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| | Ray Davies, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, from The Independent, October 1, 2004 |
 | | Ray Davies, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, from The Independent, October 1, 2004 |
 | | Opening with the brilliant 1966 B-side "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", the most desperately confessional song he wrote, is a brazen statement of intent. |
 | | When Davies switches to the quiet of acoustic guitar, it is so you can hear the struggle between desperate nostalgia and inevitable disillusion in his old songs, the impossible ache, as in "Picture Book", for "those days when we were happy, a long time ago". |
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