The 1968 Kinks song inspired by “Marlon Brando on a motorbike”
An overlooked classic.
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The “perfect” 1967 song Damon Albarn wishes he had written
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The attempted murder that cancelled a Kinks concert in 1965: “That could have been the end”
“That could have been the end…”
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The 1968 masterpiece that Ray Davies called The Kinks “death wish”
“Maybe it’s an artistic death wish.”
The hospital stay that gave Ray Davies his best song: “I was badly injured”
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