“What I try to do probably doesn’t come out. What I’ve worked out what I do – I might not be right – is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again – a better man.”
Ray Davies, formerly of the Kinks
So last night Ray Davies played the Chicago Theatre for a packed house including myself and my daughter. There was a moment at the end when everyone was spelling out and singing L-O-L-A Lola , and Ray was...Read Full Story
What a privilege it was to be at the Royal Festival Hall last evening for what must have been the gig of the year, if not the decade. I may have to revise this statement in the days and weeks to come, but it surpassed even the sublime Leonard Cohen at the O2 in 2008, a concert about which I went on at length, here . Alexis Petridis had everything right in his review for The Guardian, but he didn't give much of a sense of what it was like to be there. I can't remember such an atmosphere at the...Read Full Story
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Veteran rocker Ray Davies paid a surprise visit to a U.K. village hall on Friday (16Dec11) to watch a group of children perform a musical inspired by The Kinks. The British star used the band's hits to create Child's Play, which chronicles the last 60 ...
Veteran rocker Ray Davies paid a surprise visit to a U.K. village hall on Friday (16Dec11) to watch a group of children perform a musical inspired by The Kinks. The British star used the band's hits to create Child's Play, which chronicles the last 60 ...
Dozens of people attended a Lake District village venue to enjoy a musical play written by Kinks singer Ray Davies. Six students from John ... including repainting the hall and building a library to develop it into a cultural centre. The performance ...
The Kinks' former frontman Ray Davies attended the production of his school 'Child Play' in Cumbria yesterday (December 16). The singer joined a 110-strong audience for the sell-out performance at the Coniston Institute. Speaking before the show, which ...
Polito, Robert, Bits of Me Scattered Everywhere: Ray Davies and the Kinks, p. 119–144 in Eric Weisbard, ed., This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01344-1 (paper). Kitts, Thomas, Ray Davies, Not Like ...
Ray Davies, CBE (born Raymond Douglas Davies, 21 June 1944, Fortis Green, London) is an English rock musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the ...
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