Ray Davies/LPO/Crouch End Festival Chorus - review

Meltdown festival, LondonA man blessed in many ways, but never with a sunny disposition, it sometimes seems as if Ray Davies spent the entire 60s complaining. The most recurring of his grumbles involved the Kinks's record company. Not only did Pye Records work him to a nervous breakdown, they refused to spend the kind of money on the Kinks' albums that EMI showered on the Beatles. You might argue that Davies managed pretty well regardless – it's hard to see how more money would have made Water...

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