The Kinks were one of the first British bands to really break big in the U.S. where they toured constantly.
Ray Davies is an amazing songwriter - he can paint a scene with a sentence, reminds me very much iof Chuck Berry for that.
The band were down to play at the very first Glastonbury, but when the media referred to a 'little festival', the band's 'people' thought it would not do their reputation as a cutting-edge band any good to be assocaited with anything 'little' and they pulled them out of the gig. All fortgiven now though - Ray Davies played the festival last year.