Ray and Dave Davies were the youngest of eight children whose ages spanned almost 30 years; the six elder siblings were all girls. The Davies family home was a tiny house in the London suburb of ...

Dave was the youngest of the eight Davies children, with six older sisters ... including his older brother Ray. “I count myself very lucky to grow up in that environment,” says the self ...

But the Kinks? Well, the clue was right there in their name. Lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies was a lot more complicated but was as big a talent as Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger or any of ’em.

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 ...

But The Kinks? Well, the clue was right there in their name. Lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies was a lot more complicated but was as big a talent as Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger or any of ’em.

But most of all think The Kinks, where the usual animosities were amplified by the sibling rivalry between Ray and Dave Davies. The brothers' feud (still raging today) was carried over from their ...