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Ray Davies (leader, The Kinks] : It was the end of 1965 and I said, 'I can't write any more. I'm really having a dead patch. Mort Shuman, the songwriter, came up to my house and wanted to corrupt me. He said, 'Get chords that like and enjoy, and just write a song around them.' And I wrote Till The End Of The Day that night.

I was world weary. I really did feel that the good times had gone. We'd had the hit singles and then we'd been sucked into the mad schedule of touring and recording. People were saying that I'd lost my touch as a writer, that we didn't sound the same any more.
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