Ray Davies’ well being by means of the years – together with lifelong situation

“What will be will be,” The Kinks musician mentioned in a candid interview. “I try to enjoy the moment.”

The singer-songwriter of well-known hits, resembling Sunny Afternoon (1966), seemingly nonetheless feels the consequences of a severe altercation that occurred again in 2004.

Walking together with a feminine companion in New Orleans, the place he was dwelling on the time, a mugger grabbed his buddy’s purse and ran off.

“It was fight or flight,” he informed the Daily Mail. “I wanted to smack him.”

Chasing the mugger, Sir Davies was shot at, with the bullet going by means of his proper thigh, breaking his femur.

“There was a bloody great rod in there for a year or so,” Sir Davies recalled. “That’s been taken out now.”

Elaborating, Sir Davies mentioned: “I used to be a runner, but now I have to work out at the gym, and if I don’t go three times a week the leg gets pretty stiff.”

Despite his “gammy leg”, the musician nonetheless performs soccer within the park together with his granddaughter, Lily.

Having remained bodily lively, it may very well be one of many the explanation why Sir Davies remains to be making music at 79 years previous.

And whereas songwriting has been his “release” in life, the artistic did try suicide in 1973, and was later identified with bipolar dysfunction.

Bipolar dysfunction is described by the NHS as a “mental health condition that affects your moods, which can swing from one extreme to another”.

People who expertise bipolar temper might alternate between melancholy, feeling very low and torpid, and mania, which is “feeling very high and overactive”.

The NHS provides: “Unlike simple mood swings, each extreme episode of bipolar disorder can last for several weeks (or even longer).”

As for the life-long, painful situation he has needed to stay with, he informed The Sydney Morning Herald: “I’ve got scoliosis, a muscular skeletal thing.”

He added: “I’ve had it all my life. I toured America for five years on and off in the 1980s and had to take synthetic morphine.”

The NHS says: “Scoliosis can sometimes irritate or put pressure on the nerves in and around your spine, causing pain, numbness and a tingling sensation.”

Watch The Kinks on the BBC on Saturday, July 15 at 9pm on BBC Two.