Ray Davies ( born Ray Davies , born June 21, 1944 ) is a British musician, best known as vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the rock band Kinks [3] .
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The music site AllMusic calls Ray Davis “distinctly ( English distinctively ) an English songwriter and one of the greatest songwriters of his country” [3] .
Biography
According to AllMusic, the Kinks group in reality was nothing more than the accompanying group of Davis, who wrote alone and as lead singer of almost all the songs of the group. His brother Dave (lead guitarist Kinks) also contributed, but not regularly [3] .
The Kinks group turned out to be one of the longest-lived British rock bands that were once part of the British invasion of the 1960s. Ray Davis sometimes threatened to disband the group and start a solo career, but for many years the threats remained threats [3] .
The closest thing to starting a solo career (over the many years since the founding of the group) was his solo soundtrack to the 1985 movie Return to Waterloo , which he shot himself (as a director) in his own script, but he’s not going anywhere from the group gone. Moreover, it should be noted that this soundtrack could have been taken for the Kinks album in terms of sounding, to such an extent it did not stand out from their line [3] .
And yet in the 1990s, the Kinks group activity gradually began to fade, and Davis began to engage in other projects. His first project was a 1995 book of half-fictional memoirs called X-Ray , in support of sales of which he gave a series of concerts entitled Storyteller (The Storyteller). At these concerts he performed both classic Kinks songs and his new songs, read excerpts from the aforementioned book and other stories. These concerts then kicked off several more Davis projects: a series of shows on VH1 (also called Storyteller ) and a short story book (its name was also Storyteller ). In addition, the recording of one of his acoustic concerts in 1998 was released as a separate album, The Storyteller . (This was Davis's second solo album, the very same in 1985 that same soundtrack to the film Return to Waterloo .) [3]
Since then, he has released several more music albums and a second book of memoirs entitled Americana (2013) [3] .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118839950 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ray Davies - Biography & History . AllMusic . The appeal date is May 9, 2017.
Links
- Ray Davis on AllMusic