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The Kinks
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The English rock band the Kinks staged their first concert tour of the United States in June and July 1965, following concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and a tour of the United Kingdom. Initially one of the most popular British Invasion groups, the Kinks (pictured) saw major commercial opportunity in the US, but the resultant tour was plagued with issues between the band, their management, local promoters and the American music unions. Promoters and union officials filed complaints over the Kinks' conduct, prompting the US musicians' union to withhold work permits from the band for the next four years, effectively banning them from performing in the US. Their American record sales declined, and bandleader Ray Davies shifted his songwriting approach towards more overt English influences. Davies resolved the ban in early 1969, and the Kinks staged a comeback tour later that year, but they did not achieve regular commercial success in the US again until the late 1970s. (Full article...)

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Dune, a 2021 American epic science fiction film, won 88 awards from 219 nominations. It received particular praise for the direction of Denis Villeneuve (pictured), as well as its musical score, visual effects, cinematography, production design, sound effects, and film editing. The film garnered ten nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and went on to win six awards: Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects. At the 75th British Academy Film Awards, the film received eleven nominations and received five awards: Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. (Full list...)

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Blue Horse I is an oil-on-canvas painting by Franz Marc executed in 1911. The first draft, produced earlier that year, was a pencil drawing which Marc drew in his sketchbook; this was about the size of a postcard and entitled Young Horse in Mountain Landscape, which already shows the composition of the later painting. The painting was part of several exhibitions that Marc and Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky presented to the public under the name Der Blaue Reiter from late 1911 until 1914. Blue Horse I is regarded as one of the painter's most famous paintings and is now part of the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany.

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