Friday 23 June 2023

When We Listen To Music,

there is one group that Diana particularly likes, 


image from Kinks official site, the group is The Kinks, a little about the group, they come from Muswell Hill in North London, The Kinks were formed by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Calling themselves The Ravens, an early line-up saw them playing a combination of R&B and rock and roll with friend Peter Quaife on bass. A self-produced demo tape reached record producer Shel Talmy, who helped the band land a contract with Pye Records in 1964. Before signing, the group replaced their drummer with Mick Avory and renamed themselves The Kinks, and as it happens there is one song amongst many of theirs that we both like that they released in 1968, it is titled Days, 

and here it is, the reason I mention it is that whenever I see a article about the Kinks I read it, and in the article Ray Davis wants the song Days played at his funeral, here are the lyrics:

Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you, believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me

Days I'll remember all my life
Days when you can't see wrong from right
You took my life
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me

But it's all right
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me
I wish today could be tomorrow
The night is dark, it just brings sorrow, let it wait

Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me

Days I'll remember all my life
Days when you can't see wrong from right
You took my life
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me

But it's all right
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me

Thank you for the days

Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that shines on you, believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me

from the article:

“The song has grown in intensity over the years,” Davies opines. “I didn’t think much about the song when I wrote it. Sometimes songs occur like that. You don’t think about it, but it’s built up quite a lot of mystique over the years. It certainly left me. It belongs to the world now.” it was also released by Kirsty MacColl, which is very pleasant to listen to,

and here it is, as it happens she was born just down the road in Croydon, a sort of strange article by Ray, choosing a song for his own funeral, but there it is, I saw it and I read it.


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