The band’s famously chilled out frontman Ray Davies had a hard time accepting that people thought Eddie Van Halen & co. wrote ...

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 ...

Exploring the striking satire at the heart of Ray Davies' masterpiece track 'Victoria', released in 1969 by The Kinks and ...

Given The Kinks rose to fame around the same time as The Beatles, their songs were always compared, which Ray Davies ...

In 1965, the notorious future serial killer John Wayne Gacy and so-called "Killer Clown" was working as a salesman at the ...

Born in 1944 on Muswell Hill (which more or less gave the title to a 1971 album), the singer and principal composer of The ...

Ray Davies was one of rock's great eccentric wits, the poet laureate of London's dead-end streets, always rooting for the ...

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 ...

Saturday is Ray Davies’ 70th birthday, but I’m not writing this as an offering or a note of congratulations. Having bought 53 pieces of vinyl or CD plastic by the Kinks, both of his books, his ...

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 at ...

Ray Davies tells the band's biographer, Nick Hasted, how he came to write a genuine anthem. Of all The Kinks' hits, Waterloo Sunset is the one that still casts a spell.

Many of the songs on Ray Davies’ new solo album deal with how it feels to be shot through the heart. But you’d be forgiven for assuming they’re really about getting shot in the leg. The last ...