CREEMEDIA
"...I couldn’t keep from wondering how they [Ray and Dave Davies] sleep on their compromises at night." —Marianna Fikes, in a letter to CREEM after attending a recent Kinks concert. Marianna, I don’t think I have to defend the Kinks’ kompromises, since very few of us noticed when they were world-class (circa Something Else and Village Green).
CREEMEDIA
DEPARTMENT
PROVING THEY EXISTED
THE KINKS KRONIKLES by John Mendelssohn (Quill)
THE KINKS:
THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY by Jon Savage (Faber & Faber)
J. Kordosh
"...I couldn’t keep from wondering how they [Ray and Dave Davies] sleep on their compromises at night."
—Marianna Fikes, in a letter to CREEM after attending a recent Kinks concert. Marianna, I don’t think I have to defend the Kinks’ kompromises, since very few of us noticed when
they were world-class (circa Something Else and Village Green). At least they’re earning some money nowadays. Need I add that you should picture yourself when you’re getting old? Or that “Arthur”—the song (in fact, the very idea), and not even the album—is almost certainly better than the sum total of their subsequent work?
I thought not.