Fact #120040
When:
Short story:
Tired Of Waiting For You becomes the second UK No1 for The Kinks. Meanwhile, All Day And All Of The Night is hitting No7 in America.
Full article:
Ray Davies (leader, The Kinks] : We'd had, I think, three Number 1s and a Top 10 in six months, right? I sat down and said, I can't do this anymore. We were going to Southampton to do a television program, and we were like celebrities enough to be presenting awards to people, and I didn't go, I said, I won't stand for this shit anymore. I don't want to do it. I've just had enough of doing publicity. I'm not very good with the press and I don't like my pictures in the paper.
I'd said that I thought I could sing You Really Got Me better than Frank Sinatra, and somebody asked, Who is this guy who thinks he can sing better than Sinatra? I'd had all the praise for the first three records and I was getting the backlash and I didn't want to do it anymore.
Now, our press guy at the time was Brian Sommerville, a very strict guy who'd done The Beatles. He'd manipulated the press on that very famous Beatles night when they'd done the Palladium ("rattle your jewellery"), and he turned round and said, Don't be stupid. You're doing this job; you're either in the business or out of it. And I said I wanted to be out of it, and I didn't do press for a long time, and maybe that's why I've had a mixed reception....press people think I'm difficult.
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I'd said that I thought I could sing You Really Got Me better than Frank Sinatra, and somebody asked, Who is this guy who thinks he can sing better than Sinatra? I'd had all the praise for the first three records and I was getting the backlash and I didn't want to do it anymore.
Now, our press guy at the time was Brian Sommerville, a very strict guy who'd done The Beatles. He'd manipulated the press on that very famous Beatles night when they'd done the Palladium ("rattle your jewellery"), and he turned round and said, Don't be stupid. You're doing this job; you're either in the business or out of it. And I said I wanted to be out of it, and I didn't do press for a long time, and maybe that's why I've had a mixed reception....press people think I'm difficult.