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 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.

Furthermore, Ray Davies as a solo artist refers to the river Thames in his " London Song ".

* " London ", a song by Ray Davies on the album The Storyteller

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

Raymond Douglas " Ray " Davies, CBE ( ; born 21 June 1944 ) is an English rock musician.

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

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

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 ".

Yet another perennial Ray Davies theme is the championing of individualistic personalities and lifestyles (" I'm Not Like Everybody Else ", 1966 ; " Johnny Thunder ", 1968 ; " Monica ", 1968 ; " Lola ", 1970 ; " Celluloid Heroes ", 1972 ; " Where Are They Now?

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.

Ray Davies performing in Toronto, 1977

* Ray Davies

* " London Song " by Ray Davies: " If you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day, You can see right down to Leicester Square ".

Hynde had a daughter with Ray Davies during January 1983.

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

They recorded the hits " A Must to Avoid " ( US No. 8 ), " Listen People " ( US No. 3 ), George Formby, Jr .' s " Leaning on a Lamp Post ," from Me and My Girl ( US No. 9 ), and the Ray Davies song " Dandy " ( US No. 5 ) in 1966, and " There's a Kind of Hush " ( US No. 4 ) in 1967.

" 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.

Through Ray Butt, a BBC producer and director whom Sullivan had met and become friends with when they were working on Citizen Smith, a draft script was shown to the Corporation's Head of Comedy, John Howard Davies.

* Ray Davies repeats the line "... and don't forget the Kray twins " in his song " London ", later adding, " very dangerous people those Kray twins ".

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.

The show started with a broadcast of Ray Davies, during his " Storyteller " tour, and took its name from this first show.

Upperstall. com described her work in the film as " an outstanding psychologically penetrating performance very different from those seen normally till then in mainstream Hindi cinema ", and famous independent filmmaker Satyajit Ray commented, " In Ankur she may not have fitted immediately into her rustic surroundings, but her poise and personality are never in doubt.

In 2004, Ray Shulman commented '( Octopus ) was probably our best album, with the exception, perhaps of Acquiring the Taste.

" Ray Shulman has commented " There was definitely the decision that the last tour would be the last tour.

In 2003 he commented " My own personal opinion is that the band broke up because Derek really wanted a hit album, and I think Ray did too, and they were fed up.

Both Allmusic and Rolling Stone commented that Ray Wilson was a fitting new vocalist for Genesis, but that the album is wholly lacking in good material.

It often printed letters from established writers, and from fans who would go on to become well known professionally: Damon Knight's letters are described by sf historian Mike Ashley as " legendary "; and Robert Silverberg commented in a letter in the Summer 1950 issue that Ray Bradbury " certainly gets some original ideas, if not good ones ".

Just months before Ray Kroc died, he commented ( Love, 1995 ): “ Harry alone put in the policy that salvaged this company and made it a big-leaguer.

In 2004, Ray Shulman commented "( Octopus ) was probably our best album, with the exception, perhaps of Acquiring the Taste.

Hearns stumbled several times as he attempted to move around the ring and change direction prompting HBO commentator Sugar Ray Leonard to note "... I don't like the way Tommy's moving ... a little rubbery-legged ..." In the studio broadcast of the fight, Hearns commented "... my legs were gone, man ... even before I came out to fight, my legs felt weak.

Then Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wycombe, Ray Whitney, criticised the publication of the names in the House of Commons on 21 December 1988 in a debate on a proposed Official Secrets Bill, when he commented that:

Ray Peavy, head of the Los Angeles County homicide division, commented that, in addition to teaching criminals how to conceal evidence, crime shows may even " encourage them when they see how simple it is to get away with on television.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

In a raucous take-off on radio commercials, Singer Ray Stevens hawks a cure-all for neuritis, neuralgia, head-cold distress, beriberi, overweight, fungus, mungus and water on the knee.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

Bypassing station seven to save time, Young and Duke arrived at station eight on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray Crater for about an hour.

Ray Ivany began his position as President and Vice-Chancellor on 1 April 2009.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

Many of his assistant coaches went on to be head coaches, including George Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Mike Shanahan, Ray Rhodes, and Dennis Green.

Elaborations on the Oriole way include pitching coach and manager Ray Miller's maxim " Work fast, change speeds, and throw strikes " and manager Earl Weaver's maxim " Pitching, defense and three-run homers.

* " Burroughs B 5000 Conference, OH 98 ", Oral history on 6 September 1985, Marina del Ray, California.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known on the air as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

The duo, usually led by Ray, are known for rants on the evils of the internal combustion engine, people who talk on cell phones while driving, Peugeots, women named Donna who always seem to drive Camaros, lawyers, the clever use of the English language, and practically anything else, including themselves.

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.