The Kinks’ Ray Davies turns playwright: from the archive, 4 September 1974

Barry Coleman talks to the author and lead of Starmaker, tonight’s late play on ITVWhat Ray Davies muttered at the end of his White City Festival performance last year was scarcely audible; only the first couple of rows could have heard it. But it made headlines; the news was that the lead singer of the Kinks was quitting the business. But the pop world was distinctly unwilling to let him go, and after a week to consider the mounting evidence that he really might be missed, Davies changed