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This programme contains
some strong language.
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As a small boy I was always
intrigued with the moors
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and I came across a magazine
that had pictures of the moor.
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I was always fascinated,
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because it looked like another
planet or the moon.
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This is the valley
of the rocks.
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It's quite a mystical place.
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I first came to Exmoor when I had
a camper van, ages ago.
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I made a platform on the roof so
I could put a telescope up there
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and I used to go UFO spotting.
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In November the skies
are extraordinary.
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The night skies, they're so rich
with stars and heavens.
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The reason I moved here in the first
place is because it is so desolate.
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Oh, it's invigorating, so
quiet, a wonderful place to
contemplate and meditate.
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# I don't want to ball about
like everybody else
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# I don't want to live my life
like everybody else
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# And I will say that I feel fine
like everybody else
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# Cos I'm not like everybody else. #
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# Mum would shout and scream
when Dad would come home drunk
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# When she asked him
where he'd been
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# He said up The Clissold Arms
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# Chatting up some hussy
But he didn't mean no harm
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# Oh, Fortis Green
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# Memories
Of days when I was young
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# It can only be a memory
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# A time that now has gone. #
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Our family was really
a matriarchal system, family.
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because my mum was the boss.
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I had loads of aunties, my big gran,
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as we used to call her -
my mum's mum - had 21 kids.
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She actually they looked
a bit like Queen Victoria.
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She would have come
from that period.
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There was eight of us.
I was the youngest.
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There were six sisters, my mum
would spend all day delegating,
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"You do that, that's your job,
you do this."
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My dad was like the hunter,
if you like, going out to provide
for his family.
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We weren't very well off
financially,
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but I think that helped us.
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It helped me gravitate towards
things that were more important,
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like family and the support
that you get from family.
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As a kid, I was always
seeking for fun.
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I used to get bored if people
would get serious.
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I was quite a wild kid.
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My mum was constantly chasing me
with a broomstick.
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I was a mischievous kid, but it was
seeking, I was looking for things.
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I absolutely love it
up here on the moor.
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Early in the morning,
about this time,
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when you walk across
the moor on your own,
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and find a place that feels right,
I sit and just reflect on things.
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I love those old
Sherlock Holmes films,
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especially
The Hounds Of The Baskervilles.
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There is actually a legend
about the Exmoor beast,
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which supposedly roamed
this whole terrain
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out into the inner part of Exmoor.
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It was cited as a black panther.
They never really found evidence.
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I like to think that it still
roams the hills.
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I was the sort of kid that
was fascinated by things
that were unusual.
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There was a TV show on when we were
kids, the first of the Quatermass.
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You watched it behind a pillow,
or behind the settee you know?
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Trying to not see it,
but you had to watch it.
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There was this thing on the wireless
called Journey Into Space.
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# ..Hancock's Half Hour
Luxembourg
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# We'd sit for hours... #
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My mum often used to finish
a cup of tea
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and turn the teacup back and
there would be all the tea leaves.
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She'd sit there and read, "Oh,
there's a man in a black cape."
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This was quite a normal thing
to see my mum and sister
sitting round a Ouija board
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and put things on the glass.
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Then us kids would be hiding behind
the door somewhere,
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thinking,
"What the hell are they doing?"
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I can remember the first day I went
to school, when I was five.
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My mum dragged me screaming
up the road,
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stuck me in this room
with these other poor kids.
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The teacher made me stack up
these bricks.
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After about half an hour
I got so fed up
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I knocked them down
and I left school.
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I came home and my mum said
"David, what are you doing home?"
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"I've been to school and I don't
like it." And I thought that was it.
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And one day, the teacher
was blathering on about God
and this, that and the other.
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After God had made the trees
and the flowers,
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he made animals to go deep down
inside the earth, didn't he?
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Ants, and worms. Worm and flies.
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I put my hand up and I said,
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"Please, miss, if God made
everything, who made God?"
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"Oh, sit down David."
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I was like "Hang on!"
It made me feel stupid
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cos I thought I'd said
something wrong.
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Afterwards I realised it was
quite an important thing to say.
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# Those great
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# So great
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# Young and innocent days. #
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I wasn't content with things
as they were,
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I didn't trust teachers
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because I always felt
I was being talked down to.
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I didn't like that, because at home,
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everybody seemed like we were
all getting on together
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and it all kind of worked
in a very natural, organic way.
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The front room at Denmark Terrace
was really the party room.
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It had that funny old upright piano.
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Typical Saturday night at
the Davies' on Denmark Terrace
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was always lots of music,
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lots of laughter, lots of faces.
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When I think back I always think
of the Fellini films,
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leering down at you and these big
faces with teeth and great noses.
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Character faces, laughter
and loud and singing and drunk.
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It was like, as a little kid, sort
of sitting there, soaking it all up.
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# My old man said follow the van
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# And don't dilly-dally on the way
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# Off went the cart with me old... #
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Me mum would have a few drinks.
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and she'd start singing
the songs that affected her.
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Whenever my mum sang, I always used
to go quiet because
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I could sense a lot
of her inner pain.
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People from that generation
that went through two wars,
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you didn't even say, "I love you."
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like today everybody
is kissy kissy.
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In those days, they kept
all their feelings to themselves.
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And like the party was a way
of letting it go. "Sod it!"
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# St Theresa of the roses... #
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When my mum used to sing,
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I used to really listen,
so much pain in there.
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Like, she was someone
totally different,
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her persona was totally different
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from every day when, "Come on,
David, it's time for school."
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Totally different person
so that intrigued me.
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I learnt about love and affection
from my sisters.
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I think that was important to
my growth and to Ray's I think.
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That helped nurture the creative
stuff going on inside us.
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Guys get together going up the pub.
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You didn't talk about things like
love and beauty,
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not in those sort of fairly
harsh working class families.
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We obviously saw a lot growing up,
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you know, what women are like
when they got...
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I shouldn't say that. Cut!
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Like female competition for guys
and you know,
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trying to make themselves
look nicer than the other one.
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# Sister's in the doorway
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# Snogging with her bloke
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# Scared to put the cat out
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# In case I put him off his stroke
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# But she wouldn't be denied
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# I got a shilling as a bribe. #
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I was 11 when my sister Rene died
and it was like a trigger.
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It really upset me profoundly.
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They just had a body and they put it
in a box and I saw it in the ground.
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I thought, "That can't be...
There must be more to life
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"than just, ending up
in the ground in a box."
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I'm going to walk right across
the moor to the sea
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and then I'm going to swim
all the way over to Wales.
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# Big sky looked down on all the
people looking up at the big sky
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# Everybody's pushing
one another around. #
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That lilac and pink, blue and grey
sky. Isn't that amazing or what?
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Me and Ray as kids became close
with football
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because that was a very
intuitive thing.
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It was almost like telepathic thing.
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Like I'd play on the left side of
the field. He'd play on the right.
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We kind of knew, you could see
the picture of the game
where it was going
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and who was going to be where.
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And music, even more so, because
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we kind of both knew
what the other was going to do.
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So many times that we'd get together
just jamming around.
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In later years, like 13 or 14, I had
a friend called George at school,
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who was into guitar playing.
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His dad died, his mum used to
have to work,
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so all day long, after nine o'clock,
his house was empty.
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I'd get ready for school,
with a tie on and everything,
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and we'd pretend to walk to school
and just go to George's house.
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We'd sit there all day
playing guitar,
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listening to whatever
we could get hold of.
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Blues was a really big thing.
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There was something in blues music
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that resonated with us
as working class kids.
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It had an oppression in the music
that was screaming to get out.
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# Hah!
Take this hammer
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# Hah!
And carry to the captain... #
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Leadbelly was singing about how he
couldn't get a job and you had to be
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of a certain colour
and a certain type of person
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to get a job at some railway
or on the buses or whatever.
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Then we could see that happening
with people...
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uncles, people in our own family.
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When Ray and I were learning guitar,
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our styles developed differently,
because Ray had few guitar lessons.
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I never had guitar lessons.
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Ray's first guitar
was a Spanish guitar.
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You have a rather common habit
of leaning too much to the left.
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He learned how to finger pick
properly.
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It was far too fussy for my taste.
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I was very into like the rock
and blues stuff,
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like Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly,
Bert Weeden.
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I was never that good at copying.
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If I was trying to play
Walk Don't Run...
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..it would kind of sound
like it, but a few notes...
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But I thought, "Oh,
just do what I want" instead.
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I learned five chords.
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So I said, "Right, mastered that."
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Ray and I's first public gig
was in the pub.
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It was opposite our house
The Clissold Arms.
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We got up and played Walk Don't Run,
Apache.
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That vibe you get
with an audience,
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I think that's when you realise
there's something going on here.
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Well, the Kinks really
started from school,
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when we first got together
with Pete Quaife.
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# Too much monkey business
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# Too much monkey business
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# Too much monkey business
for me to be involved with you... #
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Pete was really important
to our musical growth.
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Because he was kind of like in the
middle of me and Ray all the time.
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You could feel that there was
a little bit of animosity going on.
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Ray going, "I'm going to
be better than you,"
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and Dave going "I'm going
to be better than you.
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Pete was a great eccentric.
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Everything was larger than life.
Everything was over the top.
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He spent half his life lying.
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It was like exaggeration.
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If it's not interesting enough
make it up, sort of guy.
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I loved it.
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I didn't realise
until like Pete died
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what an incredible bond
the three of us had,
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me, Ray and Pete,
before we were even the Kinks.
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I didn't know Ray that well in a way
because he had a lot of...
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problems
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and he was quiet and withdrawn.
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I just thought that's the way he is
and that's all right.
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When you're brought up
in a big family,
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everybody's different anyway.
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And he went to art school.
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I was more into the jazz clubs
and the clubs
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and the social scene
rather than into art.
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What put me off art at school
is I had this horrible art teacher.
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I was just, you know, as you do,
just messing around,
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and she laughed at my painting.
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I thought, "Fuck it,
I ain't going to do it."
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I refused to do art then.
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The big thing for us was the El Toro
coffee bar in Muswell Hill Broadway,
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where all the kids used to hang out.
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# Come on, pretty baby
Let's move it and a groove it... #
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My first purple hearts came here.
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I got expelled from school
when I was just 15, I think.
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Cos I was caught in the woods
with my girlfriend
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with my trousers down.
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# Let me tell you baby
It's called rock and roll... #
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I'm lying in bed for three weeks,
thinking, "This is great."
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And then my mum says, "Come on,
you've got to look for a job."
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I eventually got a job
in a music shop
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in Leicester Square, where they
fixed woodwind and saxophones.
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I learnt a lot about
how little musicians
take care of their instruments.
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We had a clarinet in one day
and it was filthy.
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It stunk.
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All the pads were rotten.
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"Oh, it's Acker Bilk's clarinet!"
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Pete Quaife was working
at a place called The Outfitter
in Charing Cross.
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The Outfitter was a fashion mag
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and Pete was really
into graphic art.
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He was a really good artist,
cartoonist.
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As well as a great musician.
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# Have I the right to hold you?
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# You know I always told you... #
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Me and Pete became really close,
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we would meet at lunchtime or
after work and go and seek out
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all the clothes shops in
Kingley Street and Carnaby Street,
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way before it became Carnaby Street!
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# Come right back
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# I just can't bear it
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# I've got some love
and I long to share it
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# Come right back
I'll show my love is strong
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# Oh
Oh yeah... #
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The fashion thing for me
was very much like,
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if older people didn't approve,
we must be doing something right.
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She looks familiar, doesn't she?
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To walk down that road with slightly
long hair was frowned upon.
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I would go to a clothes shop
and just get the silliest hat
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I could find and just stick it
on my head.
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And just... You know.
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'No, that's not the hat, that's
a device for measuring the exact
confirmation of the head.'
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# Everybody's going for
those kinky boots
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# Kinky boots
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# Kinky boots. #
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Women's fashions were a lot
more interesting than men's.
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'Undercarriage up.'
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'Beverly, meanwhile,
is in landing strip.'
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I really liked the clothes
that my girlfriends wore
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and I used to try them on.
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PVC I thought was really
interesting and leather.
284
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Mannello and Davey made me
a pair of thigh-length boots.
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# Leather is so kinky
286
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# Come and get those kinky boots
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# Boots, kinky boots! #
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The way I was,
the music and the girls
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and the self-expression and the
clothes was all kind of interwoven,
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all a part of the same adventure.
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Because I was young,
I couldn't get into the clubs,
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they used to always let me in
the back door.
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The Piccadilly Club and Studio 51.
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I went there one night and
The Stones were playing.
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# I'm going to love you
night and day
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# Well, you know my love will not
fade away... #
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Amazing.
That was one of those moments.
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Those "Uh" moments.
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Me and Pete carried on
playing together
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while Ray was away at art school.
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But, of course, we had a
problem when Ray came back
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into the fold, as it were.
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We realised that if we
were going to make a band,
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we needed a singer.
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None of us really knew
that much about singing.
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I always thought Ray should sing
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because he could kind of mimic
Buddy Holly quite good.
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And we all liked Buddy.
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As fate had it, we met two
upper-class guys.
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One was a stockbroker, Granville,
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and the other one, Robert Wace.
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I don't know if he came from
an aristocratic family
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or whether he faked it.
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They were about 7'2" and still are.
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They were rather sort of debonair
and upper-class.
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I remember Robert
going to a restaurant
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and ordering food and deliberately
leaving half the food.
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Cos that's what you did.
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You didn't eat all your food.
Whereas...
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Whereas we'd go and eat
and eat everything on the plate.
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That was the way things were
in our house.
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If we didn't eat the food quick,
someone else would have it.
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Granville was looking
for a band that could back up Robert
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cos Robert fancied himself as a...
325
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:13,760
high-falutin' singer
to impress all the debutants
and his posh party friends.
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# The changing of the guard
327
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,120
# We made our sacrifices
328
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,960
# We haven't got a butler
or a maid... #
329
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,960
So we did a gig at the
Grocer's Hall. Robert singing.
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Us lot, The Ravens, playing.
331
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We were doing a song called Rave On.
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Robert was going,
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POSH VOICE:
# Rave on
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# Rave on and tell me
Tell me.. #
335
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,720
You know? In a really immaculate
Saville Row suit.
336
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And halfway through the song,
337
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,640
he hit the mic with
his two front teeth
338
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,400
and he broke one of his teeth.
339
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,320
He runs off stage and we were
still jamming away.
340
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,120
We thought someone's got to sing
341
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,480
and I'm sort of going
like this to Ray.
342
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,760
So, Ray goes up to the mic
and starts singing Rave On.
343
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,120
And it seemed so natural.
344
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,520
The band was born
out of that funny gig.
345
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,000
And Robert and Granville
decided to be our managers.
346
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We thought, this is great.
347
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,040
Maybe we're going
to hit the big-time.
348
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,640
So you've got a bunch of kids
playing instruments,
349
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,240
wanting to conquer the world.
350
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,600
We didn't know what we were doing.
351
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,160
We took on two managers who didn't
know what they were doing either,
352
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,720
so it's a recipe for
either greatness or disaster.
353
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,280
# Gonna tell Aunt Mary
about Uncle John
354
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,200
# He said he got the blues
but he had a lot of fun
355
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,920
# Oh, baby
356
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,920
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh baby
357
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,880
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh baby
358
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,960
# We're having some fun tonight... #
359
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,560
We were just kids struggling.
360
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:10,400
Struggling for identity, trying
to do something that we wanted to do
361
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,760
but didn't quite know what it was.
362
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,360
I found the Kinks by accident.
I was going to a Chinese restaurant
on New Year's Eve
363
00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:25,600
and I saw all sorts of people
coming in.
364
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,280
Long-haired boys...
365
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,240
amplifiers moving in.
366
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,040
And, all of a sudden,
out came the music.
367
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,080
It was a group known as The Ravens,
368
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,320
a little while later
known as the Kinks.
369
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,200
And from then on, I couldn't
wait to get my hands on the Kinks.
370
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,560
We got a deal with Pye Records.
371
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Ray and I were so excited because
we were going to be on the
same label as The Searchers.
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# Sweets for my sweet
Sugar for my honey... #
373
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,400
# Your first sweet kiss
thrills me so... #
374
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:08,760
We were recording in the same studio
so we thought, maybe we should do a
couple of tunes like The Searchers.
375
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,840
One of our early singles before
You Really Got Me
was called You Still Want Me.
376
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,000
If you play it, you can imagine
The Searchers in there somewhere.
377
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,480
# And you still want me
378
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,280
# And you still want me... #
379
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,120
But it flopped.
380
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:30,720
We had a couple of records
and they flopped.
381
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,360
And...
382
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:34,040
BIRD SQUAWKS
383
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,440
HE LAUGHS
384
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,360
# ..And the wind is blowing cold
across the moors... #
385
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,360
At that time, like '63,
all the amps
386
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:50,760
had more of a clean tune, almost,
to them.
387
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,640
The Adventures and The Shadows,
they were good,
388
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:59,160
but I was looking for something that
had a bit more balls and bite to it.
389
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,960
And a more expressive,
aggressive sound.
390
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,560
I was always messing
around with stuff.
391
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,440
I found this amp in a store
up the road from where we lived.
392
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,960
It was about that big.
393
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,760
About that big.
394
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,000
A little green called Elpico.
395
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,400
I plugged it in
and messed around with it.
396
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:25,360
It was too weedy. It was the same
old, same old. Ching, ching, ching.
397
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:30,320
I got so fed up with it
I got a razor blade,
a single-sided Gillette,
398
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:36,800
got hold of the back of the amp
and I sliced the comb all way round,
399
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,600
so the combs remained intact.
400
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,480
SCRATCHING
401
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,040
I didn't think for a minute
it was going to work
402
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,520
but I plugged it in...
403
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,560
DISCORDANT GUITAR CHORDS
404
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,640
DOGS BARK
405
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,120
I didn't know anything
about electricity.
406
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,080
I did get a terrible shock.
407
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,760
It did throw me across the room.
408
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:05,440
My mum came up the kitchen -
"What you doing?"
409
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:12,360
So this sound I developed was like
an emotional platform for me.
410
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,880
It felt like me.
411
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,040
It was like an extension of
my own inner rage.
412
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:28,520
You Really Got Me was really born in
the front room in Denmark Terrace.
413
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:33,120
Ray, one day, he came in
and started playing on the piano.
414
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:41,920
That lovely old upright piano
we had, which had all the
beer over it from all parties
415
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,720
and all the piss-ups. It was
always just perfectly out of tune.
416
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,200
That was another key moment,
I think,
when I played it on my guitar.
417
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,400
MUSIC: Opening Chords
to "You Really Got Me"
418
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,520
And that was it.
It was like climbing Everest.
419
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,920
The moment of clarity.
420
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:09,960
Before, you felt insecure,
and then the event happens
and you feel whole again.
421
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,520
I've been looking for that wholeness
all my life,
422
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:20,600
whether it was in music
or in relationships
423
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,480
or in the universe
424
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,400
or inside or...
425
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,240
Where is it?
426
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:35,000
These cliffs are about 1,100 ft,
the highest cliffs in Britain.
427
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:41,480
In Victorian times, if you wanted
to get rid of your missus,
428
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,880
you could bring her here or on
holiday and push them of the cliff!
429
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,400
WOMAN SCREAMS
430
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,720
"OK, darling. Want to come for a
little walk along the coast path(?)"
431
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,640
LOUD SPLASH
432
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,520
Throughout the Kinks' career,
I don't think people
knew what to do with the Kinks.
433
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,080
'One lump or two?'
434
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:04,560
We went into record You Really
Got Me, and it sounded horrendous.
435
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,920
I think Ray was furious.
We were all furious,
436
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,120
the fact that it was
sounding so...horrible.
437
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:19,480
# Girl, you really got me going
438
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:30,720
# You got me so-o-o-
I don't know what I'm doing... #
439
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:37,720
We wanted to re-record it,
three amps, three guitars,
440
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,520
a drum kit, set up in a room.
441
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,160
That's what we wanted it
to sound like.
442
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,000
So Robert paid 200 quid
for a session.
443
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,600
They allocated two hours
in the studio, that was it -
"Forget it, next."
444
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,360
WALTZ MUSIC PLAYS
445
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,960
Next. The problems I had
trying to record my guitar sound.
446
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,600
People would say,
"You can't record that...noise."
447
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:18,960
If it hadn't been for Robert
and Ray being pissed off,
it might not have got made.
448
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,640
# Girl, you really got me going
449
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,000
# You got me
so I don't know what I'm doing
450
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,480
# Yeah, you really got me now
451
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,840
# You got me
so I can't sleep at night
452
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,560
# Yeah, you really got me now
453
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,920
# You got me so
I don't know what I'm doing
454
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,600
# Oh, yeah
455
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,960
# You really got me now
456
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,400
# You got me
so I can't sleep at night
457
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,720
# You really got me
You really got me
458
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,120
# You really got me. #
459
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,600
The first time that I heard it
on Radio, I was in Greek Street
460
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,320
and I suddenly realised,
this is something really special.
461
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,880
I think we lucked out of it,
timing-wise.
462
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:11,080
It was just perfect timing for music
to turn a different corner.
463
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,840
# ..You got me
so I can't sleep at night
464
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,040
# You really got me. #
465
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,640
You Really Got Me
was a very sexual sound.
466
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,160
# ..Ohhh... #
467
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,360
My first girlfriend
was really jealous of my guitar,
468
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,400
because I used to
take it to bed with me.
469
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,440
Just wanted to make sure it was OK.
470
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:59,360
A lot of young guitarists
ask me questions about technique,
471
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,440
which I know
virtually nothing about.
472
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,360
At that age, 15, 16,
it would have been just pure rage,
473
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,360
or anger or, "What the hell?!"
or panic, or all those things.
474
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,520
Aghhh!
475
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,480
You know? And it's all over with,
it's only eight bars.
476
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,760
So, whew...
477
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Only a crazy kid would play solo
like that,
478
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,200
not a well-honed session man.
479
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,480
I mean, it's just pure.
480
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:34,480
I think the big thing
about the Kinks is that we thought
we were playing R'n'B,
481
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,920
but we were playing something
nobody heard of before!
482
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,480
It was all so energy driven.
483
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,760
He doesn't sit back
and think about anything.
484
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,200
It's just like, "Argh!"
He just goes into it.
485
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,400
And that's the way he played guitar.
486
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,000
AUDIENCE SCREAMS
487
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,040
# I need you
488
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,720
# I need you more than
birds need the sky
489
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,120
# I need you
490
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,640
# It's true, my little girl
491
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,720
# That you can lift
the tears from my eyes
492
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,440
# But if you ever tell me goodbye
493
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,600
# I'll break down
and you'll hear me cry
494
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,560
# I need you... #
495
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,240
It's wonderful to get that sort of
acclaim and attention,
496
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:27,640
but there was an awful lot
of jealousy towards the Kinks,
or towards me and Ray.
497
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,880
Two scruffy kids -
how dare they write music?
498
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,600
How dare they have success?
499
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,760
Ladies and gentlemen, at this point
in the programme
500
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,640
it is my pleasure to present
the awards to the Kinks
501
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,280
for the runner-up position
in the Best New Group section.
502
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:53,160
Funnily enough, the Rolling Stones
won the Best Newcomer award
two years running.
503
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,920
For some reason, they just did not
want to give it to the Kinks.
504
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:03,400
There was always a thing
in the background -
the Kinks didn't deserve it.
505
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,920
The guitarist can't
string five chords together.
506
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,360
We were never in the club,
we were outsiders
because of a lot of things.
507
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:18,720
We didn't want to play the game.
"You can join this club but
there's rules." We never did that.
508
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:26,480
I thought that red hunting jackets
were a bit of a silly idea
at first until I put one on.
509
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,120
I thought "Hey! Cool."
510
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,120
It didn't feel like a uniform,
it felt like a statement.
511
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,440
"Wow, makes me feel good.
Maybe this ain't such a bad idea."
512
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,680
Robert was wonderful with that,
really.
513
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,160
And Granville.
514
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,760
Because they came from that sort of
background where you
would go riding in Hyde Park.
515
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,440
It was quite common,
it's what you do.
516
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,320
# I am a dull and simple lad
517
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,840
# Cannot tell water from champagne
518
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,760
# And I have never met the Queen
519
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,760
# And I wish I could have
all that he has got... #
520
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:12,040
'60s girls often had long hair with
a parting in the middle, like that.
521
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,160
I used to copy my girlfriends.
522
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,200
# Standing, standing
523
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,000
# We're gonna go now
524
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,680
# Who you gonna run to? #
525
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,800
I thought it was much more elegant
to part the hair in the middle.
526
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,640
# ..You're chasing all the girls
They can't resist your smile... #
527
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,440
One particular girlfriend I had
had very long hair.
She used to back-comb it
528
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,400
so it'd sort of come up
like a little dome.
529
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,800
And I kind of did my hair like that.
530
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,440
# ..Pouring out your charm... #
531
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,600
I never really
took it all that seriously
532
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:57,240
because I wanted to explore and
express myself and have a good time.
533
00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,840
There was, like, a little
clique of these guys.
534
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,080
There was Brian Jones,
Keith Moon, Dave Davies.
535
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,360
Watch out
when this lot get together.
536
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,200
I mean, it was really...
537
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,480
Wow, very wild.
538
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,520
If they thought of anything,
they'd do it.
539
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,560
They wouldn't consider
any kind of consequences at all,
540
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,160
so it would be quite wild,
quite wild.
541
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:25,280
You have to remember,
there were an awful lot of
chicks to fuck at times.
542
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,600
I'm sorry.
Hang on, I'll do it again.
543
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,760
I was 15. We had, all of a sudden,
limelight and TV
544
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:38,000
and earning money and excitement.
I just went with it.
545
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,520
I was well up for it.
546
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:45,080
The girls all over the place.
I could do what I liked.
547
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:51,400
I was a young man
who was very virile and I liked sex.
548
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,600
GUNSHOT
549
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,760
I had the world at my feet.
550
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,320
The world at my dick.
551
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,760
I had a close relationship
with a guy called Michael Aldred.
552
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,960
He was one of the comperes on
Ready Steady Go!
553
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,880
Me and Michael had a
really great time,
554
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:21,480
because he had a wonderful
sense of humour and he looked a bit
like a young Dirk Bogarde.
555
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,480
So I thought he looked really cool,
556
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,840
and he thought I looked ready cool,
so we became close friends.
557
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,880
But I found, after a while,
558
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:38,920
Michael was taking
our relationship...quite seriously
559
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,560
and that's when I saw the
other side of it and I thought,
560
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:48,200
"Shit, I can't take advantage of
his feelings like this.
561
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,440
"I can't tell him I'm just
exploring and having a bit of fun."
562
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,200
It was like a soap opera drama,
or something.
563
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,280
I'd come home,
I'd be out all day shopping,
564
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,320
I'd be in about ten pubs
and come home at midnight,
565
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:07,800
out my brains drunk, and Michael
Aldred was there, with his apron on,
566
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,280
like he was being housekeeper,
housewife.
567
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,000
And the guy, you know, loved me.
568
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,920
He said..."David..."
569
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,520
I can't say it without laughing!
570
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:29,600
"David, your beans on toast are
in the oven, and they're burned.
571
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,080
"And that's it!"
572
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,680
And I had to console him in the
garden for, like, an hour.
573
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,320
I thought, "What the hell
am I getting into?
574
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,880
"I can't...
575
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,080
"What am I doing?"
576
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,880
Isn't it amazing here?
577
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:58,520
If you look across that
landscape there, you could almost
be on a different planet.
578
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,080
What was a really magical thing was
me and Ray when we sang together.
579
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:13,880
I've got quite a high voice
and I used to sing octaves with Ray.
580
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:19,360
Despite us being
different personalities,
581
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,600
our different voices
complemented each other.
582
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,880
One of my favourite Kinks songs
was See My Friends.
583
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,320
# See my friends
584
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,280
# See my friends
585
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,520
# Playing across the river... #
586
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:50,560
The droning sound that we achieved
from a really cheap
old guitar that was detuned.
587
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,880
It created this hypnotic drone
588
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:59,640
and it sounded very
Eastern and sitar-like.
589
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,480
It can kind of put you
into a meditative state.
590
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,320
# ..She is gone
591
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:15,200
# She is gone
and now there's no-one there
592
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,240
# Except my friends
593
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,160
# Playing across the river
594
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:27,520
# She is gone... #
595
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:32,200
See My Friends really set a trend
towards Indian music.
596
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:38,360
A lot of other bands started to
buy the actual sitars and tablahs
597
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,680
and all the real Indian instruments
598
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:45,920
to try and duplicate the sound
we got on a cheap, detuned guitar.
599
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,200
Sound and light is all energy,
600
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:13,480
and the vibrations just vibrate
in different frequencies.
601
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,720
I've always loved
being beside water.
602
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:23,080
Running water is very cleansing
to your thoughts and your mind.
603
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,960
# They call me Long Tall Shorty
604
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,200
# Cos I know what
love is all about... #
605
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,400
Here at the Shindig!
are the fantastic Kinks!
606
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,000
# ..They call me Long Tall Shorty
607
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,520
# Cos I know what love is all about
608
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,880
# Well, I can tell you where
the lights go
609
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,400
# Ooh, when they go out... #
610
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,800
When we first went to America, the
audience were saying, "Fabulous,"
611
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,880
audiences, but there was
an older generation of Americans
612
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,400
that were very loath
to get out of the '50s,
613
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,880
that really thought we were
a threat, or something.
614
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:24,480
Because our music was a lot more
aggressive and, I like to think,
more sexual than the Beatles.
615
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,360
We were kind of a bit scruffy,
a little bit wilder.
616
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,520
I had shoulder-length hair
and, especially in Middle America
or the South,
617
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:39,040
you'd get those
slurs from Red Necks.
618
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,120
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
619
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,480
I'm both, actually.
620
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:51,080
And having a name like the Kinks
doesn't really help.
621
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:55,600
But I loved it. I thrived on it,
really, because I was a cheeky kid.
622
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,880
It seemed fun that people thought
I was pissing them off.
623
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,360
# I'm a lover not a fighter
624
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,600
# Well, I'm a lover not a fighter
625
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,280
# Well, I'm a lover not a fighter
626
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,920
# And, man, I'm built for speed. #
627
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,720
On those shows like Shindig!,
that we did in the States,
628
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,840
they were really heady times
and it was very exciting.
629
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,880
I was 15, 16 years old,
630
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,760
playing in front of all these girls
631
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,560
and who knows how many millions
of people were watching?
632
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:35,600
And I kind of just used to
explode with excitement
when I played my guitar.
633
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:47,320
You had Jimi Hendrix at that end,
Noel Coward at the other end.
634
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,680
There was always me in the middle,
rocking it back and forwards,
you know?
635
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,800
I just thought it was being exciting
and being expressive,
636
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,480
but I think they thought it
was a bit sexual, maybe.
637
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,120
Like, "Maybe we shouldn't
have this..."
638
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,240
We didn't realise how
powerful the unions were.
639
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:13,600
Like, if they didn't like you,
that was it. "You're out, mate."
640
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,920
Being banned from America
was a big help for us.
641
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,040
We had to re-address
the whole situation.
642
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,120
This could be a career,
643
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,640
and I should start learning
how to play guitar!
644
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:36,600
Learn some scales and stuff,
which is a real job.
645
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:43,880
There was a big shift in our music,
moving away from those aggressive
early, riff-driven songs,
646
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:49,200
and coming back home to our roots,
Max Miller and stuff like that.
647
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,240
Stuff that our parents listened to.
648
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:58,640
# Friday evenings
People get together
649
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:03,400
# Hiding from the weather
650
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,960
# Tea
651
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,600
# And toasted
buttered currant buns
652
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,320
# How to compensate for
lack of sun
653
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,360
# Because the summer's all gone
654
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,120
# La, la, la, la, la
655
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,080
# Oh, my poor rheumatic back
656
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:28,080
# Yes, yes, yes
It's my autumn almanac... #
657
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,920
My mum and dad used to love to
come to our shows.
658
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:36,280
We'd come off a big tour and go up
the pub with my dad and his mates,
play shove ha'penny.
659
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,040
You know? Darts and a pint.
660
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,440
# Mr Pleasant
661
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,480
# How is Mrs Pleasant?
662
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,800
# I hope the world
is treating you right
663
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,280
# And your head's in the air
664
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,680
# And you're feeling so proud
665
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,120
# Because you're such a success
666
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:04,200
# And the whole wide world
is on your side
667
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,400
# Hey, hey
668
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,240
# How are you today?
669
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,640
How's your father?
How's your mother?
670
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,800
# How's your sister?
How's your brother?
671
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:22,360
# How's your brand-new limousine?
24-inch TV screen?
672
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:27,240
# Is you like prosperity
more than you like poverty?
673
00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:30,920
# Life is easier now... #
674
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:38,280
A lot of the material was so heavily
drawn from our background as kids.
675
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:45,400
A lot of the characters in
early Kinks music
was based on our own family.
676
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:50,600
Sometimes we teased Ray about
some of the songs that he wrote.
677
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,160
It was really written by my family.
678
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:59,520
# Well, I said goodbye
to Rosie Rooke this morning
679
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:05,680
# I'm going to miss
her bloodshot, alcoholic eyes... #
680
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:11,960
He was writing about what I did
a lot of the time, I'm sure of it.
681
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,920
Like Dandy.
682
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,720
I did the parting,
and Ray wrote about it.
683
00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:21,120
He was Oscar, and I was Wilde.
684
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:26,720
Ray would often pick the phone up
and say, "Dave, I've got an idea,
da-da-da-da," you know?
685
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:31,120
I'd come round and we'd sit
round a piano and he'd play me...
686
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,560
..a core riff.
687
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:43,440
You could always tell when
something was going to really work.
688
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,680
It's a collaborative thing.
689
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:51,080
We trigger each other.
"Yeah, that's really good.
Yeah, we should do that."
690
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,680
It goes backwards and forwards.
691
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,240
# In the summertime... #
692
00:49:56,240 --> 00:50:00,920
I wanted to be supportive, helping
each other, helping the family out,
693
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,920
and then Ray would come back
a day or two later
with the complete thing finished.
694
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:12,800
# ..Everybody's looking for the sun
695
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,760
# People strain their eyes to see
696
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,120
# But I see you and you see me
697
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,760
# And ain't that wonder? #
698
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,600
Ray can write a song about anything,
699
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,200
where I can't.
It's got to be an emotion first.
700
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,960
# I've been crying all the winter
701
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,640
# I've been waiting
for some good to come my way
702
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:55,000
# But I'll wait till the
summer comes along
703
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,160
# Lord, have I done so much wrong?
704
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,360
When you're sitting down
making a song, working on it,
705
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,920
are you trying to do anything other
than enlarge your bank balance?
706
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,560
Um... Oh, definitely, you know.
707
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:14,360
It's not just strictly
a commercial... Oh, no. ..venture?
708
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,440
Actually, if it was,
I wouldn't be able to do it.
709
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,520
If I thought of it that way
I wouldn't be able to do it.
How do you think of it?
710
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:26,000
It's funny because, you're not
going to believe me, but I
don't think of it when I do it.
711
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,960
You sort of have a few drinks, you
sit down, and you think of something
712
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:37,280
that somebody's said or a television
programme you saw, say, somebody in
Vietnam getting shot or something,
713
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:42,520
and it, sort of, forms a pattern
in your brain. Like a dream.
714
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,600
Like playing, I suppose you can
compare it to dreaming, as well.
715
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,280
Lots of things compressed
716
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:50,320
and it explodes.
717
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:01,480
# You don't have to look at me
718
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,880
# You don't have to smile at me
719
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,080
# You just got to love me
till the sun shines... #
720
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:14,720
I started to find, as the years
get to about 67, 68,
721
00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:17,920
I used to go in the studio
and my hand ached,
722
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,960
from just drinking
and pill-popping...
723
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:28,000
...just burning the candle
at both ends.
724
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,080
One day, you wake up and you think,
725
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,600
"What's the point?
726
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,480
"What am I doing?"
727
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:54,120
Death Of A Clown, I wrote in that
same front room at the house.
728
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,760
The vibes in that room
always felt happy to me.
729
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:02,240
My sister's got married and they
came to the reception in that room,
730
00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:04,640
and the family
gatherings were happy.
731
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,400
It was like a focus of energy.
732
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,440
# My make up is dry
733
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,560
# And it clags round my chin
734
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:20,760
# I'm drowning my sorrows
in whisky and gin
735
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:27,920
# The lion tamer's whip
doesn't crack any more
736
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:33,680
# The lions, they won't bite
and the tigers won't roar
737
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:42,000
# La la-la la la la-la la
738
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:48,920
# So let's go and drink
to the death of a clown... #
739
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:55,280
The Death Of A Clown thing just
came out of what I hit on the piano,
740
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,400
because I was in that mood
of not being happy with
741
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:04,120
the situation in my life and feeling
like it should be something else.
742
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:09,640
Those yearning feelings do stimulate
you to want to write
or play something.
743
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,840
So, I expressed it in a song.
744
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:19,640
# Let's all drink
to the death of a clown.... #
745
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,280
It's about the solution.
746
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,240
I realised that going out,
drink and drugs and girls -
747
00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:32,440
beautiful girls, as well, I might
add - the lifestyle with it
748
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,280
was just like the analogy
within a clown -
749
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,160
trying to make people laugh
and in the end, just crying.
750
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:46,480
# So won't someone help me
to break up this crown
751
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,800
Let's all drink
to the death of a clown... #
752
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,520
Everybody wanted me to go solo.
753
00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:00,280
Robert and Grenville, especially,
wanted me to go on tour.
754
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,520
They would do,
with the money and stuff.
755
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,320
They kept saying
I could be a huge success.
756
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,040
# Oh, Susannah's bedraggled
757
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,000
# But she still wears
the locket round her neck
758
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:20,040
# She's got a picture on a table
of a man who is young and able
759
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,520
# Oh, Susannah's gonna cry
760
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,000
# Oh, Susannah's still alive
761
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,360
# Whisky or gin, that's all right
762
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,600
# There's nothing
in her bed at night
763
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,560
# She sleeps with the covers down
hoping that somebody gets in
764
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,080
# It doesn't matter what she does
She knows that she can't win
765
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,760
# Oh, Susannah's gonna cry... #
766
00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:03,440
I did put two or three solo
singles out, without the Kinks,
but I thought, "No, we're a family.
767
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,720
"Let's continue
and see where it takes us."
768
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,320
Let's hear it for
Mr Death Of A Clown, Dave Davies.
769
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:13,040
APPLAUSE
770
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:18,880
Now, this thing about the rivalry
between me and Ray,
771
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:24,840
I didn't know anything about,
until I was about 18,
19, 20 years old.
772
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,160
Because it never struck me that
there was any rivalry or jealousy.
773
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,680
So it came as a big surprise
to me when people started
to talk about it.
774
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:41,120
There's two mountain goats
sparring up there.
775
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,640
# Sylvilla looked into her mirror
776
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,240
# Percilla looked into
the washing machine
777
00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:57,520
# And the drudgery of being wed
778
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,200
# She was so jealous of her sister
779
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,280
# And her liberty
and her smart young friends
780
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,400
# She was
so jealous of her sister... #
781
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:18,000
I could say that I was a victim
of a very abusive relationship,
782
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,920
but that's not really what
we want to do, is it? No.
783
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,640
If we make a list of all the
bad things that happen to us
784
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:31,120
and moan about them,
it's really unproductive.
785
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:38,200
Even the people we don't like,
or at times think we don't like,
are there for a reason,
786
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,560
for our own personal growth.
787
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:44,880
The blame thing is unhelpful.
788
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:52,040
If there hadn't been bad times,
I might not have got interested
in spiritual things.
789
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:58,760
I'm thankful to have Ray
as a brother, even though
he's an arsehole,
790
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,680
because it made me
look at life differently.
791
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,880
I thought,
"He's my brother, I love him.
792
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,720
"He does something to me that
I don't like, what do I do?
793
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:12,800
"Hit him over the head? Shoot him?
What's the point of that?"
794
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,560
I can't change him.
795
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,280
# Picture yourself
when you're getting old
796
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:32,520
# Sat by the fireside, a-pondering on
797
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,440
# Picture book
Pictures of your mama
798
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,960
# Taken by your papa a long time ago
799
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:47,320
# Picture book
of people with each other
800
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:51,160
# To prove they loved each other
a long time ago... #
801
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:01,120
After three years, when we could
go back to the States again,
802
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:04,960
it was a totally,
totally different mood.
803
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,920
It was like starting all over again.
804
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,520
Instead of all the little
teeny girls screaming,
805
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:14,920
trying to rip your clothes off,
there were all these grey-faced,
806
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,640
bearded men - not women.
807
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:24,920
Really dour, kind of down beaten,
lying on the floor,
808
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:26,960
"Yeah, sure."
809
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:31,720
The bands were heavier
and serious and darker.
810
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:33,680
It was a very dark period.
811
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:37,480
# I am the god of hellfire,
and I bring you...
812
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,560
# Fire!
I'll take you to burn... #
813
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,040
Rock and roll had a looming
sort of feeling about it.
814
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:49,520
# Burn, burn, burn, burn!
815
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:55,480
# Ah ha ha ha ha!
Ah ha ha ha ha... #
816
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,320
America went into that Vietnam zone,
817
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,680
and the mood and life
818
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,840
became very, very serious,
all of a sudden.
819
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,640
These young people, instead
of them partying and smoking dope,
820
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:17,800
wearing flowers in their hair,
suddenly realised they were being
called up to kill and get killed.
821
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,920
# Land of hope and Gloria
822
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,720
# Land of my Victoria
823
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,920
# Land of hope and Gloria
824
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:32,080
# Land of my Victoria... #
825
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:37,200
It was hard, because the support
structure started to collapse,
826
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,120
with our management leaving.
827
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:46,040
Pip leaving.
828
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,600
It was kind of like
in no-man's land.
829
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:56,880
We were so out of fashion,
out of touch with what people
were going through.
830
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:02,080
Fortunately, there was a cult thing
about the Kinks and it was weird.
831
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:06,560
The Americans seemed to pick up
on that, where the English didn't.
832
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:10,600
JIMI HENDRIX GUITAR RIFF
833
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,880
The only time I spoke
with Jimi Hendrix was when
834
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:20,400
we sat next to each other on a plane
going to Sweden, for some TV thing.
835
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,280
He didn't talk a lot,
but he said he thought
836
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:30,360
You Really Got Me, the guitar
sound was a landmark guitar sound.
837
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:34,240
I always thought that,
coming from him, that was,
838
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:37,080
you know, quite a compliment.
839
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:55,000
Mitch Mitchell, Jimi's drummer,
lived for a while in my house
that I rented in Muswell Hill.
840
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:00,520
We went away on tour
and he used to keep pigeons
841
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,160
under the bed.
842
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:07,000
Weird.
When we got back, threw him out.
843
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,400
On the back
of a so-called flop,
844
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:20,280
which I always regard
as one of our best albums -
845
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,680
Arthur -
we started to build up again.
846
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:28,920
I was thinking,
"I don't think it's done yet,
because people want this
847
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,680
"and if people want this,
we must be doing something right."
848
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:35,920
# Well, sit by the fire
in your Shangri-La... #
849
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:43,000
And I knew that Ray was going
through an immensely creative,
850
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,000
as well as a destructive, period.
851
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,760
So I thought,
"We've just got to ride it out."
852
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,840
I had a really, really
bad time in 1973.
853
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,000
It was obviously the drugs and stuff
as well, but the sort of lifestyle.
854
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:05,400
You think, "What the hell
am I doing flying on a plane,
855
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:10,560
"across the other side of the world?
Horrible and I feel tired.
856
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:19,800
"Am I supposed to be a rock star?
Is that what I'm supposed to do?"
857
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,080
We were playing a beer festival.
858
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:28,040
It was a beer-sponsored thing
in New York.
859
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:32,320
I felt I was in a bad way.
I could play, I could get by,
860
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:38,920
go back to the hotel room and then
it started - hearing voices.
861
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,600
I'm thinking,
"This is what mad people do."
862
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:48,600
I heard stories about this woman
walking down the street
talking to imaginary people.
863
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,760
I'd think, "Hey, fucking, hey."
864
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:58,480
I haven't really spoken in depth
about it to many people
865
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:05,840
because it's being
in the land of the insane,
it's not a very nice place.
866
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:11,120
I was sitting in a hotel room, the
whole of the day on Eighth Avenue,
867
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:12,800
looking out
868
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:16,440
and hearing these voices saying,
"Jump out of the window."
869
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:20,280
It's like me saying to you,
"Julian, come on, jump, jump.
870
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:22,120
"Go on, jump."
871
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,480
And there's nobody there.
872
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,280
My senses all kind of...
873
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:29,880
All over the place.
874
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:36,200
I'm trying to function, get up
and sleep and trying to get up,
875
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:42,720
tune my guitar and I suddenly said,
"Please let's get back to England,
let's get back home,
876
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:45,680
"see what the fuck's going on here."
877
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,960
And it was awful.
878
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,440
I called it a psychic death.
879
01:04:55,120 --> 01:05:00,720
I felt that there must be ways
to combat this, and Ray did,
880
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:06,320
trapped in his own hell, his own
world, and I was trapped in mine.
881
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:12,200
We were brothers
living only a few miles apart
and we couldn't connect in that way.
882
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:17,880
I decided the only way that I was
going to get out of this hell,
883
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:23,200
my own little private hell,
was to work on it myself.
884
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:31,600
The mind's so easily persuaded
in so many different directions.
885
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:39,160
Use the imagination to make it work
for us, instead of against us.
886
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:43,920
It's restructuring your
thought process - reprogramming.
887
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:49,320
When you feel, "I can't get
out of bed, can't get out
of bed, I'm too depressed."
888
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:54,440
It just drags you down
and down and down,
889
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,560
into an abyss that some people
can't get out of.
890
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,440
And there's the ruins
of an old monastery.
891
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:16,920
I don't know if I can get up there,
but quite an exceptional place.
892
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,440
I got interested in spiritualism.
893
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:31,280
I knew a bit about astrology and
a bit about yoga and I thought,
894
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:36,640
"I'll get into a regime
where I can do my yoga every day
and do some meditation."
895
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:43,440
The yogis talk about working on
the energy of the mind and knock
it into shape, for Christ's sake.
896
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:46,760
I became more introvert.
897
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,000
From being, like,
898
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,760
out there, I was more like this.
899
01:06:55,480 --> 01:07:00,760
Sensitivity has a price and I think,
all that money does,
900
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,720
it creates a moat around your life.
901
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:11,640
You might be sensitive, but you
are protected from experience.
902
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,840
Although we were written off
at this point,
903
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:19,680
the Kinks did succeed in coming
back to conquer America again.
904
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,480
# And it's back where we started
905
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:27,880
# Here we go round again
Here we go round again
906
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:33,720
# Back where you started
Do it again, do it again... #
907
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,680
There's no such thing
as failing at anything.
908
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:51,320
You don't fail,
you have an experience.
909
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,480
It is a means to progress further.
910
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:07,160
I think Kinks' music
is music of hope
911
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:10,720
and humour and reality.
912
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:19,320
People do fuck up,
they do mess up, they trip up.
913
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:33,720
Martin, my eldest son,
and I decided it would be cool
914
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:39,400
if we made a film
about my mystical journey.
915
01:08:46,440 --> 01:08:54,400
An introduction to so many aspects
of magic, the golden dawn,
occultism,
916
01:08:54,400 --> 01:09:00,320
spiritualism and all the allied
areas that you can investigate.
917
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:06,360
It has been a main thread
throughout my life and career
through the Kinks, anyway.
918
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:11,600
It isn't like something
I just woke up one day and thought,
"Oh, that's interesting."
919
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:18,120
It's tying to understand
mystical elements in our lives
that are very real.
920
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:24,960
HE SINGS "JERUSALEM":
# And did those feet in ancient times
921
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:32,920
# Walk upon
England's mountain green?.. #
922
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:34,360
Sorry!
923
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:39,640
It is better for us to control
our own minds than
924
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:45,160
someone else do it for us, like
some organised religion might do.
925
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:52,360
The main battle we all have
is about inside, with ourselves.
926
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:57,680
I think, in the '70s, when I went
through that bad time, I think
927
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:02,000
when I went within,
wondering if I could play any more,
928
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:08,520
kind of motivated me to think
maybe I could use this energy
for some sort of healing.
929
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,200
When you're playing music,
930
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:19,200
on the big stage with thousands
and thousands of people, there is a
helluva lot of energy flowing around
931
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:23,360
that auditorium that most people
don't even know about.
932
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,640
It's what's entertainment is.
933
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:33,360
It's about bringing people
up and out of their isolation,
934
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,520
that they can join the party.
935
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:58,800
The Aschere Project is something
I put together with my son Russell,
936
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,960
who is a very accomplished
musician in his own right.
937
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:08,760
He sent me some ideas on MP3s.
I went for a drive over Exmoor
938
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:13,680
and walked across the sea and I
listened to this music and thought,
939
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,040
"I can see this story emerging."
940
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:26,240
# When you sleep
I am there with you
941
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:34,840
# When you wake, I will protect you
942
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:43,480
# When you dream
I will show you... #
943
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:52,160
It's a love story between a man
and a woman that are separated
by time and space.
944
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:56,840
The night skies in Exmoor, with
the stars, inspired the thought
945
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:02,760
of separation, the girls,
one side of the universe,
and the guys, stuck on earth.
946
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:06,600
They devise a mystical way
to get back together.
947
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:15,640
If it gets a bit too way out,
it's still just about
love and lovers.
948
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:27,640
It's also the underlying thread
in the album is the love between
a father and a son working together.
949
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:34,560
When you are actually immersed in
a creative thing with your own son,
950
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,080
it is like joy.
951
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:47,800
All these ideas I get, if I can get
them from here or here into a bit of
952
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:53,560
music and put some words with it,
that is me functioning at my best.
953
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:05,600
Ray and I have talked about
doing new Kinks recordings,
but it doesn't feel right to me.
954
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,920
It's like trying to repaint
a Rembrandt or something.
955
01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:13,480
Those wonderful pieces of music
weren't done like that.
956
01:13:13,480 --> 01:13:18,480
They sort of appeared
through Ray's consciousness
957
01:13:18,480 --> 01:13:23,040
and my energy
and the other people around us.
958
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:29,880
It's the imperfections that helped
develop us as a spiritual being.
959
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:32,920
Getting back to that thing
I was talking about earlier,
960
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:39,120
about finding those moments
of clarity or moments of oneness.
961
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,360
Maybe a second, a split second.
962
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:48,840
# Waterloo sunset's fine
Waterloo sunset's fine... #
963
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:53,840
So many times
me and Ray have been on stage
964
01:13:53,840 --> 01:14:00,840
and something will happen and we'll
look at each other and we'll know
the whole atmosphere has changed.
965
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:04,680
In a way, Ray and I were magicians,
without realising it,
966
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,480
purely because of that love bond.
967
01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:14,320
So, playing something together,
it automatically had
that love vibration.
968
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:19,760
Maybe it is good that you get two
people that think totally different.
969
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:22,640
Because it is something
opposite in front of us,
970
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:27,280
it helps us try and figure out
how we fit into the whole thing.
971
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:32,440
# Waterloo sunset's fine. #
972
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,720
APPLAUSE
973
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:46,320
I once read somewhere that Ray said,
if he had to do it all over again,
he'd change every single thing.
974
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:53,920
That's so amazingly funny or curious
because I wouldn't change any of it.
975
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:05,480
# Where are you going to?
I don't mind
976
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:12,240
# I have killed my world
and I have killed my time
977
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:17,640
# So where do I go?
What will I see?
978
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:24,160
# I see many people coming after me
979
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:31,960
# So where you going to?
I don't mind
980
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:37,080
# And if I lived too long
I'm afraid I'll die
981
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:43,000
# To peace we find
Tell you what I'll do
982
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:47,960
# Everything I own
I will share with you
983
01:15:49,480 --> 01:15:53,400
# Strangers on this road, we are one
984
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,240
# We are not two, we are one
985
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:05,360
# Strangers, on this road, we are one
986
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:10,680
# We are not two, we are one
987
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:22,080
# I'm not like everybody else
988
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:30,080
# I'm not like everybody else. #
989
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:33,120
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