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.

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.

Freak Out !, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's sardonic farce about rock music and America as a whole, and Face to Face by The Kinks, the first collection of Ray Davies's idiosyncratic character studies of ordinary people, are conceptually oriented albums.

Musicians included members of Peter Green's Splinter Group, The Kinks, Downliners Sect and former Yardbird Ray Majors on lead guitar.

At Arista, Davis signed Patti Smith, The Outlaws, Eric Carmen, Exposé, Ace of Base, Air Supply, Dionne Warwick, Ray Parker and Raydio, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys, and he brought to the label Carly Simon, The Grateful Dead, The Kinks and Lou Reed.

Davies would make occasional contributions on Kinks records as lead vocalist and songwriter, with classics such as " Party Line " ( the lyrics were written by Ray Davies and the song has been attributed to Ray on many editions of " Face to Face "), " Death of a Clown " and " Strangers ".

In July 1967, Davies released his first solo single, credited entirely under his name, ( although co-written by his brother and fellow Kinks member Ray Davies ) entitled " Death of a Clown ".

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

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic. com would later comment that the album " represented an artistic dead end for the Kinks, as Ray Davies continued to crank out a series of competent, but undistinguished hard rockers.

A few popular music artists have used elements of the Merry England story as recurring themes ; The Kinks and their leader Ray Davies crafted The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society as a homage to English country life and culture: it was described by Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as an album " lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions "; Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) also contains similar elements.

* The Kinks, an English rock band, Ray and Dave Davies

Ray Davies of The Kinks took an initial interest in the group, although tracks produced by Davies did not surface commercially until decades later.

A recording studio called KONK was established on Tottenham Lane in nearby Hornsey by Ray Davies, the Muswell Hill-born leader of The Kinks.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Then in the seventeenth century John Ray ( England, 1627 – 1705 ) wrote many important taxonomic works.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

Patrick Goss of MSN's Tech & Gadgets wrote that " When it comes to gizmos, Frink is the king ", and listed the Death Ray as one of the greatest gadgets featured in The Simpsons.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

In his first " rebuttal " chapter, Bob professes not to have understood anything Chris wrote ; he proceeds to use this and all subsequent chapters to talk about the summer he's having at his vacation cottage in Maine instead, employing the familiar Bob and Ray style of dry wit.

" Ray wrote, directed, and starred in the film, which was shot in and around the Baker area.

Also in the early years Hart-Davis secured Ray Bradbury for his firm, recognising the quality of a science fiction author who also wrote poetry.

Alongside performing as a double act, Monkhouse and Goodwin wrote for comedians such as Arthur Askey, Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray and Max Miller.

Pomus also wrote " Lonely Avenue ", which became a 1956 hit for Ray Charles.

The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: " You ask about my opinion on vivisection.

The pair wrote the MLK conspiracy book Code Name Zorro, which postulated that convicted assassin James Earl Ray did not act alone.

Laurents wrote a lengthy treatment for Ray Stark, who read it on a transcontinental flight and called the screenwriter the moment he arrived in Los Angeles to greenlight the project.

Apart from being the composer's fourth collaboration with Ray Harryhausen ( The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Three Worlds of Gulliver and Mysterious Island, made in 1958, 1960, and 1961 respectively ), Herrmann also wrote the music to Journey to the Center of the Earth.

So when the book appeared the book stated, ‘ Ray Johnson is a poet ,’ but I never said, ' this is a poem ,' I simply wrote what I wrote and it later became classified.

He wrote arrangements for Paul Whiteman, Louis Prima, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Hot Lips Page, Jack Teagarden, Ina Ray Hutton and Alvino Rey.

Satyajit Ray wrote thirty-five Feluda stories, most of which are extremely and nostalgicly popular among Bengali children as well as adults.

In Hollywood, he wrote arrangements for such artists as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Lou Rawls, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Slack and Mel Torme.

He was in the house band for The Merv Griffin Show and wrote arrangements for Ray Charles and others.

In June 2007, Shantanu Guha Ray wrote on Tehelka weekly that Amritanandamayi Math had an annual turnover of INR 400 crores.