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LEGENDARY songwriter Ray Davies helped revolutionise music with his band The Kinks - but never got as much credit as contemporaries The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

He might have been a fit for Monty Python. When we met him in the '60s, Kinks frontman Ray Davies was one of many shaggy-haired Brits ripping back the fabric of traditional mores.

A feature film about The Kinks is set to be made. Tentatively titled ' You've Really Got Me ', the film is set to explore the rocky relationship between bandmates and brothers, Ray and Dave Davies .

In a way, "The Kinks Choral Collection," on which Ray Davies has recast his favorite Kinks songs with vocal support from the 65-member Crouch End Festival Chorus, was inevitable.

Just a couple of Thanksgiving tracks, and a lot of sould music from the 70s to give new meaning to the term Black Friday.

As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation.

Ray Davies was very much the charming Kinksman at the Tower Theater on Saturday night, working the crowd like a schooled British vaudevillian, even going so far as to cheekily tell the fired-up Upper Darby crowd that he had just come from New York, "that suburb of Philadelphia." Plus, he kissed a baby who, naturally, was named "Lola." Lots of ...

EDDIE LEDESMA/CONTRA COSTA TIMES/MCT/file Ray Davies was in good spirits Tuesday night at Berklee Performance Center.

As a young boy in the early 1950s, Ray Davies attended a church school in his native north London suburb of Muswell Hill - and that meant singing in the choir, whether you liked it or not.

Today: Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson performs acoustic versions of his band's songs at the Warfield in S.F. Tuesday: '90s alt-rock groundbreakers the Pixies play Fox Theater in Oakland.

After reinterpreting his past for "The Kinks Choral Collection," which comes out Nov.

As music critics, the most common question we get asked is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we'll speak with two of the foremost experts on Soviet and Eastern European affairs: Stephen Kotkin and Stephen Cohen.

Caption: The Kinks lead vocalist Ray Davies outside Ed Sullivan Theatre for the 'Late Show With David Letterman' - Departures New York City, USA .... THE KINKS star RAY DAVIES is considering launching a reality TV talent hunt to find the stars of his planned new musical about the cult 1960s band.

In 1964, the scorching five-chord chorus of "You Really Got Me" changed rock music forever.

The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is an iTunes shuffle of The Kinks.

Written and directed by Ray Davies of the Kinks, this 1984 rock opera contains songs unavailable on any Kinks album.

The Kinks frontman Ray Davies has announced plans to tour the U.S. later this year in support of The Kinks Choral Collection , which hits stores on November 10th.

12 in San Francisco, mixes shows featuring the support of select choirs with concerts alongside Davies' backing band.

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