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MUSIC
Last week a little-known, never-released track by The Kinks made the world sit up and listen. Time
Song, recorded during sessions for the band’s magnum opus,The Kinks are The Village Green
Preservation Society, was revealed, marking 50 years since the album’s release. And what a song it is,
efortless and gently poignant. It will feature on a special 50th anniversary edition of the album, set
for October. It had previously been played live in 1973. And it now has a Brexit shadow, says frontman
and lynchpin Ray Davies.
“When we played a concert at Drury Lane in ’73 to ‘celebrate’ us about to join what was called the
Common Market, I decided to use the song as a warning that time was running out for the old British
Empire,” Davies said. “Oddly enough, the song seems quite poignant and appropriate to release at
this time in British history, and like Europe itself the track it’s a rough mix which still has to be finessed.”
The track comes just weeks after Davies revealed that the surviving members of the original line-up
of The Kinks will get back together. There are rumours of new music.
And remember it was The Big Issue wot won it – with a little help from The Force. In 2016 The Big
Issue scored one of the scoops of the last half-century when Luke Skywalker himself (Mark Hamill)
interviewed both Ray and Dave Davies for a special edition of the magazine (orchestrated by comic
book superhero supremo Mark Millar). And during that galactic encounter the idea of a reunion
between the brothers was first mooted.Asyou await The Kinks’ return immerse yourself the interviews with Ray, Dave and Mark
on the Big Issue website bit.ly/MarkmeetsRay