Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar ... as a result of the dozens of classic tunes he penned as frontman of the Kinks, including “You Really Got Me,” “All Day ...

Great songs were just pouring out of Davies – with “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” next to drop. open image in gallery The Kinks’ Sir Ray Davies after he was knighted by the Prince of ...

For Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, the British Invasion was not all what it was cracked up to be. Less than a year after The Beatles opened the floodgates with their appearance on the Ed ...

The 1960s was one long party for Dave Davies. While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging London from a distance, The Kinks’ guitarist was aptly dubbed Dave The Rave.

Revisiting the revolutionary era of angry young men, which placed a cultural focus on working-class stories, reflected in the writing of The Kinks' Ray Davies ...

The Kinks were formed in London in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, a pair of gifted musicians who would also become ...

The Kinks started out their career with a pair of rocking, fuzzed-out singles that helped establish the garage rock genre. But chief songwriter Ray Davies soon moved well beyond that template to ...

We can’t be afraid of new ideas. That’s what art is for!” open image in gallery The Kinks in 1964: (l-r) Singer Ray Davies, drummer Mick Avory, bass player Pete Quaife and guitarist Dave ...

“I WAS terrible at maths,” admits Ray Davies. The Kinks frontman, chief songwriter and master storyteller is sifting through the mists of time to his troubled schooldays. “I was so awful at ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British ...

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 ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar ... as a result of the dozens of classic tunes he penned as frontman of the Kinks, including “You Really Got Me,” “All Day ...