{"id":563374,"date":"2026-07-28T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:57:09","slug":"the-kinks-guitarist-says-george-harrison-was-the-only-beatle-he-really-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563374\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kinks&#8217; guitarist says George Harrison was the only Beatle he &#8220;really liked&#8221; &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA 1964 grudge that refuses to fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Decades after the British Invasion\u2019s fiercest rivalry, <a title=\"The Kinks reunion is finally upon us, Dave Davies confirms\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/the-kinks-reunion-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kinks<\/a> guitarist Dave Davies has reignited the old feud, admitting he only \u201creally liked\u201d George Harrison from The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of The Kinks: Brothers art exhibition in London, Davies candidly dismissed John Lennon as someone who \u201cdidn\u2019t really like anybody\u201d and scoffed at <a title=\"Paul McCartney recalls 1965 Elvis meeting as a \u201cpinch yourself\u201d moment\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/paul-mccartney-elvis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paul McCartney\u2019s<\/a> songwriting as merely \u201ca few decent songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tension harks back to 1964, when <a title=\"John Lennon\u2019s Legacy Lives On in Australian \u2018Give Peace a Chance\u2019 Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/john-lennons-posthumous-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lennon<\/a> dismissively introduced The Kinks as mere warm-up acts before their explosive performance of \u2018You Really Got Me\u2019 proved otherwise. Lennon\u2019s paranoia over sharing equipment only deepened the divide.<\/p>\n<p>Though Davies later softened his stance, thanking McCartney for kind words, the legendary friction remains unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the famously feuding Davies brothers now claim they\u2019re \u201cgetting on great\u201d and haven\u2019t ruled out a future reunion, having recently collaborated on new material and presented a united front against critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1964 grudge that refuses to fade away. Decades after the British Invasion\u2019s fiercest rivalry, Kinks guitarist Dave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[89893,146,34238,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-563374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-entertainment","tag-icons","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}