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  1. 3 de abr. de 2024 · On the album See My Friends (2010) Davies reinterpreted some of the Kinks’ best-known songs with help from prominent rockers such as Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Metallica. In 2013 Davies published a memoir, Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story.

  2. 25 de mar. de 2024 · By the mid-1970s, The Kinks were washed-up, worn out, and weighed down by the theatrical excesses of Ray Davies obsession with concept albums. But you can’t keep a good band down for long, and in 1977, they kicked their way back into the mainstream with Sleepwalker.The album heralded their return to the punchy rock and roll of their early years.

  3. 2 de abr. de 2024 · Once Ray’s girlfriend found an empty pill bottle backstage, he was immediately rushed to the hospital, stating when he walked in, “I’m Ray Davies, and I’m dying.”. Even though the whole thing may have been chalked up to him losing track of how much he was taking, Ray saw the episode as a deliberate suicide attempt.

  4. 24 de mar. de 2024 · Spearheaded by the songwriting of Ray Davies and with close ties to the fashionable mod subculture, The Kinks are rightly hailed as one of the greatest British rock groups of all time. Despite their success and their reputation as giants of the 1960s, The Kinks weren’t all too pleased with the prevailing image of the decade.

  5. 6 de abr. de 2024 · Kinks frontman Sir Ray Davies. When the critic Edna Longley finds “characteristic notes of nostalgia, desire, ironic distaste, elegy … and neurosis” in the coruscating earlier poetry of T.S. Eliot, she could equally well be making a Kinks’ song checklist as, increasingly, the group hymned a world defined by loss.

  6. 1 de abr. de 2024 · Song Information. The iconic song “Lola” by The Kinks was released as a single in 1970 and remains one of their most popular songs. Written by Ray Davies, the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the band, “Lola” touched on themes of gender ambiguity and unconventional love.

  7. 9 de abr. de 2024 · This DVD contains some of the Kinks finest moments and is full of rarely seen performances from the sixties through the nineties with comments from band members including Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory.