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.

After Ray Wallace's death, his children came forward with a pair of wooden feet, which they said their father had used to fake the Bigfoot tracks in 1958.

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Green Ray ".

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Indigo Ray ".

However, Jonze, in an interview with Times Online, said that Ray Tintori was no longer a director for that project as expected.

" We figured we could win if our offense didn't put us into too many holes ", said 35-year old Colts lineman Billy Ray Smith, who was playing in his last NFL game, " Let me put it this way, they didn't put us into any holes we couldn't get out of "

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Violet Ray ".

Once Ray had heard Unwin talking he said simply: " I want him in the series.

People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be " on the Orange Ray ".

Movie critic Andrew O ' Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rosselini and Satyajit Ray, said, " It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Madonna and Björk are said to be responsible for electronica's thrust into mainstream culture, with their albums Ray of Light ( Madonna ), Post and Homogenic ( Björk ).

In a 1995 paper discussing some of the challenges, deficiencies and achievements of modern laboratory parapsychology Ray Hyman said,

" Ray Nutt, the sheriff of Henderson County, said in the same article that when the lake first opened, there was no zoning and " a lot of elderly people bought a mobile home and moved in ; it was nice.

Kings inherited the duty to ensure Maat remained in place and they with Ra are said to " live on Maat ", with Akhenaten ( r. 1372-1355 BCE ) in particular emphasising the concept to a degree that, John D. Ray asserts, the kings contemporaries viewed as intolerance and fanaticism.

Other Hall of Fame boxers such as Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Leonard said the same.

" I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes ," LaMotta later said.

Pinder's decision caused some open acrimony within the band ( notably from Edge ), Ray Thomas had said Pinder was initially agreeable to touring, and his opting out later on ( with a major comeback tour already planned ) was a severe and embarrassing blow to them.

Jim Morrison cites Kerouac as one of his biggest influences, and fellow Doors member Ray Manzarek has said " We wanted to be beatniks ".

According to the Dallas Times Herald, it took Vaughan an hour just to walk from the bar to the table across the room where his parents were sitting ; the article also said, " Stevie Ray found his father, a retired asbestos worker who hadn't taken a plane ride since the Korean War, and hugged him until they both cried.

Ray idolizes famed guitarist Django Reinhardt, and is said to have fainted in his presence and to have fled a nightclub performance with severe stage fright upon hearing a false rumor that Reinhardt was in the audience.

Sugar Ray Leonard ( working as one of the commentators of the fight ) said Kim came right back very strong.

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.

Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas.