"Big Sky" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks. Written and sung by Ray Davies, it was released in November 1968 on the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Ray has typi
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France (pictured 2004), where Ray Davies composed the song
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released on 22 November 1968, Village Green was a modest seller, but it was lauded by
Big Sky (song)
…Big Sky" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks. Written and sung by Ray Davies, it was released in November 1968 on the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Ray has typically avoided providing a direct answer on the song's meaning, but commentators often interpret it as describing God as unsympathetic…
Unreleased UK twelve-track cover, instead issued in Scandinavia on 9 October 1968
The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks performing for Dutch television in April 1967, two months after re-recording "Village Green"
Ray Davies's former home at 87 Fortis Green, North London (pictured 2016), where he composed and first rehearsed most of the LP's songs