article_snippet: Ray Daviespictured) is the brilliant, but sometimes melancholic, frontman of The Kinks .
article_snippet: Much later, Dave’s musicianship would also be central to the success of The Kinks, but Dave was resented by Ray from day one.
article_snippet: While Dave grew up happy and outgoing, Ray was troubled and solitary and was even sent to a child therapist, which can’t have been usual in working-class North London during the Fifties.
article_snippet: While Rod Stewart Rod Stewart forged Rod Stewart own path towards superstardom, the Ray Davies Quartet, shedding Start and adding drummer Mick Avory, mutated into the Boll-Weevils, the Ravens and, finally, The Kinks.
article_snippet: Pop group 'The Kinks' (pictured in 1964) left to right: Pete Quaife, Ray Davies, Mick Avory and Dave Davies .
article_snippet: And the band’s manager, Larry Page, was present on the day Ray’s first wife, Rasa, who Ray’d met when she was a schoolgirl attending one of their gigs, pleaded with his,
article_snippet: the Ray Davies Quartet, mutated into the Boll-Weevils, the Ravens and, finally, The Kinks (pictured in 1964)
article_snippet: Ray’s parsimony is one of the reasons why the story of The Kinks is a tale of epic in-fighting, as well as marvellous music.
highlights_snippet: Ray Davies was the frontman of iconic band The Kinks .
  