This isn’t the first time a tribute to Ray Davies has ever been offered. After all, Davies is one of the most prolific frontmen of all time.

I think I’m still trying to find out if I’m that good.” The Kinks’ Mick Avory, from left, Pete Quaife, Dave Davies and Ray Davies, in 1967.

The Davies brothers were famous for their battles, and one can only assume Ray was careful not to provoke Dave. Besides, he said, his brother’s sense of arrangement was correct.

Danny Horn (as Ray Davies) and Ana Margaret Marcu (Rasa) in "Sunny Afternoon" in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. (Carol Rosegg) Danny Horn (as Ray), Oliver Hoare (Dave), Ana ...

Every 10 years or so, the Kinks catalog from the ’60s is reappraised as the stunning example of genius it always was. Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the ...

Ray Davies was one of rock’s great eccentric wits, the poet laureate of London’s dead-end streets, always rooting for the losers and the outsiders. His kid brother, Dave, played some of the ...

Danny Horn as Ray Davies of the Kinks during a rehearsal of “Sunny Afternoon,” a new musical which opens soon at Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier on March 18, 2025.

Sir Ray Davies after being knighted by the Prince of Wales in 2017. (John Stillwell / Getty Images) The cover of a Kinks song he loves the most: Peggy Lee’s “ I Go to Sleep ” (1965) ...

The Davies brothers were famous for their battles, and one can only assume Ray was careful not to provoke Dave. Besides, he said, his brother’s sense of arrangement was correct.