Davies' influences are scattered far and wide —but he hasn't always appreciated how musicians have responded to the Kinks' ...

The band’s famously chilled out frontman Ray Davies had a hard time accepting that people thought Eddie Van Halen & co. wrote ...

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies reflects on "Muswell Hillbillies" and "Everybody's in Showbiz" box set, following "Lola" and life with Ray Davies.

Born in 1944 on Muswell Hill (which more or less gave the title to a 1971 album), the singer and principal composer of The ...

The groundbreaking guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about reuniting the iconic band with his brother, relationships with men and women during the swinging Sixties, and his viral tweet about ...

For some it almost heralds the arrival of the heavy metal age, with the band’s young guitarist Dave Davies handling lead guitar duties. While You Really Got Me is perhaps the group’s most ...

Dave Davies also wouldn’t be there. In a Zoom interview from New Jersey, where he now lives part-time, he said that he remains displeased with how the musical portrays the creative process ...

Dave Davies — shown here onstage at the Olympia Hall in Paris, 1964 — famously sliced the speaker of his Elpico AC55 to achieve the distorted electric guitar sound heard on the Kinks' 1964 ...

Dave Davies’s solo career was again interrupted when he suffered a massive stroke in 2004, but four albums followed in rapid succession, from Fractured Mindz (2007) to Open Road (2017).