| Kinky Music | ||||
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| Released | 18 June 1965 | |||
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| Length | 31:01 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Larry Page | |||
| The Larry Page Orchestra chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
Kinky Music is a studio album by the Larry Page Orchestra, released on 18 June 1965 by Decca Records.[2][3] The album consists of orchestral middle of the road or easy listening[1] arrangements of compositions by Ray Davies, principal songwriter of the English rock band the Kinks, whom Larry Page then managed.[4] The album fit in a trend of orchestral arrangements of popular British rock acts, like George Martin's 1964 album Off the Beatle Track.[1][5] Davies did not participate in any aspect of the album's creation,[6] nor did any of the Kinks perform on it.[1] The recordings instead featured then prodigious session musicians, like Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan and John Paul Jones.[1]
Page considered the work a marketing exercise to introduce Davies' melodic talent to a wider audience, but the album sold poorly.[7] Davies was generally supportive or sarcastic regarding the album upon its release, but he later criticised the project as exploitative, calling it both "appalling" and "horrible".[4][8] Writing in retrospect for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger describes the album "frivolous", "bland" and unlikely to interest even devoted Kinks fans.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f Unterberger, Richie. "Kinky Music – Larry Page Orchestra". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 November 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 58.
- ^ Rogan 2015, p. 662.
- ^ a b Rogan 2015, p. 237.
- ^ Miles 2001, p. 159.
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 64.
- ^ Rogan 2015, pp. 237, 662.
- ^ Hinman 2004, pp. 57, 58.