Date/time:
Mon 28th
April 2014
7.30pm -
9.15pm
Venue:
Stratford Arts House
Price:
£14 with interval
Ray
Davies CBE, one of the most successful and influential songwriters to emerge
from the British Invasion of the 1960s, founded the rock band The Kinks with
his brother Dave in London in 1964, and they celebrate 50 years this year.
The
band’s string of 14 top ten international hits began with ‘You Really Got Me’,
followed by ‘All Day and All of The Night’, ‘Tired of Waiting’, ‘Set Me Free’,
‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’, ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘Waterloo Sunset’,
‘Lola’,‘Apeman’ and ‘Come Dancing’ among many others.
Davies
has released two solo albums, a choral collection of Kinks classics and his
recent collaborations album, See My Friends, saw him return again to the top
ten working with the likes of Metallica, Bruce Springsteen and Mumford and
Sons. Davies collaborated with Barrie Keeffe in 1981 on his first stage
musical, Chorus Girls, and in 1988 wrote 80 Days with Snoo Wilson, which was
produced at the La Jolla Playhouse. He returned with his third musical, Come
Dancing, in 2008 at Stratford East which won the What’s On Stage Best off West
End Musical Award.
He
performed at the London Olympics followed by his most successful solo tour to
date, he is working on a new musical and his second autobiography, Americana,
is now out.
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