Ray Davies thought that The Kinks were on the verge of separating, and he inadvertently wrote one of their most poignant ...

The band’s famously chilled out frontman Ray Davies had a hard time accepting that people thought Eddie Van Halen & co. wrote ...

The guitarist blamed boring guitar sounds and his own love of imperfection for his actions, saying, "That sound was born out ...

T he Kinks' frontman Ray Davies has named the song that he doesn't enjoy being compared to The Beatles. It is not unusual for ...

Exploring the striking satire at the heart of Ray Davies' masterpiece track 'Victoria', released in 1969 by The Kinks and ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of ...

Saturday is Ray Davies’ 70th birthday, but I’m not writing this as an offering or a note of congratulations. Having bought 53 pieces of vinyl or CD plastic by the Kinks, both of his books, his ...

These days, when Ray Davies listens to his band’s masterstroke, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, it’s with “a bit of misery.”The frustration he was feeling at ...

Ray Davies has played a number of acoustics over the years from the Martin D-28 pictured, to a Beatles-inspired Gibson J-160E ...

Ray Davies tells the band's biographer, Nick Hasted, how he came to write a genuine anthem. Of all The Kinks' hits, Waterloo Sunset is the one that still casts a spell.

The story and music of The Kinks belong on Broadway. No question. We’ve had “Jersey Boys,” “The Who’s Tommy,” Beatlemanias, The Doors and “Stereophonic.” Ray Davies’ band was a ...

The Kinks' frontman Ray Davies has named the song that he doesn't enjoy being compared to The Beatles.It is not unusual for the two bands to be compared, given that they were both making music ...