The legendary Kinks co-founder appeared on The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan podcast in May 2026, where he looked back at one of the English rock band’s most difficult periods.
“Awful. We had a terrible time,” the Kinks guitarist recalled. “We got banned in America.”
“I thought Arthur was great, it was one of our best,” Davies clarified. "They were great years. There's some emotional songs, though, in there that really stand up.”
Arthur was a concept album about the fictional character Arthur Morgan, a carpet layer living in post WW-II England.
There have been conflicting stories on the reason why the Kinks were banned from the US 60 years ago. According to Rolling Stone, one rumor was that the group was banned after Dave Davies refused to sign a union contract. Another story suggested his brother Ray punched a union official for claiming the British Invasion was a communist plot, thus losing the band's support from US booking agents.
“America in the Sixties was the place to go,” Ray Davies told Rolling Stone. “The Stones, Led Zeppelin, our friends in Jimi Hendrix and all these bands were going over, but we were banned from playing. So I withdrew into my own culture.”
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