Ray Davies and a host of celebrity friends join SANE at the launch of the Black Dog Campaign

25th Anniversary celebration at Meltdown Festival

Ray Davies, rock legend and former lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, is joined by cast members to sing the chorus of Be Happy, one of his new songs written for the concert

Left to right: The Leisure Society, Ray Davies, Clive Anderson, Marjorie Wallace, KT Tunstall, James Walbourne, Ronan Magill, Jane Asher and Beverley Knight

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Meltdown concert with Ray Davies, Clive Anderson and friends

Ray Davies and Scottish chart-topper KT Tunstall singing a rousing, toe-tapping duet I Wanna Be Like You from The Jungle Book

Actors Clive Francis and Nigel Planer in Tony Hancock’s

Blood Donor sketch

Clive Anderson in typically top form as the witty compere for the evening interviewing SANE’s Chief Executive

Actress and SANE patron Jane Asher reading

Robert Schumann’s poignant letters to his wife Clara Wieck

about his fears of mental illness. Internationally renowned

concert pianist Ronan Magill played Schumann’s Traumerei

and the rarely heard Ghost Variations

Ray Davies and The Leisure Society performing his song SANE

Took a visit to the doc - and he

listened while I talked a lot about panic,

anxiety and strain but he smiled and told me, “You’re not crazy,

quite sane, S-A-N-E ‘SANE’ ”

Thanks to Alan Davidson for the photographs; Jude Kelly, Artistic

Director of the Southbank Centre and Jane Beese, Director

of the Meltdown Festival

Beverley Knight, the soul and

R&B singer, performing

Touch the Hem of His Garment by Sam Cooke

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