ALL BACK TO KINKS’ PLACE
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Ray Davies
KING KINK
What music are you currently grooving to?
Beautiful Things by Benson Boone – but without the backflips. I’m also spending a lot of time listening to loads of Kinks demos from the archives.
What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?
Ray Charles’s In Person. When I was in college I played in an R&B band, as a lot of us did, in Soho and somebody gave me the album as a gift because we were learning many songs from it.
What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?
Chet Atkins, Teen Scene. I bought it at Les Aldrich Music in Muswell Hill, which was our regular music and record shop – gone now. Hank Williams and Johnny Cash were a big influence on me at that time and Chet Atkins seems to sum up the picking style of Nashville.