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Ray Davies

Rock music
Jazz
Pop rock
The seventh of eight children, Ray Davies was a student at Hornsey College of Art in 1962 when he became lead singer and main songwriter with one of the seminal British 1960s bands, The Kinks. He initially proved his songwriting pedigree with the early R&B hits 'You Really Got Me' and 'All Day and All of the Night' before developing a quintessentially English style influenced by music hall and vaudeville that manifested itself in sardonic lyrics like 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion', and marked him out as a cut above most of the other artists of the era. His solo projects beg...
Songs
X-Ray
X-RayRay Davies

The Storyteller

4:08

Better Things
Better ThingsRay Davies and Bruce Springsteen

See My Friends

Celluloid Heroes
Celluloid Heroes 

live

Bon Jovi and Ray Davies

See My Friends

The Third Single (Dialogue)
The Third Single (Dialogue)Ray Davies

The Storyteller

5:02

Change for Change
Change for ChangeRay Davies

Americana

3:23

Dead End Street
Dead End StreetRay Davies and Amy Macdonald

See My Friends

3:31

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