Ray Davies most recent album was 2010’s collaborative See All My Friends. No follow-up has been announced, but Ray does have a new book, Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story, which will ...
'He wanted to be contrary': Ray Davies in 1967 - Getty For Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, the British Invasion was not all it was cracked up to be. Less than a year after The Beatles opened the ...
Ray Davies formed the Kinks with his younger brother Dave in 1964, and the band had a long, tempestuous, and productive run. The Kinks were among the great creative and commercial forces of the ...
Ray Davies’s first solo album and first new studio album since the Kinks’ Phobia from 1993 might seem like cause for celebration, especially if you’re a young Kinks konvert who hasn’t bothered to ...
After more than 40 years as the Kinks' lead singer and primary songwriter, Ray Davies has released his first solo studio recording, Other People's Lives. Despite the album's title, the music is really ...
For a song that’s two minutes and change in length, “You Really Got Me” has kept guitarists entertained for decades with stories about its creation and recording. The 1964 Kinks classic rose to the ...
LONDON - NOVEMBER 16: (L-R) The Kinks band members Mick Avory, Dave Davies, Peter Quaife and Ray Davies pose backstage with the award for their induction into the UK Music Hall Of Fame 2005, the ...
Well, this has really got us going. It's got us so we don't know what we're doing. Unless what we're doing is clearing our schedules and desperately trying to hunt down some of those elusive tickets ...
In a new interview with BBC’s Channel 4 News, the Kinks‘ Ray Davies is once again teasing a reunion of the iconic British Invasion-era band, as Pitchfork points out. It’s not the first time: Davies ...
Ray Davies has always been one of rock's forgotten heroes. Yes, he's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he's certainly high on just about every thoughtful rocker's list of influences, but while ...
No matter how one views Ray Davies, he is often being sold short. As a songwriter, his voice is as distinctive as any in rock history and his musical source points are about as un-rock 'n' roll as you ...