Kinks guitarist backs calls to save art deco shopping arcade

Dave Davies supports local shops as Grand Arcade in north London faces demolition“God save little shops,” sang the Kinks on their 1968 single The Village Green Preservation Society. More than half a century later that wish lives on for founder member and guitarist Dave Davies, who is fighting to save a historic shopping arcade near where he grew up in north London, which is expected to be demolished by developers and replaced with high-rise flats.The still-touring 73-year-old has ste