914 The Kinks “Sunny Afternoon” 1966

“‘I really can't play with my brother [Dave Davies] as the Kinks and not have Mick [Avory] in the band,’ says [Ray] Davies. ‘Mick will work with him, but Dave doesn’t want to work with Mick. Sibling rivalry has nothing on their rivalry. I have no idea what’s wrong with them.” Dave first kicked over Mick’s drumkit onstage in 1965, and Mick retaliated by knocking him out with a drum pedal, so it’s a long history…For Davies, Sunny Afternoon is ‘a song cycle about two lads who didn't really fit together. I never really had a relationship with my brother in a normal way. But what’s wonderful is the telepathy we have. Or did have’” (Jasper Rees, The Daily Telegraph, London, 24 October 2014). 

The Kinks “Sunny Afternoon”