Ray Davies contributed vocals and lyrics to the song “Graceville (I’ll Take You There)” on Bill Shanley’s new solo album, Midnight Mission, in stores today. [10] Over the course of a dozen evocative songs, Arthur fulfils its ambitious subtitle as Davies embellishes an intimate family chronicle with satirical observations about the shifting mores of the English working class in response to the declining fortunes of the British Empire. He began to explore the aspirations and frustrations of common working-class people, with particular emphasis on the psychological effects of the British class system. He is very low key. [44], Ray Davies has had a tempestuous relationship with younger brother Dave, the Kinks' lead guitarist, which "dominated" the Kinks' career as a band and has kept a full reunion from taking place. [24][25], He was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the arts. Ray at his Rough Trade East album event in London! The 32-year-old, along with 55-year-old Simon Medhurst, had superglued themselves together around the drill site’s gate on July 31st to create a “striking and symbolic” media image, according to The BBC, to raise awareness about fracking (a technique to fracture shale rock and retrieve natural gasses within). But when Alice Kingston, principal of Ballinadee National School, asked him for help earlier this year he quickly agreed to do a gig to raise badly needed funds. Chrissie Hynde, Ray Davies. [47], The following is a list of Davies compositions that were chart hits for artists other than The Kinks. "We badly needed a resource room. July 12, 2018 A Closer Look At Ray Davies & His Stop At Rough Trade East in London. It was directed by Des McAnuff and ran at the La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre in San Diego from 23 August to 9 October 1988. ", 1968; "Picture Book", 1968; "Young and Innocent Days", 1969; "Moments", 1971; "Schooldays", 1975). 1905). “If it did [obstruct access to the site], then great,” Hynde said. [citation needed], On 4 January 2004, Davies was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who had snatched the purse of his companion as they walked in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. 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Davies, who has been described as the Poet Laureate of popular music, is an unassuming type. Directed by Adrian Shergold, the choreography was by Charles Augins and Jim Rodford played bass with the theatre's "house band". © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. He liked to hang out in pubs and was considered a ladies' man. Right here at FameChain. A definitive testament to Davies' reputation as a songwriter of insight, empathy and wit can be heard on the Kinks' landmark 1969 album Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). A rare foray into early psychedelic rock, "See My Friends" is credited by Jonathan Bellman as the first Western pop song to integrate Indian raga sounds—released six months before the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[8]. Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (/ˈdeɪvɪz/ DAY-viz;[1] born 21 June 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. [citation needed], Davies wrote songs for a musical version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days; the show, 80 Days, had a book by playwright Snoo Wilson. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. [26], In 1981, Davies collaborated with Barrie Keeffe in writing his first stage musical, Chorus Girls, which opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London,[27] starring Marc Sinden, and had a supporting cast of Michael Elphick, Anita Dobson, Kate Williams and Charlotte Cornwell. When the Kinks changed record labels from RCA to Arista in 1976, Davies abandoned his then-recent propensity for ambitious, theatrical concept albums and rock operas (see above), and returned to writing more basic, straightforward songs. This period on the RCA label (1971–75) produced Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace. Get your copy on CD… Read More. Occasionally, he varied the group's sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga ("Fancy", 1966), bossa nova ("No Return", 1967) and calypso ("I'm on an Island", 1965; "Monica", 1968; "Apeman", 1970; "Supersonic Rocket Ship", 1972). I write songs because I get angry, and now I'm at the stage where it's not good enough to brush it off with humour. A collaborations album, See My Friends, was released in November 2010 with a US release to follow in early 2011.[21]. Beginning with "A Well Respected Man" and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (both recorded in the summer of 1965), Davies' lyrics assumed a new sociological character.
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