What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

For example "Holiday in Waikiki" (1966) deplored the vulgar commercialization of a once unspoiled indigenous culture. Davies' setlist included material by the Kinks and solo material. Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II the postwar austerity years and up to the 1960s.

: /ˈdeɪvɨz/ DAY-viz; born 21 June 1944) is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks which he led with his younger brother Dave. Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies CBE (pron.