Ray Davies: Sadness and A Kind Of Fame
Johnny Black, Sunday Times, 18 March 1984
RAY DAVIES has always been a rough diamond. The famous gap-toothed smile is still there, he mumbles through his polysyllables and, bit by bit, he is reverting to the gauche, teddy-boy air of the pre-Kink years.
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