smiling at each other. Both have said the hosility was grossly exaggerated. They are 4 yrs apart in age and Ray admits liked things his way or else. Dave said it actually helped their music style and choices. You'll notice most pics of them from early days on... they are standing side by side. As Dave says today...he's my brother and you always stick with family.
@@ann275 I have no doubt Ray did put Dave through hell physically and mentally since they were kids. I definitely have always thought Dave is the bigger better man for never having an interview where is asked about their squabbles ends with how much he will always love his only brother. I likely worded my post wrong. I meant the media 100% played off their fights for tabloid tv exploitation.
Dave Davies is one of the most underrated guitarists around. He invented distortion by cutting the speaker in his amp with a razor blade. It was pure genius.
I saw them on the tour to support the album Phobia around this time. Ironically, every song on Phobia is incredible except Hatred I hate it! Lol but gotta love the Kinks. Best pop band ever
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Ray and Dave have made peace. From a BBC interview yesterday: Q: Will the KINKS Reform for the 50th Anniversary? A: ( Dave) Me and Ray get on well now ,we love each other and we WILL be doing something.
Oh, so would I! In fact I'm setting aside money just for that possibility. But the "doing something" that Dave mentioned is most likely won't be a whole concert. More likely a new track or two. Or an appearance on a TV show together. And i'm not at all sure that Mick is on board with any of it. It could just be Ray and Dave. But whatever the "something' is , I'll be happy.
I wasn't there but I Know somebody that went to all three days of the 1982 US Festival and he and his girlfriend said that the Kinks blew everybody away....That's a Statement.... check out the line up for all three days...some 18 or more bands....went to the 83 US Festival myself....wish I would've went to the 82 to see the Kinks.... Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
I agree with the description, this aint The Kinks. with that said Jeff Watts on drums finest moment was in the movie THAT THING YOU DO playing the drummer in the bar that Skitch was going crazy over.
Muswell Hillbilly Boys same story for this southern Cali Arkie Show Me Chino Hillbilly Boy. Proper allocution be damned.I ain't gonna do it I Told my Kindergarten teacher when whatever it was she thought she could make me do that I wasn't going to do. Ain't is not a word in the English Dictionary I was lectured. The hills I roamed as a child are now mansions and Mcmansions. Prefer my Scottish, Welch, Irish, etcetera ancestry over my Anglo Saxon Romanized ancestry. Croft Castle, Herefordshire. Bless em, last I heard regained ownership. Apparently have somehow been around for a thousand years if true. An amazing accomplishment to survive the wars and the rebellions. Brother against Brother seems the ways of the world. American Revolution and Civil Wars same families from Britain only in a different time and place. Along with of course the Dutch Germans French etcetera.
P.S. The irony, the Brick London Bridge brought to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA by McCulloch. Might as well brought along with it the London Tower. My ancestral relatives didn't fair well at either place. Irony Bridge now a tourist site.
How could Sir Ray possibly not see Dave's love for him when he sees the emotion he puts into his songs? It makes me wonder if Ray is actually an asshole?
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Why the hell doesn't this have more than 100,000 likes? The Kinks are a treasure!
For many years the kinks have blown me away and they still do. LOVE THEM❤❤❤❤❤❤
Celluloid heroes is a brilliant, heartbreaking song about fame, and one of the best songs ever written about Hollywood. Ray Davies' sensitive vocals gives the song so much poignancy.
I love music !!! As I like to tell people, everything from Miles Davis to the Pistols. But I really, really love the Kinks. God Bless Ray, Dave and Mick Avory and RIP Peter !!!
LOVE the Ray and Dave Show!!!❤❤❤
Fabulous performance by Ray and Dave. Their harmonies are among the greatest in rock.
Dave Davies is HIGHLY UNDERATED !!!!
you had me at Dave Davies is HIGH !
He's a well respected man and dedicated follower of fashion.
One of the greatest bands of all time...Ray Davies is a master lyricist!
Nope
His Melodie’s and chord changes are sweet too
One of the greatest songwriters of all times.
The greatest in my opinion. 👏🏻
@@kendallevans4079 You are obviously clueless!
When my sister-in-law’s two boys were small, I saw the older one hug his little brother and knock him down within the exact same motion. I always thought that moment encapsulated the sibling relationship perfectly.
Absolutely love them Ray is a wonderful writer and love is sense of humour
Nice to see the brothers playing together; they are incredible as a duo!
I remember seeing this performance back in the 1990s. At the time I never realized that my favorite band would soon disband.
The lads from Muswell Hill. As relevant today as they were in the 1960’s. Songs all about social commentary. Will always love & respect them. ❤️👌🙌
...Muswell Hill'billies...LOL 🤭
Love these guys and have since You Really Got Me! Bought Arthur in the first week it came out and listened to it about 100 times in a row. Kinks were in Left Field right away in the glorious Sixties. Nobody compared!
Same here.
The Arthur album permanently shaped my view of the world.
Ray n Dave's dad's feeling
about social standing and money made it to nyc many years later.
Still proudly hold the same beliefs.
Thank You Mr Davies, Dave and Ray. ❤
This is the first clip I have seen of Ray and Dave Davies performing as a duo. More, please!
They been rocking for 54+ years and God bless them both.🙏✝️☮️♥️
Ray Davies pure genius and one of my favorite lead singers of all time. He is a great entertainer too
Hey! I wasn't that good. So, ah. because. We're not going to play that one tonight.
They had the craziest "Brotherly" hate/love musician-relationship. I keep hoping someday there will be a movie about them. It would be EPIC! btw.... First band I ever saw live, 1982. No other rock and roll story compares.
The Kinks are one of the most underrated bands in RnR, & Ray Davies has never been given the recognition he deserves as a mastr songwriter.
I was fortunate enough to see the Kinks three times. In England in ‘64, and twice in LA in ‘78 & ‘79. Great band!!!
Lifelong Kinks fan.....and always love to hear the song, "Celluloid Heroes".
their voices sound so good together! like the high/low. perfect
Truly one of the best rock bands ever, I love the Kinks!!! I love Ray and Dave Davies, this song is Dave’s masterpiece, he said he wrote it, looking out the window of his Hollywood Blvd. motel room. It’s perfection 👍🏻🙌👍🏻👍🏻
Absolute genius'.
No other word for them.
So underrated by those who know nothing
Spetacular comment 💥
Best ever possible comment
Except they’re NOT underrated!!
😎
@@alabhaois they are TO THOSE WHO KNOW NOTHING!
@alabhaois Not by us but definitely underrated by the business.
You always hear people discussing The Doors, Stones, ACDC, Beatles etc but never are the Kinks mentioned in the "greatest" debates.
For me the only song that rivals the beauty of Celluloid Heroes is Waterloo Sunset. The Kinks Kronikles got me hooked and I have been a fan ever since. No one made beautiful melancholy like the Kinks. And they could rock too.
i love misfits also
When they came out and 64, I was nine years old. It was always the Beatles, the kinks, and Dave Clark five. And the stones.But I always love the kinks.
Whatever happened to DC5, anyway??
@@alabhaois Clark is still alive. He owns the rights to his music and kept them off the market for decades. I have recently heard their music again so he must have started selling it. He is in his 80s and in poor heath. The sax man fell and broke his neck and died. Don't know if any others survive. See excellent PBS special on their induction to the Hall of Fame with Tom Hanks drooling all over them. My favorite band of the British Invasion. Also Paul Revere who has died.
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Just found this beauty, lovely performances. I have always loved celluloid heroes ever since it came out. I saw the Kinks in 72 and 86 and they were really good both times.
How can so much hatred make me smile so big?
What an amazing performance on Jay Leno! You have to realize that Ray Davies was 49 and Dave Davies was 46 at the time. They were as cool, fresh, and energetic as ever!
So ,so beautiful! Love them both
Wow! What an awesome performance! Perfect!🎸🎤🔥
Now I'm willing to accept this fate
You and me just can't cohabitate! I love that line.
I’ve loved them since I was a little kid ❤
I was 15 in 1964 I've been a fan ever since - current songs I'm listening to today ....holiday romance and around the dial - GSTK!
Ray is the GOAT
So freaking good!
God I wish they would hit the stage together one more time.
These two men are icons.
I was fortunate to see The Kinks on a free concert in Madrid (1986). One of the best concerts i ever been. The opening song was "Around the Dial", the one that i used as the intro to my radio shows.
They sound great!
I love the Kinks... especially Dave
Favorite song?
dave is surely underrated.
Saw his solo act in a small club in Cleveland, Ohio. He killed!
@@user-hu3iy9gz5j pretty much like most all
Nothing makes me happier than the fact that Ray and Dave love each other and are working things out.
Ray was 50 here Dave 46. They figured out early on as performers that their brotherly squabbles kept them in the press.. media. Even in this song they're smiling at each other. Both have said the hosility was grossly exaggerated. They are 4 yrs apart in age and Ray admits liked things his way or else. Dave said it actually helped their music style and choices. You'll notice most pics of them from early days on... they are standing side by side. As Dave says today...he's my brother and you always stick with family.
@@tarnsand440 Ray doesn't look his age here.
@@tarnsand440 I know first hand that their feuds were absolutely not for publicity or show. They were real. Ray put Dave through a lot.
@@ann275 I have no doubt Ray did put Dave through hell physically and mentally since they were kids. I definitely have always thought Dave is the bigger better man for never having an interview where is asked about their squabbles ends with how much he will always love his only brother. I likely worded my post wrong. I meant the media 100% played off their fights for tabloid tv exploitation.
@ann. Dave didn’t along with Mick either. Maybe Dave was the problem.
I miss the tonight show with Jay...
Great to see Ray & Dave together too!
I saw the kinks in 1983 in boulder Colorado and I'm so damn glad I did.
Dave Davies is one of the most underrated guitarists
around. He invented distortion by cutting the speaker in his amp with a razor blade. It was pure genius.
If they didn't really hate each other, they sure played it up during Hatred anyways ! Fine FINE acoustic version of Celluloid Heroes, just beautiful !
Hatred they were strong together, they were brothers whatever feelings they have are intensified. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Brotherly love. I always thought brothers got along but they can be bitter enemies, if they are rivals.
We can only love the kinks ! They are so good !
I love this song... how ironic...
Love these two men
They
Changed my life
My favorite band is always been the Beatles but I got to say I put these guys up there right with them so different but equals
The Kinks are the thinking man’s Beatles.
DAMN I wish I'd seen the Kinks when they were still a thing!
GOD SAVE THE KINKS
Fantastic as always , The kinks
Bravo!
I saw them on the tour to support the album Phobia around this time. Ironically, every song on Phobia is incredible except Hatred
I hate it! Lol but gotta love the Kinks. Best pop band ever
The Kinks, the only. band to make a song about hatred cool!
Bloody ads after less than one minute of Celluloid Heroes !!!
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@@whatsforafters7843 Giving it a shot now, thank you. 🙏
The brothers Davies........nothing better !
Great song! What's for afters? Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back when late night TV was so good
Ray and Dave have made peace. From a BBC interview yesterday:
Q: Will the KINKS Reform for the 50th Anniversary?
A: ( Dave) Me and Ray get on well now ,we love each other and we WILL be doing something.
Tara Pasricha I'll find it and get back to you.
Oh, so would I! In fact I'm setting aside money just for that possibility. But the "doing something" that Dave mentioned is most likely won't be a whole concert. More likely a new track or two. Or an appearance on a TV show together. And i'm not at all sure that Mick is on board with any of it. It could just be Ray and Dave. But whatever the "something' is , I'll be happy.
Oh, I'm so sorry you never got to see the Kinks! Have you seen Ray or Dave individually?
just1again Thr brothers and Mick are reuniting this year for a new album
@@busterthebear6756 still waiting for it.
Am I the only one who noticed the drummer dropping his sticks? Great show though!
After reading about this moment (Underpants on Billy’s head) in Dave Davies’ autobio, I had to see it for myself. Hilarious stuff 👏
Dave Davies changed rock music with his little green amp!
I wasn't there but I Know somebody that went to all three days of the 1982 US Festival and he and his girlfriend said that the Kinks blew everybody away....That's a Statement.... check out the line up for all three days...some 18 or more bands....went to the 83 US Festival myself....wish I would've went to the 82 to see the Kinks.... Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
I’ve seen them multiple times and they always put on a phenomenal show.
I saw the kinks in 93 Kaukauna Wisconsin it was outside by the fox river ✌
"Formed" 29yrs before this show, (tho together as brothers 46yrs:^). It's been another 29yrs. Time for a brotherly reunion.
Brilliant. Wrìter
I have always thought Jukebox Music was a metaphor for what went wrong with their relationship
Interesting.
Check out the version recorded in Zurich in ‘79 - amazing!
Two if the greatest garage sounding bands ever Alice Cooper, and The kinks. Just an opinion of mine
Awesome!
The drummer handled that well.
You saw that too? Lol
He still got the Looks from both Brothers tho'. No matter whatever was said about the Kinks or Ray & Dave Solo, they were always professionals!
Love these songs... Dave... X
Well said, although the brothers seem to be getting on as they sing Hatred. They have sparkles in their eyes.
Exellent
Vicious Love!
Legend has it that 'Dave Nice' of Smashy and Nicey, is based on Dave Davies ;-)
God save the Kinks
God save the Kinks!!!
High level brothers ¡¡¡
Excellent from exUssr!!!!!!!! The greatest people of generation!!!!..
Tongue in cheek song like only they can do it.
I agree with the description, this aint The Kinks. with that said Jeff Watts on drums finest moment was in the movie THAT THING YOU DO playing the drummer in the bar that Skitch was going crazy over.
I did and always will take the Kinks over the Beatles any day!
You and me both daddy.
Without a doubt.
@@williambaxter4628 Thank you son.
By far all alone at the top of the love hate brothers of music.
Muswell Hillbilly Boys same story for this southern Cali Arkie Show Me Chino Hillbilly Boy. Proper allocution be damned.I ain't gonna do it I Told my Kindergarten teacher when whatever it was she thought she could make me do that I wasn't going to do. Ain't is not a word in the English Dictionary I was lectured. The hills I roamed as a child are now mansions and Mcmansions. Prefer my Scottish, Welch, Irish, etcetera ancestry over my Anglo Saxon Romanized ancestry. Croft Castle, Herefordshire. Bless em, last I heard regained ownership. Apparently have somehow been around for a thousand years if true. An amazing accomplishment to survive the wars and the rebellions. Brother against Brother seems the ways of the world. American Revolution and Civil Wars same families from Britain only in a different time and place. Along with of course the Dutch Germans French etcetera.
P.S. The irony, the Brick London Bridge brought to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA by McCulloch. Might as well brought along with it the London Tower. My ancestral relatives didn't fair well at either place. Irony Bridge now a tourist site.
They should have been even bigger if they were not banned for a time from performing in America early on in the British Invasion.
I recently heard Ray Davis say that Dave Davies was smarter than him. I don't know if he meant it.
I doubt he believes it. 😂
I believe Ray just turned 80. Dave is recovering from a stroke.
listening here at 2022/january
1:58 ... another... finger
had no idea the US liked them.
Hatred is definitely not one of their better songs. But I love the Kinks, all the same!
Hard to sound bad with those guys behind them.
Lol. The drummer couldn’t even hold onto his sticks
Ray&david are just madly i n Irritation with e achother
Hatred is kinda corny, but Celluoid Heroes is beautiful
An abridged version of "Celluloid Heroes" with a verse or two missing.....-"if you covered him with garbage, George Sanders would still have style"-
Dave Davies would have made a successful criminal if music hadn't have gotten in the way
How could Sir Ray possibly not see Dave's love for him when he sees the emotion he puts into his songs? It makes me wonder if Ray is actually an asshole?
Da werde ja sogar ich wehmütig...
I always hated that they hate each other!