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Jan 11, 2022 · Dave Davies performing in Westbury, New York, in 2019. Photo: Al Pereira/Getty Images. My job is partly about trying to get people to care enough about something to read about it. So, I agree that we must lead with the heart at times. A musician that really influenced me was a guy named Chet Baker. I'd never played trumpet, and when I learned ...
Oct 13, 2018 · Around the time Dave Davies scored a hit in 1967 with “Death of a Clown,” he had a spiritual awakening and began questioning mortality. The lyrics of the song, which he co-wrote with his ...
Feb 3, 2022 · Visionary Dreamer: Dave Davies Turns 75. Jim Sullivan revisits his years in conversation with the Kinks guitar great. February 3, 2022 Jim Sullivan. Dave Davies from the cover of AFL1-3603 (Image: Discogs) It was July of 1980 and I was just a year into my freelancing life for the Boston Globe. I’d been a Kinks fan for years – on record, in ...
May 15, 2023 · Dave Davies uncovered some dusty corners in that relationship in a recent conversation with UCR. "Humor saved the Kinks many times, I think," he says, while also praising his brother's ability to ...
Dave Davies is a guest host for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Before joining the Daily News in 1990, Davies was city hall bureau chief for KYW News Radio, Philadelphia's commercial all-news ...
Aug 24, 2022 · Dave Davies was born in London in 1947. Best known as the lead guitarist of the English band the Kinks, he pioneered the use of distortion in rock music. What’s your earliest memory? When I was three or four, I would stand at the front door waiting for my mum to come home from work. My sisters would console me. I always felt protected as a kid.
Davies became a senior reporter at public radio station WHYY-FM in 2010. He covers Philadelphia government and politics, and he produces enterprise reports on emerging city and regional issues for WHYY's multimedia news outlets. His blog, Off Mic, is featured on WHYY's NewsWorks.org. Davies is also a regular fill-in host for Terry Gross on NPR ...
