810 The Kinks “Tired of Waiting for You” and “A Well Respected Man” 1965

“The north London suburb of Muswell Hill is perhaps best known for the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who disposed of his victims in an Edwardian semi long since boarded up but oddly (given our obsession with notoreity) without a blue plaque. Not far from the infamous Cranley Gardens address is the secondary modern where Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave went to school in the Fifties. A plaque there commemorates the Kinks; Muswell Hill was as important to the brothers' band as Liverpool was to the Beatles...Ray Davies was born in 1944 to a Smithfield slaughterman, Frederick Davies, and his wife, Annie. At William Grimshaw secondary (now Fortismere School) he discovered George Orwell and asked a classmate called Rod Stewart to help form a band. (Stewart was kicked out when his voice was found to be unpleasantly raspy)” (Ian Thomson, The Daily Telegraph, London, March 21, 2015). 

The Kinks “Tired of Waiting for You” 

The Kinks “A Well Respected Man”