The Kinks: One For The Road (Arista)
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 16 August 1980
THE KINKS' dilemma is one I'll take in preference to the one that concerns the Who, if only because leader Ray Davies isn't given to talking about the problems of growing old disgracefully in public as often as our buddy Pete Townshend, his stiff upper lip thereby investing his troubles with some mystery.
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