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Among the giants of the British Invasion, there was perhaps none more British than Ray Davies, the leader of the Kinks.
The band, in its heyday, didn’t even come to the United States; a four-year touring ban, following a dispute in 1965 with promoters and management, helped insure that Davies’s songbook, esteemed as it is, would retain a recondite streak—and that Davies might be most enduringly imagined hiding out in Muswell Hill, composing rockers about London sunsets and afternoon tea.Click here for the full story.
And yet for many years, in stretches from the seventies into the nineties, Ray Davies was, very quietly, a New Yorker—an Upper West Sider, a regular at Zabar’s and Café Lux.
Posted on 05/21/2008
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'evenin' fpf...how the heck are ya?... Good Tune! Haven't heard Ray Davies in a long time.....I used to like the Kinks, back in the day(......(How far back, I won't say!)
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Billy Bragg.
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The song IS lovely...I'm familiar with it...but what's up with the (one legged ?)cameraman???(seems a little off balance at times.)
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i love the kinks and davies' solo stuff too. thanks for the link.
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Funny how a theme running through many of Ray's songs indirectly refer to his brother... I like this clip, which sounds better than I remembered from the vinyl (yeah, I go back that far). I did see the Kinks probably at the Carousel or possibly the Avalon maybe after the ban on touring in the USA. (If you survived the 60's the odds are good for memory blanks...) BerkeleyBob
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Thanks for this! True, Waterloo Sunset, one of the best ever...
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That New Yorker piece was like gold. What a wonderful, revealing encounter with Davies! Like many other folks (and assuredly not as many as he deserves), I am a big fan. Thanks, fpf.