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Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin' – Live 1966 (MVD)

Bill Wasserzieher, ICE, 22 March 2005

FOR DECADES, Spencer Davis has taken heat for having named his British Invasion band the Spencer Davis Group. One critic likened it to calling the Beatles the Ringo Starr Group — all because Davis recognized an outsized talent in a 15-year-old named Stevie Winwood. But Davis was the man in charge of the band that bore his name, and that comes through clearly on The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin' – Live 1966, an archive DVD that arrived March 15 from Music Video Distributors (MVD).

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