The Kinks - Beat Beat Beat

Beat Beat Beat was a German music program that ran during the sixties. Not to be confused with the other well known German pop program Beat Club, Beat Beat Beat was broadcast out of Frankfurt commencing in 1966. The program ran to 26 episodes between its launch in 1966 and the final program in January 1969, all of which are still in the German television archives. The shows were eclectic affairs and included performances by artists as diverse as Eric Burdon and the New Animals, The Move, Sam and Dave, Cat Stevens and Barry Ryan, to name just a few.

This volume in the Beat Beat Beat series of releases is devoted to that most British of bands led by the brothers Ray and Dave Davies, The Kinks. Captured at the height of their sixties fame and taped in November 1965, the band perform five songs including their massive worldwide hit You Really Got Me. Other songs performed here include Til The End Of The Day and A Well Respected Man.