Ray Davies: 'I'm easy to love… but impossible to live with'

Long revered as one of England's finest songwriters, Ray Davies, curator of this year's Meltdown festival, remains shy, insecure and steadfastly old-fashioned. And his biggest regret? The family life he never had…Ray Davies has now been famous for close on half a century, and yet the experience seems to have changed him hardly at all. He still lives barely a mile from where he was born (Fortis Green, in north London). He is still friends with people he knew at school. In a pub, he can still "d...

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