Kinks star Sir Ray Davies was almost killed by a Nazi bomb.
The You Really Got Me singer only recently found out about his near-miss as a baby during The Blitz.
The north Londoner, 76, said: “I was on Zoom with my family, a couple of my daughters and their kids.
“My sister Gwen was on it too and she told this story.
“When I was two days old – she would have been about five or six – she suddenly decided to pick me up and take me out of the kitchen where my cot was. And she heard a V-2 bomb come over.
“The V-2 landed just up the road from Fortis Green and all the glass in the kitchen, where I’d been lying, was shattered all over the room and I would have been killed. Talk about being intuitive…”
Sir Ray – knighted three years ago – said his near-death experience would have been one of the last missiles aimed at London. And he admitted he hadn’t known about it until now.
The band’s frontman said his near-death experience would have been one of the last missiles aimed at London (Image: 2015 David M. Benett)
He added: “No. It must have been one of the last V-2s because I was born in 1944. Hitler’s last attempt to destroy London.
“We used to play on the bomb site, though. He unwittingly gave us kids somewhere to play.”
The Kinks’ keyboardist Ian Gibbons died last year at the age of 67.
Sir Ray was knighted three years ago (Image: 2015 Harry Herd)
Speaking of his bandmate’s death, the band’s frontman: “To simply say Ian will be missed would be an understatement.
“My first thoughts are for his family and loved ones.”
The Kinks are known for iconic songs such as You Really Got Me, which is still easily recognisable today.
Ian was late to the band’s line-up after The Kinks in 1964.
The Kinks split up in 1996 due to tension between the Davies brothers and commercial failure from their last few albums.
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