At Ray Davies ' invitation Avory agreed to manage Konk Studios, where he also served as a producer and occasional contributor on later Kinks albums.

Davies was ordered to pay the costs of the claimant, with an interim payment of £ 60000, and the final amount to be agreed.

It is widely agreed by historians and folklorists, such as Willem de Blécourt, Robin Briggs and Owen Davies, that the term " cunning folk " could be applied to all of these figures as well to reflect a pan-European tradition.

The directors of the old board agreed to resign and Mr. Davies who had been Vice Chairman of the old board, became Chairman of the new board.

She agreed that care of the three children should pass to their paternal grandparents, Francis and Lydia Davies, who ran the nearby Church House Inn at 14, Portland Street.

Davies ' biographers have agreed that the significance of the accident should not be underestimated, even though Davies himself played down the story.

In the autumn of 1986, after watching a preview of Austen's Northanger Abbey, Sue Birtwistle and Andrew Davies agreed to adapt Pride and Prejudice, one of their favourite books, for television.

In a June 2009 independent poll conducted by Drapers Online, 100 % of the voters agreed that the new venture would be another success story for Davies.

In the run-up to the brand's launch Davies agreed an exclusive deal with women's fashion magazine Grazia ..

Producer Russell T Davies said, " We are delighted that one of Britain's greatest talents has agreed to join us for the fourth series.

In March 1902, at a meeting in the New Islington Hall, Stafford announced to Newton Heath supporters that he, Davies and three other local businessmen had agreed to invest £ 200 each in the club in order to save it after a winding-up order had been issued two months earlier.

Many agreed to appear out of friendship with Davies, Hearst, and director Vidor, but the positive publicity value of cooperating with Hearst and MGM also played a factor.

As a result Toosey agreed several years later to be interviewed by Professor Peter Davies, providing 48 hours of taped interviews on the understanding that they were not to be published until after Toosey's death.

The band consists of vocalist Brian ' Yap ' Barry from Templemore, Co. Tipperary, guitarist Massimo Fiocco from Limerick City, drummer Martin Davies and bass guitarist Glen Diani.

Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962 – 1963, when the Kinks developed into a professional performing band.

After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

Davies has had a tempestuous relationship with younger brother Dave ( the band's lead guitarist ) that dominated the Kinks ' career as a band.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

With the eerie, droning " See My Friends "— inspired by the untimely death of the Davies brothers ' older sister Rene in June 1957 — the band began to show signs of expanding their musical palette even further.

As the band began to experiment with theatrical sound effects and baroque musical arrangements ( Nicky Hopkins played harpsichord on several tracks ), Davies ' songwriting fully acquired its distinctive elements of narrative, observation and wry social commentary.

During this time, the band changed the spelling of their name from ' Pitch Shifter ' to ' Pitchshifter ', and also recruited former The Prodigy live guitarist Jim Davies, with the band returning to their five-piece form.

It is the hometown of the multi-platinum selling alternative rock / post-grunge band Collective Soul and home to one of the youngest starting pitchers ever to play for the Atlanta Braves, Kyle Davies, who also graduated from Stockbridge High School.

Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday ( which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist ).

The band, initially a studio-only duo of Woloschuk and Long, released the singles " Hanus Of Uranus / Sub-Rosa Subway " and " Dr. Marvello / For You Girl " on GRT Records in 1973, before being taken under the wing of Daffodil Records and its president Frank Davies.

By 1975 Davies, along with producer Terry Brown, managed to land the band a deal with Capitol Records in the United States.

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

The original duo were joined by Harvey Williams ( of Another Sunny Day ) on guitar and in 1990 the band expanded to include Annemari Davies on vocals, keyboards and guitar and Mark Dobson on drums ; the first fruits of this new line-up being the Skywriting mini-LP.

Among these were guitarist and blues harpist Cyril Davies, who ran the London Skiffle Club at the Roundhouse public house in London ’ s Soho and guitarist Alexis Korner, both of whom worked for jazz band leader Chris Barber, playing in the R & B segment he introduced to his show.

Davies and Korner, having already split with Barber, now plugged in and began to play high powered electric blues that became the model for the sub-genre, forming the band Blues Incorporated.

Inspired by the revered 1968 concept album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, this was Davies ’ s only production work for another band.

* Iva Davies, frontman of band Icehouse

The band secured commercial success in 1989, when their song " Pacific State " was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies.

David Russell Gordon " Dave " Davies ( born 3 February 1947, Fortis Green, London ) is an English rock musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks.

Dave Davies had a turbulent relationship with Avory, one of the reasons behind the latter's departure from the band in the mid 1980s, although the two had been roommates together in the mid 1960s.

Ray and Dave Davies remained the only two steady members of the band ( with the exception of Avory until his departure ) throughout their run together.

Although credited to Davies, it was technically a Kinks recording, as his backing band was The Kinks.

Mick Avory left the band after The Kinks ' last album for Arista, Word of Mouth, mainly due to the growing animosity between him and Dave Davies.

Yet there were a few recruits, such as Clement Davies, who had deserted to the National Liberals in 1931 but now returned to the party during the World War II and who would lead it after the war.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

When the Kinks changed record labels from RCA to Arista in 1976, Davies abandoned his then-recent propensity for ambitious, theatrical concept albums and rock operas — the RCA era ( 1971 – 75 ) had produced Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace — and returned to writing more basic, straightforward songs.

During this time, Jim Davies returned to The Prodigy, while Dan went to work on Drawbacks, with his brother Tim Rayner, who later joined Pitchshifter as well.

Dressler returned to MGM in 1928's The Patsy in a winning portrayal playing the fluttery mother to star Marion Davies and Jane Winton.

After his long career Ron Davies returned to England to live in his Hertfordshire home with his wife, Marjorie, and be near his two daughters and two grandsons.

Loftus was returned, along with Sir Francis Rushe, as member for the King's County in the parliament of 1613, more apparently by the act of the sheriff than by the choice of the freeholders, and he was one of the Protestant majority who made Sir John Davies speaker.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

Davies was born to Welsh parents, who returned to their native Nant-y-Moel when the Second World War began in 1939.

In England, Davies spent much time in preparing the way for the Irish parliament of 1613, to which he was returned for County Fermanagh.

Davies returned Creek at Easter 2010 for a one-off episode, " The Judas Tree ".

He has returned regularly to WNO as a guest conductor, notably for the world première of Peter Maxwell Davies ’ s The Doctor of Myddfai, and for Peter Stein ’ s 1988 production of Falstaff, which he also conducted in New York, Milan, Paris and Tokyo.

Having received 16, 961 votes in the first round, 189 votes behind the independent Michael Maye, Davies was returned in the second count on transfers of second preference votes, with 25, 344 votes to 24, 990.

In September 2008 Robinson chaired the special Brain of Brains and Top Brain editions of the quiz and returned to host the series in 2008 ; Davies then replaced him for the 2009 shows .< ref > Paul Donovan

Davies returned to British TV screens weekly from July 2008 as a joint host presenter along with Jim Rosenthal on Five's latest revival of the long running celebrity sports competition Superstars.

He returned to QPR when Colin Calderwood was sacked and replaced by Billy Davies, his former manager at Derby County.

* Tuesday 2 October: British Conservative MP Quentin Davies, then Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, accompanied parents and children as they returned home through the protest.

Davies returned to his native Newcastle, where his previous club, Western Suburbs — not to be confused with the Sydney club of the same name — sought to use him in the local league.

Young swimmer David Davies, coming third in the 1500 m Freestyle, set a European record in the process and won Britain's second swimming medal of the games — a notable improvement over the 2000 Sydney games from which the swimmers had returned empty-handed.

Following rugby union's decision to go professional, the flow of talent going north from the valleys dried up and Jonathan Davies returned to rugby union.

Although Davies eagerly sent the manuscript for Young Emma to Jonathan Cape in August 1924, he later changed his mind and asked for the manuscript to be returned and the copies destroyed.

Davies returned to his native Newport in 1930, where a luncheon was held in his honour at the Westgate Hotel.

He was initially Derby's first choice right back, but when Tyrone Mears returned from injury and Paul Jewell replaced Billy Davies as Derby manager, he found his chances in the first team restricted.

In 1863 Davies returned to work as an agent for a sugarcane plantation, but left again when his contract expired in 1866.