Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’

‘Moby should be careful what he says’ … Dave Davies of the Kinks. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

The Kinks co-founder and guitarist Dave Davies hit back at Moby after the US electronic musician said that he could no longer listen to the band’s 1970 hit Lola on the grounds that he found it “gross and transphobic”.

Moby told the Guardian Saturday magazine’s Honest Playlist feature that he was repulsed by the song after it came up on a Spotify playlist. “I like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are,” he said.