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"... Another crack in the armor, according to some, was our decision to perform on the TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium on January 22, a bastion of all entertainment artists – ballad performers, jugglers, comedians and actors of the conversational genre. The huge audience for this show was mostly adults, as opposed to the contingent we usually gathered, but Andrew felt that we could no longer limit our audience to teenagers and had to spread the net wider. For 1,500 pounds, we had to perform an unedited “Let's Spend the Night Together” plus “Ruby Tuesday”; we recorded the instrumental parts in advance, and Mick sang live. "It's not that we weren't able to play live," Keith said, "we just weren't sure if the studio would produce the sound we wanted." We were seen by viewers in nine and a quarter million homes; we had not seen such a huge audience for more than a year - Palladium occupied the top spot in the weekly list of the 20 most popular programs. However, as always, we sparked a general protest about something that had nothing to do with our music. The traditional aspect of the Palladium has always been the finale of this show, in which all its participants finally lined up on a rotating platform to wave their hands to the audience and viewers. We couldn't stand this pop show–off- we've been fighting it for the last 4 years. We said that we would not go to this turntable at the end and got into an altercation with TV producer Albert Locke and his colleagues.

Andrew insisted that we go, Mick violently kicked back; Tito Burns, our agent, the former leader of the dance group, steeped in the traditions of show business up to his ears, said that it would not hurt anyone. Albert Locke angrily ran out to come up with an alternative ending, and Andrew, seeing a group in front of him that he was unable to break, slammed the door in a rage. It's strange: how could Andrew, who himself fused our non-conformist image, seriously expect us to line up in this farce? Charlie cursed Palladium with his last words: "I was against participating in this show from the very beginning, I don't understand why we went there at all," he grumbled. "No one has shown anything worthwhile on such shows yet, except Sammy Davis Jr., and he can perform even right on the street." In addition to the arguments and gossip that filled the newspapers for several weeks, there were even funny statements. The level of these discussions is clearly visible in the following example: "Of course, everyone who has the honor to speak at Sunday Night at the London Palladium is obliged to observe decency and dress respectably," wrote a reader from Essex in the Daily Mirror. "Truly, the Rolling Stones have lowered Britain below the baseboard." Bill Wyman - "Stone Alone" (1990)

There had been bad blood between the Kinks and the Beatles since they played together on the same bill in 1964. John upset Davies backstage by saying, “We’ve lost our set-list, lads. Can we borrow yours?” implying that the Kinks, who had only released two singles at that point, were mere imitators. Paul was more respectful. When the Kinks released “See My Friends” in 1965, a track now widely regarded as one of the first pop songs to use Eastern scales, Paul played it over and over at the apartment of John Dunbar and Marianne Faithfull, and when he saw Ray’s brother Dave at the Scotch, he reputedly joked, “That ‘See My Friend.’ I really like that. I should have written it,” to which Dave retorted, “Well, you didn’t. You can’t do everything.” Ray Davies later commented, “Paul McCartney was one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met. Lennon wasn’t. He just thought everyone else was shit."