My whole songwriting journey started with insomnia. My sisters used to take turns walking me around when I was a baby, trying to get me to sleep. The only way they could get me to sleep was to play gramophone records. All night, as long as it took. It was a wind-up record player. When it wouldn’t work, one of my sisters just moved it around with her fingers, like a rap DJ. I feel like I came into songwriting because I couldn’t sleep. Because I wanted to be something else other than a songwriter. I wanted to be an “artist,” in a kind of innocent way. But [songwriting] was something I could do at one or two in the morning. There wasn’t all-night television (back then). There was nowhere to go. I wrote “Tired Of Waiting For You” and the chords to “You Really Got Me” when I lived with my sister.

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Man fristes til at skrive, at Ray Davies er en ung mand – i betragtning af, at mange af kollegerne har rundet de 75 år og mere. 73 år bliver Ray kun i dag, men som de andre er han i fuld vigør. Pladeaktuel, med en bog på bedding og koncertaktuel også.