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“John Lennon didn’t really like anybody.” Dave Davies revisits the Kinks’ Beatles rivalry — and reveals the only Fab Four member he admired
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In conversation with British tabloid The Mirror at the launch of The Kinks: Brothers, Davies didn’t hold back when asked about the Fab Four and the long-running rivalry between the two bands.
(from left) Ray Davies, Pete Quaife, Dave Davies and Mick Avory.
(Image credit: Getty Images)“John Lennon didn’t like the Kinks, he really didn’t,” Davies said, confirming something he has long suggested.
“In fact, John Lennon didn’t really like anybody!”
Writing in his 1994 autobiography, X-Ray, Kinks frontman Ray Davies suggested Lennon’s put-down stemmed from insecurity.