“I’m defıned by my writing”

“IT starts in a leafy suburb in north London – and ends up going to hell and back!” Ray Davies is telling about his new project, the BBC radio musical , based on The Kinks’ 1970 LP. “When I made the album all those years ago,” he recalls, “I did a sketch storyline, and I wanted to write. It’s about his struggles with demons. I steered away from The Kinks’ story – I wanted to make it a story that everybody could relate to. It describes how I was having a slight mental breakdown at the time.”