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Ray Davies: I thinkthat songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. See, when groups were on the road, they used to go right in the studio and create the same kind of feeling they had on the road, and the stuff they used to cut was influenced by what they did at gigs.
Ray Davies: Maybe people should have a winding down session before listening to our songs. Maybe they should be briefed. Or debriefed. I think they should be debriefed.
Ray Davies: If I had to my lif... (more The Kinks quotes)
The first single that they realised was "Long Tall Sally", a cover of a Little Richard song.
The Davies brothers were born in Muswell Hill (north London). Ray Davies and Pete Quaife were school mates. Rod Stewart grew up in Muswell Hill as well, and went to school with them.
Their song "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (1966) was used in a commercial for an IBM ad.
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