Fact #106811

Ray Davies (The Kinks] : We really liked Jesse Fuller at the time. And Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson II. When we first started to make records they tried to get people to just manufacture popular records, but we wanted songs that we could use in our stage act which would be us. All Day And All Of The Night was the sum total of our stage act, together in one thing. We kept playing it until we got it down to the simplest possible form. Directness was its thing.
(Source : Rolling Stone