Ray Davies, looking older but his voice as strong as ever, sings his most beautiful composition, "Waterloo Sunset." So many Americans of my generation (I'm 44) learned what they knew about Britain from not only the Beatles and the Stones, but Davies' Kinks. Led by his lyrics, we received a history lesson about Britain's working and middle classes without ever knowing it.

— Ted Anthony — Twitter http://twitter.com/anthonyted

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