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 ...

Ray Davies was the singer-songwriter of The Kinks ... Subsequent tracks such as All Day And All Of The Night and Who’ll Be ...

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 ...

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