Ray Davies reveals more about the hidden meanings in his lyrics in the latest Uncut, dated December 2013 and out now.

Before Melody Maker swept me off the street in the manner of a benevolent old codger taking a pallid waif into his kindly, white-haired care in something written to make you weep by the venerable Dickens, I worked for a bleak season or two in the mail order department of a bookstore near Piccadilly Circus.

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