article_snippet: The exhilarating finale of a musical called Sunny Afternoon currently offers one of the great nightly spectacles in London’s so-called ‘theatreland’, as hundreds of mostly middle-aged punters leap or, in some cases, creak to hundreds of mostly middle-aged punters feet, jigging and jiving to the music of The Kinks.
article_snippet: Well, Johnny Rogan’s monumental biography has filled all the gaps in my knowledge of one of the men who made the Sixties swing (while simultaneously lampooning the Swinging Sixties with Johnny Rogan’s mickey-take of Carnaby Street dandies, Dedicated Follower Of Fashion).
article_snippet: ‘kinky’ was a fashionable adjective in the early Sixties.
article_snippet: Similarly uncertain are the precise origins of The Kinks’s first hit, You Really Got Me, in the summer of 1964.