Published Articles
- Nov. 14, 1964, Pop Weekly, "Can the Kinks Hit Jackpot?"
- Nov. 28, 1964, Pop Weekly, "Kinks - A kinky, gimmicky name - and fame? Or just another 2-hit wonder group here today and gone tomorrow?"
- Jan. & Feb. 1965, The Press (Christchurch, NZ), articles before and after the Kinks' Feb. 4 show.
- Nov. 11, 1965, Rave Magazine, "Kinks Everywhere"
- Dec. 1964, Rave Magazine, "Iron Man of the Kinks"
- 1964?, source unknown, "'Kinks' Keep Popping Up In Life of British Quartet"
- Mar. 1964, Crawdaddy Magazine, "Face to Face - The Kinks"
- Aug. 1967, Disc and Music Echo Magazine, "Ray Davies reviews the Beatles' Revolver album"
- Apr. 10, 1969, The Village Voice, "Kinks Kountry"
- Jun. 14, 1969, Rolling Stone, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society"
- Nov. 1, 1969, Rolling Stone, "Arthur"
- Nov. 10, 1969, Rolling Stone, "The Kinks' Ray Davies Talks"
- Dec. 18, 1969, Rolling Stone, "Who Let the Kinks In?"
- Dec. 27, 1969, Rolling Stone, "Kinks 'Enormously Gratified' in US"
- 1969, Show Guide Magazine, "The British Scourge"
- 1969, Teenbeat Annual, "Achievements of The Kinks Not Fully Recognised"
- Apr. 8, 1971, The Village Voice, "Coming Out At Philharmonic Hall"
- Apr. 1, 1971, The New York Times, "The Kinks Draw An Unruly Crowd"
- Aug. 27, 1972, Sunday News, "Ray Davies: Man With a Message"
- 1972, source unknown, "'Kinks Kronikles' Review"
- Nov. 12, 1972, The New York Times, "Kinks' Contrast"
- 1973, Melody Maker, "Kinks mania (would you believe?) in Central Park"
- 1972, by Lillian Roxon, "Glamour, Chaos and The Kinks"
- 1972, by Lillian Roxon, "A Kinky Sound"
- Feb. 1972, Circus Magazine, "Ray Davies Unravels the Muswell Puzzle"
- Jan. 1973, Andy Warhol's Interview, "The Definitive Ray Davies Interview"
- Oct. 13, 1973, New Musical Express, "Doggie Tricks and Bizness Licks"
- 1973, NY Daily News, "Raymond Douglas Davies: 'Some People Like To Live With Dreams'"
- 1973?, by Dale Anderson, Three Preservation-era Articles
- Jul. 21, 1973, Melody Maker, "Thank you for the days, Ray"
- 1974?, by Andy McKaie, "The Kinks, Preservation Act 2"
- 1974, Circus Magazine, Preservation Act II Interview
- May 19. 1975, The Village Voice, "Kinks - 'Soap Opera': Rock Theater That Works"
- 1975, Crawdaddy, "Self-Preservation: A multi-media production starringRaymond Douglas Davies as himself"
- Dec. 1975, by John Pareles, "The Kinks - Orpheum Theater, Boston Mass."
- May 8, 1977, Washington Post, "The Pressures of the Road - Does the Band That Fights Together Stay Together?"
- Jun. 4, 1978, The New York Times, "The Kinks, a Rock Band, at Palladium With Two Brand-New Members"
- Aug. 1980, Trouser Press, "This Man He Laughs Tonight - Dave Davies Spearheads Kinks Attack!"
- Sep. 30, 1981, The New York Times, "Thinking Kinks, At Long Last, Make It to the Garden"
- 1981, Arista biography for the Kinks
- 1982, Rolling Stone, "The Kinks Resurgence Continues"
- Jun. 1982, Circus Magazine, "Caught In The Act"
- Dec. 17, 1982, Time Out, "A Kink In Time"
- Oct. 1, 1985, The Village Voice, "The Great Lost Kinks Movie"
- Aug. 30, 1988, The San Diego Union, by Welton Jones, "'80 Days' A World Away From True Emotion"
- May 1988, RockBill, "The Kinks Kronikled"
- Sep. 13, 1989, New York Daily News, "Ray Davies gets some Kinks out"
- Sep. 1989, Q Magazine, "Tales of Drunkenness and Cruelty"
- Oct. 18, 1989, The New York Times, "After 25 Years, Kinks Retain Their Scale and Informality"
- Mar. 1990, Musician Magazine, "Give Me Life On the Road"
- Apr. 20, 1990, The Sun, "My Terror On The Night I Cheated Death" by Rick Sky
- 1990, Telegraph Magazine, "First Person"
- Nov. 23, 1991, Boston Globe, "Kinks bring down the house at the Garden"
- Feb. 1992, Musician Magazine, "Acoustic Kinks"
- Jul. 27, 1993, Boston Globe, "A Great Show, As Usual, From the Kinks"
- 1993, The Island Ear, "The Kinks At the Academy: Frustration, Fulfillment All Their Greatest Plates"
- May 13, 1994, Rolling Stone, "The Brothers Grim: Ray and Dave Davies ponder their ongoing sibling rivalry on 'Phobia'"
- Aug. 27, 1994, The Independent, "The Kitchen Sink Kink"
- Jan. 1, 1995, New York Times, "Session Man" by Ray Davies
- Jul. 13, 1995, L.A. Village View, "The Kinks, House Of Blues" by Ray Greene
- Aug. 7, 1995, The New York Times, "Recluse to Showman, With a Look Backward"
- Aug. 21, 1995, Daily Telegraph, "Unplugged and Unmissable"
- Feb. 5, 1996, The Island Ear, "Ray Davies: A Well Respected 20th Century Man"
- Feb. 21-28, 1996, TimeOut New York, "The Single Life: Guest reviewer Ray Davies surveys a sampling of new singles"
- Mar. 1, 1996, Goldmine Magazine, "He's Not Like Everybody Else: God Save Ray Davies"
- Apr. 1996, Record Review Magazine, "Dave Davies: After Brother Ray's 'X-Ray', The Kinks' Guitarist Strikes Back With The Uncompromising 'Kink'"
- Apr. 12, 1996, Chicago Tribune, "The Kinks, Cain and Abel and the world according to Ray"
- 1996, Rhythms Rock Features - A Well Respected Man: Ray Davies grows old gracefully!
- May 24, 1996, Boston Globe, "The words behind the music: Ray Davies debuts VH1's `Storytellers' series"
- Summer, 1996, Flatiron Magazine, "Kink Think"
- 1996, Boston Globe, "I'm a 20th century man . . . but I don't wanna be here."
- Oct. 24, 1996, Philadelphia Enquirer, "Kink's Ray Davies Is Seizing The Moment"
- Oct. 30, 1996, Seattle Times, Storyteller review
- Nov. 10, 1996, Music Connection, "A Well Respected Man"
- Nov. 13, 1996, The New York Times, "A Rock Icon Still Hits The Sweet High Notes"
- 1996, Pulse Magazine, "A Few Brilliant Returns"
- Jan. 1997, Guitar World Magazine, "A Kink's Kronikle"
- Apr. 1997, L.A. Times, "Loyal Pains: The Davies Boys Are Still at It"
- May 1997, Musician Magazine, "Andy Partridge of XTC on 'Autumn Almanac'"
- May 1997, Long Island Ear, "Dave Davies: From Muswell Hill to Beverly Hills"
- Jul. 1997, Musician Magazine, "The Kinks - You Really Got Me"
- 1997, San Diego North County Times, "30 Years In The Making, Dave Davies Gets the Kinks Out For First Tour"
- May 1997, Stereophile, "Building A Library - The Kinks"
- Dec. 3, 1997, The New York Times, "Like His Brother, but Much Grittier"
- 1997, United Press International, "Dave Davies"
- Jul. 31, 1998, The Courier-Mail, Queensland, Australia, "A Night at the Opera"
- Mar. 18, 2001, Sunday Times, "Yes, he's a dedicated saboteur of fashion"
- Oct. 18, 2001, The Hollywood Reporter, "Ray Davies"
- Apr. 14, 2002, Mail On Sunday, "Dedicated Followers Of Kinks' London"
- April 28, 2002, The Hartford Courant, "Davies Brings Kinks Classics To Foxwoods", by Roger Catlin
- April 28, 2002, Sunday Express, "Renegade Ray", by Chris Goodman
- May/June 2002, Heaven, "Britpop op z'n best", by Rob Kopp
- October 7, 2002, VG, "The Kinks: The Ultimate Collection", by Tor Milde
- October 7, 2002, Wolverhampton Express And Star, "Ray Davies, Symphony Hall, Birmingham", by Peter Carroll
- November 2002, Compostelan magazine (Spain), an article on Cuco Ríos' web site dedicated to Ray Davies
- June 20, 2004, Sunday Express, (an article on Ray Davies), by Chris Goodman
- July 25, 2004, Sunday Express, "Balmy brilliance from the Bard of Muswell Hill", by Paul Sexton
- August 1, 2004, Sunday Express, "Kinks star blow", by Chris Goodman
- September 28, 2004, Metro, Ray Davies' Bloomsbury Theatre preview, by Ben Sloan
- September, 2004, Unknown UK newspaper, "Kinks just capital!" -- Waterloo Sunset voted greatest song about London
- September 30, 2004, Financial Times, "Ray Davies, Bloomsbury Theatre, London"
- October 1, 2004, The Guardian, "Ray Davies, Bloomsbury Theatre, London"
- October 1, 2004, The Independent, "Ray Davies, Bloomsbury Theatre, London"
- October 16, 2004, Helsingin Sanomat, "Rokkaava puutarhuri tekee paluuta", by Jarkko Jokelainen
- October 18, 2004, Helsingin Sanomat, "Kurkistus The Kinksin aarrearkkuun", by Jarkko Jokelainen
- October 18, 2004, Keskisuomalainen, "Ray Davies vakuutti moni-ilmeisyydellään", by Hannu Puttonen
- October 18, 2004, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, "Kuusikymppinen Kinks-pomo voimissaan", by Jarno Hynninen
- December 2004, Epsom and Sutton Guardian, "The Kast masters of yesteryear", by Gareth Foreman
- February 2005, Q, "Cash For Questions - Ray Davies"
- May 2005, Juke Box Magazine (France),
"Kinks On Route '65"
- June 12, 2005, Sunday Express, "Feuding Kinks are all Wight says Ray", by Chris Goodman
- September 21, 2005, Time Out magazine, "Ask a silly question... Ray Davies", by Chris Salmon
- September 26, 2005, Newcastle Journal, "Back in the rhythm", by Duncan Higgitt
- October 3, 2005, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, "Ray irons out the Kinks", by Jamie Diffley
- October 6, 2005, Shields Gazette, "Ray Davies, Tyne Theatre, Newcastle", by Mel Kirtley
- October 7, 2005, Bristol Evening Post, "Ray Davies, Colston Hall, Bristol", by Steve Harnell
- October 15, 2005, Plymouth Evening Herald, "Pop Legend Still On Song After 40 Years", by Bill Richards
- October 28, 2005, USA Today, "Solo Ray Davies gets the kinks out", by Ken Barnes
- November 23, 2005, Binghamton, NY Press & Sun-Bulletin, "CD Review - Ray Davies, Thanksgiving Day", by Chris Kocher
- December 4, 2005, Sunday Express, "Kinks in conflict as Dave has pop at Ray", by Chris Goodman
- February 19, 2006, Binghamton, NY Press & Sun-Bulletin, "Still full of surprises", by Chris Kocher
- March 13, 2006, Daily Express, "The Kinks are top of the ads", by Dan Parkinson
- July 1, 2006, The Courier & Advertiser, "Ray Davies to thank for London images in song", by Michael Baird
- August 2006, Northside San Francisco, "There's life after breakfast with Ray Davies of The Kinks", by Bruce Bellingham
- October 10, 2006, Daily Mail, "Sixties legend Dave Davies on the three strokes that nearly killed him...", by Rachel Kaufman
- June 1, 2007, Misty Lane, "Mapleoak", by Nick Warburton
- July 2007, Hornsey Magazine, "Dedicated followers of Kinkdom", by Olga Ruocco
- July 5, 2007, Ham & High Broadway, "All day and half the night is just not on", by Marijke Peters
- January 2008, Record Collector, "The Ray Davies Preservation Society", by Elliot Stephen Cohen
- March 2, 2008, Binghamton, NY Press & Sun-Bulletin, "Kinks' songwriter reflects on America... and himself", by Chris Kocher
- September 25, 2008, London Lite, "A Kink-y night out", by Fiona Mountford
- September 26, 2008, Daily Mail, "Cheers Ray, you nearly got me going", by Patrick Marmion
- September 26, 2008, The Times, "Kink in the staging of a story lost for words", by Sam Marlowe
- September 26, 2008, The Guardian, "Come Dancing" review, by Lyn Gardner
- September 29, 2008, The Telegraph, "Kinks spin-off deserves a big future", by Charles Spencer
- October 2, 2008, Muswell Hill Journal, "The birth of the teenager", by Olga Ruocco
- October 5, 2008, Mail On Sunday, "Come Dancing" review, by Georgina Brown
- April 9, 2009, Muswell Hill Journal, "Kinks singer Ray to rock Kenwood"
- July 1, 2010, Toronto Globe and Mail, "I Remember / Pete Quaife" by Stan Endersby
- October 28, 2010, Basler Zeitung, "Britpop gestern und heute - Ray Davies und Razorlight an der AVO Session Basel" by Marc Krebs
- December 2010, Popular Music and Society, "Peter Quaife, 1943-2010", an obituary by Thomas M. Kitts
- August 27, 2023, Trevor Datson on attending Ray's Arvon songwriting course ca. 2009
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