{"id":29771,"date":"2024-06-21T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-21-1944-the-kinks-ray-davies-is-born\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:03:33","slug":"on-this-day-june-21-1944-the-kinks-ray-davies-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-21-1944-the-kinks-ray-davies-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 21, 1944: The Kinks\u2019 Ray Davies is born"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, June 21, 1944\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Raymond Douglas Davies<\/strong>, better known as Ray Davies, was born in Fortis Green, London. He and his brother\u00a0Dave Davies,\u00a0<\/strong>formed\u00a0The Kinks\u00a0<\/strong>in 1963, releasing their self-titled debut in 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n

The band went on to release 24 albums, including 1966\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Face to Face<\/span><\/em>, 1970\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Lola Versus Powerman\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and more, with hit songs like 1964\u2019s \u201cYou Really Got Me,\u201d which reached the Top 10 in the U.S, and 1970\u2019s \u201cLola.\u201d Their biggest chart hits included 1965\u2019s “Tired of Waiting for You\u201d and 1983\u2019s “Come Dancing,\u201d which both peaked at #6.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1990, Ray Davies and the rest of The Kinks were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He was knighted in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2023, The Kinks began a celebration of their 60-year career with two box sets\u00a0<\/span>The Journey \u2013 Part 1\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and <\/span>The Journey – Part 2,\u00a0 <\/span><\/em>featuring<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>songs handpicked by members of the band, including singles, B-sides, album tracks and\u00a0live performances.<\/p>\n

Happy 80th birthday Ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On This Day, June 21, 1944\u2026 Raymond Douglas Davies, better known as Ray Davies, was born in Fortis Green, London. He and his brother\u00a0Dave Davies,\u00a0formed\u00a0The Kinks\u00a0in 1963, releasing their self-titled debut in 1964. The band went on to release 24 albums, including 1966\u2019s\u00a0Face to Face, 1970\u2019s\u00a0Lola Versus Powerman\u00a0and more, withRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}