Ray Davies Kinks songwriter and musician interview

Ray Davies Kinks songwriter and musician interview; Tamzin Sylvester asking question SOT - Are you going to feel quite self-conscious tonight? / I get the impression that you're not massively looking forward to being in the spotlight Ray Davies interview continues SOT I don't like the spotlight in these events because it's like something the older generation do, get awards / But people who know me well enough know that I'll not be deluded by it and not be over-impressed by it, but I'll accept it for what it is, an accolade, and like I said at the beginning of the interview, it's a payback for the time when The Kinks were banned from the States and you couldn't tour there / Now we've finally made our statement and we've been accepted which is good Tamzin Sylvester asking question SOT - Forty years later Ray Davies interview continues SOT - Well I think they accept us / We've been inducted into the American Hall of Fame / We were probably at the big inaugral concert the only non-American band in it, when we did the concert in Cleveland and that was in the nineties, so I think they've accepted us / This was a writing award which was quite special to me I guess / Accept it with good grace and move on, okay? Tamzin Sylvester thanks Ray Davies SOT