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Ray Davies Wiki Biography

Raymond Douglas Davies was born on 21 June 1944, in Fortis Green, London, England, and is a musician, best known for being the vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter for The Kinks. He was part of the band along with his younger brother Dave, and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Ray Davies? As of early-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $2.6 million, mostly earned through a successful career in the music industry. He has also acted, produced, and directed shows for television as well as theatre. After the end of the Kinks in 1996, he went on to have a successful solo career. All of these ensured the position of his wealth.

While studying art at Hornsey College of Art, Davies became increasingly interested in music. He eventually started performing, and became the guitarist for the Dave Hunt Band for six weeks. In 1963, he would perform with the Hamilton King Band, and later formed the Ramrods which would eventually become the Kinks. They signed their first contract in 1964, with Ray subsequently becoming the chief songwriter of the band.

A few of their early recordings were mixes of R&B standard covers and melodic music. They also produced hard rock tracks including “You Really Got Me” which helped boost their popularity. However in 1965, they would start making softer sounds and experimented with various genres. They tried psychedelic rock and even integrated Indian raga sounds to their song “See My Friends”. In 1966, they released their first completely original material album entitled “Face to Face”, and started to focus their lyrics on the lives of the working-class.

Some of their singles include “A House in the Country” and “Most Exclusive Residence for Sale”. Later on they would explore the bleaker side of life including poverty, in songs such as “Situation Vacant” and “Dead End Street”, so during this time up to the 1970s, the Kinks would perform many songs aimed at the celebration of British culture. A lot of their songs explored sociological issues, and it continued to add to Davies’ song writing skill. One of their most popular albums during this era was “Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)”. Davis’ net worth was growing steadily.

In 1976, the Kinks switched to Arista records, and stopped making theatrical concept albums, producing more straightforward songs featuring newer production techniques. Some of the albums they released during this period include “Misfits” and “Sleepwalker”. In the 1980s, they started doing a more mainstream rock style, releasing their last four albums – “Low Budget”, “Give the People What They Want”, “State of Confusion” and “Word of Mouth”.

After the end of the Kinks’ run, Davies started to do solo work, and would eventually release five solo albums, including “Return to Waterloo” alongside a series he directed and would also release an EP entitled “The Tourist”. He also published an autobiography entitled “X-Ray” in 1994 and would follow this up with a collection of short stories in 1997 entitled “Waterloo Sunset”. He also continued with directorial work, and created the choral album “The Kinks Choral Collection”. One of his latest appearances was joining his brother Dave and performing “You Really Got Me” in 2015.

For his personal life, it is known that Ray has been married three times. His first marriage was to Rasa Dicpetris(1964-73) and they had two daughters. He then married Yvonne Gunner(1974-81), and later had a relationship with Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders; the two had a daughter. His third marriage would be to ballet dancer Patricia Crosbie, and they would also have a daughter before divorcing in 1993. It is known that Ray attempted suicide through an overdose in 1973 after the end of his first marriage. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He also suffered a gunshot wound in his leg in 2004, while chasing thieves who snatched the purse of his companion.

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Ray Davies Quick Info

Ray Davies Trademarks

1. Sizeable gap in between his front teeth.
2. Distinctive English Accent
3. Often wrote songs about the music business
4. Songs often deal with the changing values of his native England and the decline of the British Empire.
5. His introspective songwriting method.

Ray Davies Quotes

• I think Dave [brother Dave Davies], as a guitarist, he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. He’s an erratic player but he gets inspired and he plays some great things. Dave invented that sound and it was really great, that’s why the part of the book I like and the part I do on stage is recounting when we did that song, when we recorded that because it was a pivotal moment to our band.
• I didn’t want to write an ordinary autobiography because it just didn’t interest me, recounting things that I remember that happened. I thought if I had this device of using a young journalist, who basically is me anyway, meeting myself when I’m seventy years old, that would be a nice way to get the young and the old approach. So the older guy is looking back and the young kid really is experiencing everything for the first time and rock music does that. Every time you go out and play stuff every show has got to feel as though it’s the first time you’re doing it. So that made it entertaining for me to write and also let me stand back and let me observe myself and look at myself more objectively, I think. -on writing his unconventional autobiography
• Well it’s good. I think the similarity is that I think they’re writing songs….. Music goes in phases and in England it goes around fairly quickly. The fashions come in and out and I think what they are doing is writing songs about things they know about, which is where they come from and the local stories. I think that’s where the similarities with the Kinks is because I think our early records were like that. For a long time, particularly in the 1980’s, I think English bands were trying to sound like, writing about American experiences or drawing on things out of their own experience and knowledge and that tends to make the music sound different. I think lyrically Blur and Oasis, they’re are very similar in that respect.
• I think because it was the first time that music had been done on such a scale with lots of bands coming from, basically working class origins and making music and not being particularly pretty. You know the pretty boy image really wasn’t the thing. The Hollies were great to us, they helped me a lot and very supportive and in a way I suppose The Beatles were as well. -on British rock music in the mid-1960s
• I think the inspiration for a lot of those early songs, I didn’t realize it so much until I finished the book and read the proofs back, was a big family influence on me. Obviously when you are starting out you don’t really see that, it’s only when you look back and you appraise things, I guess you see where the real inspiration came form.
• Every song has its own voodoo attached to it.
• Obviously the person who shot me, I think he was a career criminal, he knew what he was doing it was premeditated, he knew what he was doing. It made me really sort of think about the issue of gun control. I’m not a violent person. I’m an athletic person, I’m a competitive person. That kind of violence is abhorrent to me. I get passionate, I get angry but I wouldn’t think of doing that to anybody. I went through a phase in the hospital, I nearly died at one point because of complications with my heart. But I actually felt sorry for him to have actually reached that point. He wasn’t a desperate guy but he kind of looked scared. We had eyeball contact. It made me think, not so much about gun control but what actually drives humans to actually do that, to get in that spectrum. It’s a bigger, bigger bigger spectrum than this. It leads to warfare, why people fight, why people have wars, all these horrors going on in the world, it just opened up all these questions that are still unanswered and I still haven’t come to terms with it yet. I was very lucky to escape.
• Keep you nose clean and your chin up, even if it requires surgery.
• The Kaiser Chiefs are funny, “Employment” was good, though I’m not quite sure whether they’re supposed to be The Pretty Things or The Rolling Stones.
• When in doubt, trust your paranoia.
• We had a singing family. If we’d been in Appalachia, we would have been a Country & Western family. We had all that inbreeding, too – the Second World War was quite a time.
• If I had to my life to do over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Ray Davies Important Facts

• Crouch End, London, England [May 2009]
• He was born in Muswell Hill, London, England. He and his brother Dave Davies have six older sisters. They lived on Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, London, England.
• Despite its heavy guitar sound, he actually wrote “You Really Got Me” on his parent’s piano.
• He is a big fan of and considers himself in the tradition of William Blake.
• The Kinks were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame for their outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture. (16 November 2005).
• His song “Waterloo Sunset” won the 2005 Q Classic Song Award.
• Winner of the 2006 Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
• “Very Gothic, creepy and silent. Uptight and fearful of everyone.” – Marianne Faithfull’s description of Davies and The Kinks.
• In an early stage of The Kinks, before Davies was willing to be the lead singer, they recruited Rod Stewart (who grew up in the same area as the Davies brothers, Muswell Hill) as a singer. After a couple of weeks of trying to be a band, Stewart and the future Kinks found that they did not get along that well, with their musical tastes being too different, and parted ways.
• With four to five band members at one time, there have been 11 members of The Kinks, with only Ray and his brother Dave Davies having belonged since the founding of the group. They have gone through two drummers (Mick Avory and Bob Henrit), three keyboardists (John Gosling, Gordon Edwards, and Ian Gibbins), and four bass-guitarists (Peter Quaife, John Dalton, Andy Pyle, and Jim Rodford).
• The Kinks were voted the 64th Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
• The original name of The Kinks was The Ravens.
• When The Kinks opened a show on the same bill as The Beatles, The Beatles (in particularly John Lennon) behaved rudely and dismissively towards them. However, when The Kinks released their more introspective album “Face to Face”, Lennon was said to have listened to it obsessively.
• One of the most admired British songwriters, his songs have been covered by hundreds of artists. Well known versions of his songs include The Jam’s “David Watts”, The Pretenders’ “Stop Your Sobbing”, The Stranglers’ “All Day and All of the Night”, David Bowie’s “Where Have All the Good Times Gone” and Van Halen’s “You Really Got Me”.
• The Kinks’ single, “See My Friends”, was the first British songs (and possibly Western) to integrate a Indian, sitar-like sound. This song and, shortly thereafter, the similarly sitar-based “Fancy” preceded the first Beatles song with an Indian feel, “Norwegian Wood”, by a year.
• His British rock contemporary Pete Townshend has said that Ray Davies is probably his favorite songwriter of all time.
• Director Wes Anderson originally intended to have the whole of Rushmore (1998) set to songs by The Kinks. Anderson changed his mind when he wanted to use a series of songs by other bands from the “British Invasion”, although he kept the Davies/Kinks song, “Nothin’ In This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl”.
• Davies was in many ways unique among the frontmen in British rock bands from the 1960s. He never got into drugs or affiliated himself with “hippie” culture (nor did his band), although The Kinks did present themselves as hard-drinking. Davies was also never a Lothario in the ranks with his contemporaries, and he married at a very young age. By all accounts a quiet, unapproachable type off stage, Davies had a series of nervous breakdowns as a young man, which led to him being hospitalized twice.
• He is the uncle of writer/producer, Lawrence Kane, who helped Ray recover from his gunshot wound in New Orleans.
• He has another daughter with dancer, Pat Crosby.
• In 2003, when a mugger stole his girlfriend’s purse, he valiantly chased the man but was then shot in the leg by the thief.
• He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen’s New Year’s Eve Honours List for his services to music.
• Sadly, he has barely been on speaking terms with his brother and musical collaborator Dave since they recorded their last album as The Kinks in the early 1990s.
• His song “Apeman” was covered by former Marillion singer Fish on his album “Songs From the Mirror” (released 1993).
• Fathered a child, Natalie Rae Hynde, with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders while still married to his second wife.
• Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Kinks) in 1990.
• Older brother of Dave Davies.
• Rock musician (The Kinks).

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