“Til The End Of The Day” by The Kinks

"Till the End of the Day" came out as a Kinks single in 1965, later included on The Kink Kontroversy, and Ray Davies built it the way he'd built so many of the band's early hits: on a bed of crunching power chords. It paid off the same way, reaching number eight in the UK and 50 in America, with at least eight weeks on each chart.

It came out of a dry spell. Davies had writer's block, and after almost a month without a new song his worried managers sent Mort Shuman round to his semi-detached house in London. Shuman, who wrote "Save the Last Dance for Me" with Doc Pomus, was one of Davies' songwriting heroes, and he'd come to hear what Davies was going to write next. Davies thought the fuss was absurd: if he didn't want to write for a month, he wouldn't.

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