Sunny Afternoon” — 3 stars The folks at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are nothing if not considerate. On opening night of ...

Sunny Afternoon” tells the tuneful tale of the brothers Davies, Ray and Dave – bandleader and founder of The Kinks. They ...

It’s getting its North American premiere on Navy Pier with a British and Chicago cast — expect the story of the British Invasion band and songs like “You Really Got Me” and “Lola.” ...

The 1960s was one long party for Dave Davies. While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging London from a distance, The Kinks’ guitarist was aptly dubbed Dave The Rave.

The Kinks were formed in London in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, a pair of gifted musicians who would also become legendary feuding siblings long before the Gallaghers made family rifts a ...

Ray Davies’ band was a poetic paradox and thus far more interesting theatrically than all of ’em. Where to start? We have a British invasion pop band that refused to entertain teenagers with ...

(CNN)-- Even Rock and Roll Hall of Famers aren't free from the hassles of touring. During a phone interview from Tasmania, where Kinks frontman Ray Davies is scheduled to play an afternoon concert ...

For Ray Davies, personal issues came to a head in July 1973, when he announced onstage that he was quitting the Kinks.

Before seeing the North American premiere of “Sunny Afternoon” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, I didn't know much about the ...

Minute by minute report, via text message, by the BBC's Ian Sadler. Read more... Valerie Kape I have seen Ray three times this year but this was an amazing concert and I loved every minute of it.

The story and music of The Kinks belong on Broadway. An anti-establishment foursome whose elegiac music spoke of longing for lost British innocence, as really existing only in Davies’ own, now justly ...

“My songwriting has been my ally through life,” Davies muses, “because I ain’t got much else.” Words: Nick Hasted Baroque, introspective pop classics, mostly written after Ray’s ...