Ray Davies
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Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 November 1967
THERE is something of the smoking volcano about Ray Davies. Six foot of suppressed quietly spoken, quietly smiling and quietly watching! It is what some ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 23 January 1992
The King Kink on politics; songwriting (and titling!); cover versions of his songs; on Joe Meek and Noel Coward; on Chrissie Hynde, and on living with his songs for so many years.
File format: mp3; file size: 49.5mb, interview length: 54' 07" sound quality: ****
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, February 2006
The King Kink on getting shot in New Orleans, his relationship with brother Dave, his childhood and upbringing, and on songwriting and lyrics, plus so much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 56mb, total interview length: 58' 21" sound quality: ****
List of articles in the library
The Definitive Ray Davies Interview
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, January 1973
Glenn O'Brien, with the help of Warhol Superstars Candy Darling and Tinkerbelle, talks to Kink Ray Davies ...
Guide by Alan Betrock, ZigZag, January 1975
KINK RAY DAVIES is a well respected man when it comes to composing, and dozens of his compositions are justly regarded as classics. There really ...
The Kinks: Low Budget (Arista)
Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
THE TROUBLE with Ray Davies is that since he forsook the stark, three-chord spleen of 'You Really Got Me' and 'All Day & All Of ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, September 1981
MINNEAPOLIS: "It's like death in here," Ray Davies says, inauspiciously welcoming me into Marquette Inn room 1453. The shades are drawn, no lights are on. ...
Ray Davies: Sadness and A Kind Of Fame
Interview by Johnny Black, The Sunday Times, 18 March 1984
RAY DAVIES has always been a rough diamond. The famous gap-toothed smile is still there, he mumbles through his polysyllables and, bit by bit, he ...
Ray Davies Gets the Kinks Out Musically
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 6 December 1986
BY VIRTUE OF its title, The Kinks' new Think Visual album should have a more elaborate cover. Instead it is only an exaggerated supergraphic, with ...
Kontemplating the Kinks: Nothing's as Bad as Ray Davies Thinks
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, January 1987
RAY DAVIES, we've always been told, is quintessentially English. The classic Kinks songs of the '60s – 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Waterloo Sunset' ...
Interview by Stuart Maconie, MOJO, June 1994
It's an exacting, exhilarating discipline: everything you want to say condensed into 180 seconds. "It's the ultimate song structure and I hope it'll never die." ...
Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, April 1997
What's happening in Kink land? ...
Kinks: The Singles Collection/Waterloo Sunset — The Songs Of Ray Davies
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, December 1997
It's a shame about Ray: Classic chartbreakers and their creator's solo furrow ...
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, January 1998
How do you feel about this so-called line of classic quintessentially English songwriters starting with you, continuing with Paul Weller and ending with Damon Albarn? ...
Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 4 October 2001
IT HAS BEEN less than a week since the terrorist attacks, and Ray Davies just doesn't have his mind on music. ...
Ray Davies at Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 1 October 2004
"It's been a very difficult year for everybody," Ray Davies admits, the nearest he gets to acknowledging his being shot in the leg by muggers ...
Ray Davies: Return To Waterloo/Come Dancing With The Kinks
Film/DVD/TV Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
Double bill of Ray Davies' '80s video output ...
Ray Davies (2006) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages transcripts, February 2006
This is a transcript of Gavin's audio interview with Ray. Hear the interview here ...
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Record Collector, February 2006
RAY DAVIES, the leader of the Kinks, is back in circulation after an extended layoff, due to getting shot in New Orleans while trying to ...
Rock of the Aged: Morrison, Gilmour, Davies, Fagen
Review by Steven Ward, Las Vegas Weekly, 23 March 2006
YOU KNOW WHAT Van Morrison, David Gilmour, Ray Davies and Donald Fagen have in common, besides their royal rank in rock geezerdom? They have new ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2007
"MY SONGWRITING has been my ally through life," Ray Davies muses, "because I ain't got much else." As the creative force behind the Kinks, Davies ...
Ray Davies: A Dedicated Chronicler of Fashions
Profile and Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 28 November 2010
IN LATE 1965, Ray Davies threw a party. One of his guests was a clothes designer, and as Davies recalled: "I got pissed off with ...
The dramatic ups and downs of Ray Davies
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, July 2012
RAY DAVIES is not an easy man to pin down. Our interview is planned for 5pm at a café in Highgate. No, hang on; it's ...
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, February 2015
WELL RESPECTED certainly but hardly a flower to be looked at and most unlikely to laze around in the afternoon, sunny or otherwise. The life ...
see also Kinks, The
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