Getting the Kinks Out
The end of 1965 saw a change in Ray Davies' compositional style. "Till the End of the Day," in the line of succession from "You Really Got Me," features a jerky and modal chord progression. "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" and "A Well-Respected Man" are musically and culturally references to Music Hall models. Davies, as Formby did, pokes fun at the pretentious and celebrates the common. However, his previous blunt edge approach to male-female relationships is replaced by a cynical and sarcastic wit that is at once celebratory and critical of things British.
 
1965  [RD 21-22, DD 18-19]
21 January: "Tired of Waiting" / "Come on Now" [charts, reaches UK #1]
25 March: "Ev'rybody's Gonna be Happy" / "Who'll Be the Next in Line" [charts, reaches UK #17]
March: Kinda Kinks
27 May: "Set Me Free" / "I Need You" [charts, reaches UK #9]
3 July, Los Angeles: After a stage hand remarks "You wait until the Communists take over Great Britain," Ray Davies gets into a fight wih a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. After quarrels with agents over unpaid fees and unmet contract agreements, various unions and agents would blacklist the Kinks for several years. (Rogan 2015, 230-231)
5 August: "See My Friends" / "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" [charts, reaches UK #10]
2 December: "Till the End of the Day" / "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" [charts, reaches UK #8]
December: Kinks Kinkdom
—— "A Well Respected Man" / "Milk Cow Blues" [no UK release.]
 
1966  [RD 22-23, DD 19-20]
3 March: "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" / "Sittin' on My Sofa" [charts, reaches UK #4]
February: John Dalton begins replacing Peter Quaife, first on tour after Quaife injures himself, and then gradually on recordings. He officially replaces Quaife in April 1969.
9 June: "Sunny Afternoon" / "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" [charts, reaches UK #1]
 
24 November: "Dead End Street" / "Big Black Smoke" [charts, reaches UK #5]
 
Kinks a la fin de la décennie
 
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