Ray added that they have around 20 songs for a new album and they hope to eventually make it back to the stage. Where Are Ray and Dave Davies Now? Ray recently turned 80 and Dave is 77.

Ray Davies asks. “I tried it last ... “There’s another song that’s going to be on the deluxe about the shooting, I do it like a cartoon,” he reveals. “‘Stetsons and Sweaty Sombreros ...

Ray Davies has played a number of acoustics over the years from the Martin D-28 pictured, to a Beatles-inspired Gibson J-160E, a Fender Kingman, and even the Ovation bowl-back.

For the 50th anniversary of the record, the Kinks have added b-sides, alternate versions of the songs and outtakes, plus two 7"singles and audio commentary from Ray and Dave Davies.It adds a 60 ...

Ray Davies at the Brecon Jazz festival, Wales in 2015 Credit: Rex There is, as always, subtext to Davies’s songs on Americana. “I’m a narrative freak, which is not good in the job I’ve got.

Sir Ray Davies, front man of the legendary English rock band The Kinks, opened up in a new interview about the 2004 robbery-attempt-turned-shooting that left the rocker with a bullet to the leg ...

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.

Ray Davies, the legendary singer-songwriter behind the Kinks, sounded good performing in an acoustic-duo setting at the Warfield in San Francisco Thursday night. He was even better during the ...

Ray Davies has finished up work on the upcoming 'Arthur' box set and has turned his attention to recording new songs with his brother Dave. Jo Hale/Redferns/Getty Images.

Constructive story ideas have always fascinated Ray Davies. The one-time frontman of The Kinks, and a songwriter long regarded by many as the poet laureate of pop music, prefers detailed work more ...

Ray Davies knows how to tell a story. From his teen years in the early 1960s — when he wrote seemingly simple blues-based numbers amped up to 11 by his pioneering electric guitar slashing ...

If You Really Got Me is the first thing that springs to mind when you think of The Kinks then fear not, you aren’t alone. Their 1964 hit defined an era with that ‘slashed speaker’ sound ...