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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. He took an ...
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 classic ...
The Kinks in 1968 (photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart ...
The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...
The Kinks are one of the bands from the British Invasion of the 1960s that displayed staying power. Although the popularity of their albums waxed and waned throughout the next few decades, they were ...
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 poetic paradox and thus ...