The Kinks’ most misunderstood song was one of Ray Davies’ favourites: “I wouldn’t care if it bombed”
Confusing.
The Kinks
The musician Dave Davies said had too big an ego: “Thought he invented the bloody instrument”
“Carried along on that crystal and glamour…”
‘Dead End Street’: The Kinks song written about the “camouflage” of the 1960s
“We are strictly second class.”
How Ray Davies used painting as his springboard to songwriting
“The whole picture would take on a new image.”
Mark Hamill’s single favourite band of all time: “I had never heard anything so primal”
Practically invented rock guitar sound.