726 The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” 1964

Ray Davies: “Shortly after I formed the Ravens in 1963 with my brother Dave and bassist Pet Quaife, we began wearing colorful outfits we had bought in boutiques on London’s Carnaby Street. Dressed in these flamboyant clothes at a pub with our manager, Larry Page, I loudly insisted we needed an edgier name than the Ravens. A drunk who had been watching us remarked that we looked more like kinks to him—short for ‘kinky,’ or ‘weird.’ Larry picked up on that and said, ‘The Kinks! That’s perfect!’” (Marc Myers, Anatomy of a Song, 2016). 

The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night”