Fantastic! The greatest singer/songwriter of my 74 years!

Ray stands alone on the Kinks pedestal. But can't deny the contributions of brother Dave. Dave's singing and playing a MAJOR part of the Kinks sound!🙌🎶🎵🎸

I am so glad this all was saved on film. It makes my heart melt. Thankyou.

The absolute speak of British pop music. No rules, just pure freedom and that’s why we love it to this day. I teach young kids and even their favourites are those 60s songs along with some stuff from the other golden age of music in the 90s. Peace brothers and sisters ✌🏼

as long as i can hear Ray and Dave sing together and Dave smiling---I am in Paradise---

@deniseschug-lattwein9

5 ай бұрын

❤

Love the kinks my time the 60 onward was born 52 loved Ray his music clothes ect one of the best for me

The Kinks and Ray Davies solo work is always well worth listening (and thinking) to. He is a great writer.

Wonderful songwriter and lyrics.x

As a songwriter, Ray is second to none. 💜

@samil5601

3 жыл бұрын

This with bells on! Totally unique among all the greats.

@meep2576

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@edwardmulholland7912

7 ай бұрын

What about Scott Walker’s ‘67 to ‘70 period? Scott was arguably more of an outsider because he was an immigrant. They both looked at their subject matter with empathy - both great.

I love everything about the Kinks and Ray Davies. Everything was so well written and drenched in meaning!

@bobazivkovic7072

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget the atmosphere within their lyrics and music.. especially their ballads more then anything

Dave was THE most fashionable of the group. Got to see Ray live in 2011 and it was one of the best shows of my life.

One of the worlds greatest lyricist and song writer.

So many wonderful songs and such an original, creative and talented man. A beautiful documentary which takes me way back to discovering the Kinks in my early teens and absorbing the lyrics and melodies then. Fifty years on and the music still speak to my heart.

Ray's a great artist with a sure feel for the right harmony between lyrics and music.

Met him at a book signing in the 90s and asked him how long it took to write "Sunny Afternoon" - "About 20 minutes, that one". Amazing!

So many fabulous songs!! The Kinks are unique and their music is just as well. Long live Ray and Dave !!

@neilfranklin5644

3 жыл бұрын

I love days it has the brilliance of let it be a kind of reflective spirituality.

@polo7155

3 жыл бұрын

@@neilfranklin5644 Absolutely!

@alabhaois

7 ай бұрын

No one can pigeonhole Sir Raymond Davies. His songs are remarkable in their diversity!! 👍👍👍

Genius songwriter 🎵 Too many songs for me to pick a favourite... they are all so diverse

Brilliant. Thanks. And Ray looks very pretty, what he might call 'a nice bit of old'.

Chilly chilly is evening time........thanks for keeping us warm, Raymond Douglas

I'm American and I don't hate y'all! DANG the Kinks had some great songs!

Ray Davies is what the Nobel Prize is made of☺️

What a beautiful little docu... Love Ray and his great tunes. That intense search to respond to the world around him on his own terms speaks to me. Many of his songs are a Remembrance of Things Past, that kind of writing is so intimate, soul baring and fixes things in time, to be revisited over and over. Lyrical story telling, inviting the listener to participate in the longing for the lost moments. Only someone who has a complex inner life with incredible depth could write like that.

@andrekyle5954

3 жыл бұрын

instablaster...

@tonygallo1104

9 ай бұрын

Fabulous

@richardwarren449

2 ай бұрын

I love to revisit special moments in the past, as Ray does so very well. I listened to the Kinks in their heyday, and hearing these songs again really warms my heart. There’s also so much of his music that I missed back then . I’ve got some catching up to do.

Great video!!!!! New subscriber 💕💕💕💕 The Kinks are my favourite band 😎

What made the Kinks, for me, such a great band was their coice of instrumentation and guitar sounds. So much variety. So much innovation. A really great ear for something out of the ordinary.

Could you fucking IMAGINE hearing You Really Got Me for the first time ,say,on your way to work in 1964????? It would have blown fuckin MINDS man,SO fuckin HEAVY,no one touches Ray&The Kinks.

@jameshayden3952

Ай бұрын

I remember my transistor radio, laying by a public pool in summer. Suddenly that sound came through like no other. My head came up and I stared at that little speaker like WTF?!... thought they were one hit wonder till Lola. Researched and found a British wonder.

Incredible story teller!

Seen Ray do final show of tour at paramount L.I. Newyork.Very fan friendly sounded great. DID a lot of oldies..we heard it was being recorded. True treat

Excellent documentary. Definitely my favorite lyricist. Moreover I think he’s under rated

How wonderful to find this! So much information from one of my favorite songwriters ever! And nice to hear some of his solo stuff. Any Kink fan needs to check out Ray and Dave’s solo music! Closest we’ll ever get to a reunion!

So glad I watched this - Thankyou for the day... What great artist!

"See My Friends" is my favorite Ray song. The drone is hypnotizing.

Every song a touch of class and aa touch of humor.

What a nice surprise to see my two heroes Ray & Mick Jagger. Support the same Football team as me!

Great stuff from the master story teller. Thanks uploader.

He's still the single most underrated songwriter... Not so much in Britain but certainly in America. Dave and him invented punk rock. Some may argue The Who, but they were too Mod in 64'... too clean and tidy.

great interview i allway loved them my era great music

I have read XRAY by Ray Davies.It's on my bookshelf.I don't expect to meet anyone who reads the same books as me or even listen to the same music.

@bobazivkovic7072

3 ай бұрын

Ray wrote a book? I'll get one right now!

This is almost a biography of kinks 64 to 68 Brilliant Ray.

wonderful Thank you for uploading this !!!

Dr Raptus thanks so much for this, it's both lovely and fascinating.

was nice meeting Ray 2007

I just want to marry him. I want to caress his face and listen to him forever.

Desde hace55 años y sigo su musica

this is awesome! thank you!

What a talent

Thank you for posting this! ☮

great band,my fav number 2 after the stones

@patricktruchon9153

3 жыл бұрын

Disagree. Kinks/Beatles then-Stones and others.

Fascinating

Just watch BBC doc on making of The Village Green Preservation Society. Ray Davis as really aged since this doc in 2003. Time has no friends.

Very nice documentary!

I like the Kinks music very much

Loved these since I got apeman as a primary school kid,

@tashmina4412

9 ай бұрын

Meeee tooo!

bowie understands

@hollisbrown645

4 жыл бұрын

He seems to understand other musos, nice bloke as is Ray 😎✌️

❤❤❤

Almost all of the Kinks videos neglect to include "Percy" and Village Green Society 1 and 2. In my estimation they should have been included. Different, but with a solid message.

Genius

My three favorite English bands? The Kinks, Dire Straits and everyone else.

seems like a pretty cool cat

I love the song at 35:50. He's never released it though.

Bowie callin it a fuzz box when Dave just used a razor to slash his amplifier - Hendrix came later (Dave also made the flying V look cool way before Jimi did. And I will say I am a way bigger Hendrix fan than I am Dave Davies... but I have to say, Dave got there first Jimi!!!

Nice documentary. Thanks for posting. Ray seems more relaxed and open than in some other documentaries I have seen. (To stop me wondering, what language are the subtitles in? I'm guessing Danish.)

@Twothink

3 жыл бұрын

Swedish.

@adolforodolfo6929

3 жыл бұрын

@@Twothink Thanks for putting me straight. I'm very interested in languages and can speak/read a few besides my native English - but not including any of the Scandinavian ones, as you can tell 😊

Thanks for uploading this, I'm a life long fan. Have you read his autobiography X IRay? I'ts a great read, I strongly recommend to all fans of Ray and the Kinks!

@shootemupshootemdown

3 жыл бұрын

nah i don't do autobiographies it's like what they say, never meet your heroes they're bound to disappoint, which they do most if not all the time

@moondancer9066

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have heroes, therefore I'm never disappointed.

@papercup2517

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation Neil. It sounds interesting; here's a bit of blurb about it: "This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography ingeniously styled as a biography, is written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called "the Corporation" to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks and one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. The Kinks front man reveals his life and times to the young writer, often seemingly passing his stories directly into the writer's consciousness. Carnaby Street, "Top of the Pops," the Cavern Club, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and other fixtures of the times fade in and out of this compelling narrative. Part autobiography, part social history, part psychological thriller, this elusive and daring book exposes rock stardom as the heaven, hell, and purgatory it is." Not quite your average rock memoir, by the sound of it..

@lucyfoster4082

8 ай бұрын

And now Americana, which is to my mind even better.

genius

Check out Ray at 9:05 " Stand Uo Comic" 2003 Konk Studio. Was thus ever released? I dont believe I own this. May be titled " Thats That"

So AfterThe Fall was written before the shooting? I had assumed it referred to the shooting.

No mention of the fuckin Lola vs. Powerman album. C'mon - Come Dancing?

@johnd8776

2 жыл бұрын

I know- I was watching this anticipating hearing about Arthur (my favorite Kinks album) as well as Lola vs. Powerman (my second favorite)but all we got was a few moments Victoria-what gives?

Is Bob Geldoff Lola ? He said we would all be shocked if we knew who Lola was 😂

I have all the Kinks albums and Leonard Cohen's but no Stones or Beatles?

svensk text nice:)

WHAT IS THE SOURCE WHERE HE SINGS ALONE ALMOST-CH 2 IN CORNER?

friendly frankie is great

dlaczego nie tłumaczeń,przecież nie wszyscy znaja angielski biegle w mowie

Is he in the class of Max Martin ?

We

why go on?????

I had no idea that the BBC banned the promo film for Dead End Street.They are even bigger wankers than I thought.

Ray mentions the Marxist at 11:11

The Kinks were invited to perform on Live Aid, but refused!

@inger132

3 жыл бұрын

Dave had appendicitis and couldn’t make it for Live Aid

@alfching2499

3 жыл бұрын

Why would they want to Patronise a Joke like Geldof,No way would I have accepted that either.

@mollyhall2954

3 жыл бұрын

not true

Maureen Michalanney, sorry you are such a bitter twisted person. Please get some help. Wow, it’s been 5 years now. Hope you are OK now.