F or Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, the British Invasion was not all what it was cracked up to be.Less than a year after The Beatles opened the floodgates with their appearance on the Ed ...

Dave Davies of The Kinks learned the hard way that sometimes, you should keep your comments to your bandmates to yourself.

The Kinks were formed in London in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, a pair of gifted musicians who would also become legendary feuding siblings long before the Gallaghers made family rifts a ...

The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week, hitting the top 10 on two of them, decades after it was first released.

Minute by minute report, via text message, by the BBC's Ian Sadler. Read more... Valerie Kape I have seen Ray three times this year but this was an amazing concert and I loved every minute of it.

Bob Dylan inspired Ray Davies of The Kinks to write “Sunny Afternoon”, but it wasn’t “inspiration” in the general sense. While writing the song, Davies was exhausted and over it living in London. He ...

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Meet Gaynor and Ray Davies from Cardiff - two fifty-something newlyweds, both married for a second time. Gaynor's first marriage ended when she discovered her husband was unfaithful (multiple times); ...

Long before the Pretenders made ‘I Go To Sleep’ their own, there was the 1965 version by the great vocal stylist. Many fans of the Pretenders who helped their 1981 single “I Go To Sleep ...