1965: The Mickey Finn Are Good Sports

June 26, 2020

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1965: The Mickey Finn Are Good Sports

The Mickey Finn were a London-based beat/R&B band who recorded for a variety of labels across the Sixties.

Produced by Shel Talmy (The Who, The Kinks), their 1965 single, a version of Ian Whitcomb’s ‘The Sporting Life’, has just been used in HBO‘s US TV mini-series I Know This Much Is True.

Based on the 1998 novel by Wally Lamb, it stars Mark Ruffalo in two roles, as identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey.

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