Davies published an autobiography, entitled Kink,
in 1996, in which he discussed his bisexuality at length, including a
sexual relationship with Long John Baldry. He also
wrote of the tense professional relationship with his brother over the
Kinks' 30-year career.
In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine
ranked Davies 88th on the list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all
time". [1]
On 30
June 2004,
Davies suffered a stroke in an elevator at the London offices of the BBC, where he had been
promoting his then current album, Bug.
He was released from the hospital on 27 August.
The Kinks were inducted into the British
Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in November 2005. The four original members
were there to receive the award.
He is good friends with horror director, John Carpenter.
Dave's work is featured on the remake of Carpenter's "Village of The
Damned."
As of 2006, Davies has somewhat recovered. He can walk and
talk and play guitar, but has a hard time singing and playing at the
same time, and has not been able to go on tour.
In January of 2007 Davies released his first album of all new
material, Fractured Mindz, in nearly five years. It
was also his first new studio effort since his stroke in the summer of
2004 besides the track "God In my Brain", (which was recorded and
released on the compilation album Kinked in January
of 2006).
Discography
- Dave Davies(AFL1-3603)
(1980)
- Glamour (1981)
- Chosen People (1983)
- In the Mouth of Madness
soundtrack, lead guitar on track # 1 (1995)
- Village of the
Damned soundtrack (1995)
- Purusha and the Spiritual Planet (1998)
- Fortis Green (1999)
- Solo Live - Live Solo Performance at Marion
College (2000)
- Rock Bottom - Live At The
Bottom Line (2000)
- Fragile (2001)
- Bug
(2002)
- Bugged... Live! (2002)
- Transformation - Live at The Alex Theatre
(2003 release from Meta Media)
- Transformation - Live at The Alex Theatre
(2005 release on AngelAir Records)
- Kinked ( 7 March 2006 released on Koch
Records)
- Fractured Mindz (30 January 2007
released on Meta Records via Davies' official website)
- Fractured Mindz (remastered release on
Koch Records, 31st July 2007)
External links
| The Kinks |
| Ray
Davies – Dave Davies
– Mick
Avory |
| Pete
Quaife – John Gosling – John Dalton – Ian
Gibbons – Jim Rodford – Bob
Henrit – Andy Pyle – Gordon Edwards |
| Discography |
| Albums:
The Kinks
(1964) - Kinda Kinks
(1965) - The Kink Kontroversy
(1965) - Face to Face
(1966) - Something Else by the
Kinks (1967) - The
Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
(1968) - Arthur
(Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
(1969) - Lola
versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
(1970) - Muswell Hillbillies
(1971) - Everybody's in Show-Biz
(1972) - Preservation: Act 1
(1973) - Preservation: Act 2
(1974) - Soap Opera
(1975) - Schoolboys in Disgrace
(1976) - Sleepwalker
(1977) - Misfits
(1978) - Low Budget
(1979) - Give the People What
They Want (1981) - State
of Confusion (1983) - Word of Mouth
(1984) - Think Visual
(1986) - UK
Jive (1989) - Phobia
(1993) |
| Songs:
"You Really Got Me" – "Waterloo
Sunset" – "Sunny Afternoon" – "Lola" – "Dedicated Follower of
Fashion" – "All Day and All of the
Night" – "Celluloid Heroes" |
|
| Related:
British Invasion - Argent |
