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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kinks frontman Ray Davies wrote a staggering number of songs during the band’s early years. For proof, look no further than The Anthology 1964-1971, a new 139-track collection that includes 25 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

L-R Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Ray Davies, Mick Avory. (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns) Jagger and the gang made a massive return to UK stadiums in 2018, when Ray was promoting his solo album ‘Our ...