Ray Davies discussed his unusual vocal delivery on the Kinks’ classic track “Waterloo Sunset,” saying he tried to keep the lyrics hidden from his bandmates as they worked on the tune. In a recent ...

Ray Davies didn't originally want the Kinks to release “Waterloo Sunset” because he wanted to keep the classic song for his family. Released in 1967, the track has achieved wide acclaim over the years ...

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 classic ...

The 1960s was one long party for Dave Davies. While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging London from a distance, The Kinks’ guitarist was aptly dubbed Dave The Rave. He took an ...

According to a comment on X by Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and Little Steven’s Underground Garage, “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks was “the beginning of the modern Hard Rock world as we ...

There aren't many rock icons on the scale of , the leader and chief songwriter of , who was wailing on power chords nearly 50 years ago with the likes of "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of ...

Ray Davies has a new LP on the way entitled See My Friends due on November 1st. The release will see The Kinks frontman pairing with multiple bands to re-record, and sometimes re-imagine, Kinks songs.

CHICAGO — “There was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 ...

As the last night of the Meltdown series, curated by Davies, was it all hopelessly OTT? Short answer: yes. But it was also glorious. As the last night of the Meltdown series, curated by Davies, was it ...

England is in disarray. A generation feels betrayed. And who better to sing about it than the Kinks? “Did you know Boris Johnson has written a book about Churchill?” says Ray Davies, the legendary ...