Ray Davies from The Times Online

I have been a Kinks fan for over thirty years, so I want to make it known that the London Times interviewed Ray Davies today. I guess it may be a bit unseemly for a middle-aged coot like me to be a fanboy, but so be it.

By the way if anyone just has an interest in the music business but not the Kinks or Davies, I think you will still want to read this interview.

From Ray Davies irons out the kinks :

"A key track on Working Man’s Café seems to touch on this state of confusion, of a sense of identity being bent out of all recognition by other people’s perceptions. “It’s been great to watch the sights,” Davies sings on Imaginary Man, “playing the edited highlights/And all the outtakes you did not see were only my unreality.” The song opens with the arresting and implicitly stock-taking question, “Is this really it?” “If you say that,” argues Davies, “people get it at once. If you open a door for the listener, you’ve got their attention, simply because you’ve just said, ‘Please come in and find your world within mine.’ I did some writing once with [the playwright and scriptwriter] Jack Rosenthal, and he said that the best way to start a film or a play is to see a brick going through a window. You want to know.”"

You can also get a free download of his newest song as free download. No, I have not done that yet. It is a free registration but the wife wants to head over to Meijer and I must do one more post before I leave.