Ray Davies: I thinkthat songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. See, when groups were on the road, they used to go right in the studio and create the same kind of feeling they had on the road, and the stuff they used to cut was influenced by what they did at gigs.
Ray Davies: Maybe people should have a winding down session before listening to our songs. Maybe they should be briefed. Or debriefed. I think they should be debriefed.
Ray Davies: If I had to my life to do over, I would change every single thing I have done.
Ray Davies: I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
The first single that they realised was "Long Tall Sally", a cover of a Little Richard song.
The Davies brothers were born in Muswell Hill (north London). Ray Davies and Pete Quaife were school mates. Rod Stewart grew up in Muswell Hill as well, and went to school with them.
Their song "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (1966) was used in a commercial for an IBM ad.
Wim Wenders, German director made a short film Summer in the City in 1970, dedicated to The Kinks.
The use of loud, abrasive guitar playing and a repetitive chord motif in the 1964 song “You Really Got Me”, would become influential in the future development of heavy metal music.
The Kinks was formed in 1963 by Ray Davies (lead singer-songwriter), his brother Dave Davies (lead guitarist and vocalist) and friend Pete (bass).
The Kinks is #42 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.
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