We were a working-class band with upper class aspiration,” says Ray Davies. “Born at a wonderful time in an evolving world. I hope I reflected some of that world in my songs.” The 79-year ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of ...

The man behind hits like “You Really Got Me” and “Lola” is ready to tell his story.Dave Davies, the co-founder and lead ...

In a new interview on BBC Channel 4, Ray Davies says he, brother Dave Davies and drummer Mick Avory are back together as The Kinks. “The trouble is, the two remaining members – my brother ...

Kinks frontman Ray Davies wrote a staggering number of songs during the band’s early years. For proof, look no further than The Anthology 1964-1971, a new 139-track collection that includes 25 ...

The Kinks' Ray Davies was always longing for the past and cultural tradition, but was his conservative version of England ever real in the first place?

These days, when Ray Davies listens to his band’s masterstroke, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, it’s with “a bit of misery.” The frustration he was feeling ...

But The Kinks? Well, the clue was right there in their name. Lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies was a lot more complicated but was as big a talent as Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger or any of ’em.

Ray Davies recalled how much 'Village Green' felt like it was a musical "death wish" because it came at a crossroads when it would either make or break them.

Ray Davies, born Raymond Douglas Davies on June 21, 1944, in Fortis Green, London, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, ...

The Kinks were formed in London in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, a pair of gifted musicians who would also become ...