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Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Ray Davies

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Ray Davies
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 21
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Sir Raymond Douglas Davies
Raymond Douglas Davies
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Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
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Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.
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When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.
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Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.
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Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.
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