Not Like Everybody Else

"Listening to Davies, I finally understood how profound an impact that four-and-a-half year ban had actually had. Drawing on the songs of Noël Coward and the music-hall culture his father had loved, Davies turned his back on the riff-driven rock that had propelled his early hits and reinvented himself as wilfully English. From this rebirth sprang a miraculous run of hits, from A Well Respected Man to Waterloo Sunset, which still hold a mirror up to our lives."

Julien Temple writes in The Guardian about making a documentary about the Kinks.