About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf.

Many historicists such as H. B. Nicholson ( 2001 ( 1957 )) and Nigel Davies ( 1977 ) were fully aware that the Aztec chronicles were a mixture of mythical and historical accounts, this led them to try to separate the two by applying a comparative approach to the varying Aztec narratives.

The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood.

Initial training on the LVTs was done at the FMC factory under the auspices of the first Amphibian Tractor School, led by Major William W. Davies.

This led to the resignation of the BBC's Chairman Gavyn Davies and Director-General ( equivalent to Chief Executive ), Greg Dyke ; Andrew Gilligan also resigned.

Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues ( 1996 ), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

Part of the reason why the company was targeted was that the management buy-in group that had taken over Channel Television earlier in the same year was led by two former HTV executives-Huw Davies ( chief executive ) and David Jenkins ( finance director ).

The team was led by Bob Davies, Al Cervi, George Glamack, and Otto Graham, a future NFL Hall of Famer, who, in his only season in professional basketball, won a league championship before moving on to football and leading the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games, winning seven.

In 2002, a strategic reorganization started, led by the former CEO Peter Davies.

In June 2002 the CIX service was outsourced by Telenor to Parkglobe, a company specially set up for the purpose by several long-term staffers and directors led by Graham Davies.

The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno.

After local government re-organisation in 1974 he continued as leader of the newly-constituted Rhymney Valley District Council and led a campaign for a Fair Rents Act against plans by the Conservative Government of Edward Heath to increase the amount of rent paid by Council house tenants, although in Labour circles it was well known that he wanted to surrender to the government, but was voted down by the local labour party management, led by Ray Davies.

In February 1971, in the wake of the emergency nationalisation of Rolls-Royce Limited, the then Conservative government under Edward Heath and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Davies, announced a policy that refused further state-support for " lame duck " industries, which led to a crisis of confidence amongst UCS creditors and resulted in severe cash flow problems for the company.

According to Theosophist Josephine Maria Davies Ransom, she became part of a progressive " Back to Blavatsky movement, led mainly by Mr. and Mrs. Foster Bailey ".

Davies therefore led the Liberal Party, which in the late 19th Century dominated British politics virtually without opposition, through its lowest period, when it was reduced to a minor party: the result of the electorate's polarisation between the Labour and the Conservatives.

At the urging of local people led by David Davies and supported by Joseph Jenkins, capital was subscribed for a station at Tregaron.

This confusion may have led to a mistake when the National Black Police Association invited Davies to speak at a conference in 2008 ; some sources suggest they this was a mistake and that they meant to invite his more prominent near-namesake, although the NBPA spokesman said that Davies had been invited because of his role on the Commons home affairs committee.

Franklin Davies, a Nigerian, led two other gunmen in an attempted armed robbery of the Spaghetti House, where managers of the chain had assembled to pay in the week's takings of approximately £ 13, 000.

The serial was very popular, and led to two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999, although these were not written by Abbott or Davies.

* " Flea Circus ", a jazz quartet led by trumpet player Jack Davies.

Initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, it reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

Pendle Borough Council has been governed since 2004 by the Liberal Democrats, led by Alan Davies ( Liberal Democrat ).

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In 1964 Dave Davies ( second from left ), lead guitarist of The Kinks, famously achieved a distorted sound on " You Really Got Me " by slashing the cones of his guitar amplifier with a razor blade.

* In the song 20th Century Man from the Kinks ' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to " your smart modern painters.

* Waterloo and Waterloo Underground are the setting for the Kinks ' song " Waterloo Sunset ", written by Ray Davies and recorded in 1967.

Since the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

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.

The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and Ray Davies has performed solo since then.

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

In 1990, Davies was inducted, with the Kinks, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, in 2005, into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

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 ".

The Kinks have been called " the most adamantly British of the Brit Invasion bands " on account of Ray Davies ' abiding fascination with England's imperial past and his tender, bittersweet evocations of " a vanishing, romanticized world of village greens, pubs and public schools ".

Davies ' mid-period work for the Kinks also showed signs of an emerging social conscience.

A definitive testament to Davies ' reputation as a songwriter of insight, empathy and wit can be heard on the Kinks ' landmark 1969 album Arthur ( or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ).

The overall theme of the record was partly inspired by the life of Ray and Dave Davies ' brother-in-law, Arthur Anning, who had married their older sister, Rose — herself the subject of an earlier Kinks song, " Rosie Won't You Please Come Home " ( 1966 )— and had emigrated to Australia after the war.

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.

Other transient residents have included the footballers Tommy Docherty and George Eastham and Dave Davies of the Kinks.

Special guests on the album include Steve Cropper of Booker T and the Mg's and Ray Davies of the Kinks.

Among those who have openly acknowledged his influence are George Harrison, Dave Davies ( of the Kinks ), Hank Marvin ( of the Shadows ), the Ventures, John Entwistle ( of the Who ), Bruce Springsteen, Adrian Belew, Bill Nelson ( of Be-Bop Deluxe ), and Mark Knopfler.

" Ray Davies of The Kinks wrote " Dandy " – a US Top Five hit for Herman's Hermits.

Other London-based bands included the Yardbirds ( who would number their ranks three key guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ), the Kinks ( with the pioneer songwriter Ray Davies and rock-guitarist Dave Davies ) and, Manfred Mann ( considered to have one of the most authentic sounding vocalists in the scene in Paul Jones ) and the Pretty Things, beside the more jazz-influenced acts like the Graham Bond Organisation, Georgie Fame and Zoot Money.

Towards the end of 1969, the group released its next album, Turtle Soup, a critically well-received LP produced by Ray Davies of the Kinks.

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.