Ray Davies found the modern world a bit unnerving. "20th Century Man" brings those concerns to the fore via a character in ...

Beatles gig in Bournemouth which saw the band develop a rivalry with Ray Davies and The Kinks, days before 'You Really Got Me' was released.

Ray Davies has always marched to the beat of his own drum, which is perhaps why The Kinks never achieved the same colossal ...

Arts writer Geoff Edgers produced and starred in a 2010 documentary, “Do It Again,” about his quirky quest to convince Ray and Dave Davies to reunite the Kinks (spoiler: He failed), during ...

Ray Davies, he observed, was never fashionable, and his songs for his band, the Kinks, were "as pared as nursery rhymes." Cohn wrote that in 1969, when the Kinks were on the outs in their native ...

The Kinks enjoyed two decades of US chart success, but what was the last song of theirs to reach the American Top 40?

Ray Davies was the singer-songwriter of The Kinks’ first hit, but it was kid brother Dave Davies who created its fuzzed-up guitar sound by slashing his amp’s speaker with a razor in hooligan ...

The four surviving Davies sisters, meanwhile ... Dave, meanwhile, has his own happy memories of time with Ray during The Kinks’ heyday. “When my boys from my first marriage were small ...

(CNN)-- Even Rock and Roll Hall of Famers aren't free from the hassles of touring. During a phone interview from Tasmania, where Kinks frontman Ray Davies is scheduled to play an afternoon concert ...

But around 1967 or so, when everyone else started exploring the boundaries of psychedelia, Kinks singer and songwriter Ray Davies dipped back to his native England’s Victorian period ...

What happens when you build your life — and your friendships — around a band that can't keep it together forever.