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

days at the seaside, little bits of love, drabness and things that don't change, stuff like that." Ray Davies, he observed, was never fashionable, and his songs for his band, the Kinks ...

With a sound that was both raw and poetic, The Kinks carved out a legacy in rock history. But which ones are considered their ...

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

While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging ... I went back to my Mum’s house instead, the following day.” Davies vividly recalls the next morning, when he wrote Death ...

Without exception, the early-day hits were as sublime as they were all-encompassing. In the space of just two years, starting when Ray Davies was still a teenager, the group troubled the higher ...

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