After Georgie Fame's 'Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde' (pretty bad, in retrospect) the next 45 I remember buying was 'Ape Man', from a long-defunct secondhand shop I had to walk miles to find.  I don't like everything The Kinks did, but I like enough, and Davies has always been pretty interesting.  The woman who does my alterations met him wearing her school uniform.  Sounds stimulating.  She said he was a disappointment.