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I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

Ray Davies

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Ray Davies
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 21
Composer
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Sir Raymond Douglas Davies
Raymond Douglas Davies
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