The Kinks

• "Ray and Dave Davies regularly fought each other on-stage in The '60s. Therefore the American Musicians' Union banned the Kinks from touring in the U.S. from 1965–69. This led to Ray and Dave being isolated from and uninvolved with American politics and counterculture. They reverted to writing about British concerns, British culture and Britain, from a British perspective, language and humour separated from their Americanized peers. This may have hurt their sales in America, but it did give them an identity as Britpop innovators."

References

• https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TheKinks

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