Neil and The Kinks

Neil started out as a child and ended up as a rocket scientist. 

 Who knew that the little red-haired boy who liked to play with things he found along the roadside would have such a long, strange journey from his family home near the Hornsey Art School in North London to being a "wrangler" for hundreds and possibly thousands of Kinks fans. 

That journey would include bouts of near death, a stint in the John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and having more than a small part in most of The Kinks biggest hits.

 Neil's story, continued