Ray Davies, the legendary lead singer of The Kinks, is back with creative and unusual interpretations of songs from his extensive catalog

A new exhibition showing rare photographs of acts including The Beatles, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and The Kinks are set to go on display at London's National Portrait Gallery later this year.

Ray Davies has revealed that London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray were keen to manage The Kinks in their '60s heyday.

Nobody expected Karen O to fellate her mic and pour beer on herself on SNL. Although we all probably hoped she would. And boomy sound aside, the band certainly played live and, for their part, sounded great at 30 Rock. But after that performance and a somewhat dazed turn on Jools, I was wondering if maybe Karen and the YYYs were turning a little...

In part compiled by Ray Davies, this mostly chronological jumble of singles, album tracks, alternate mixes, mono versions, live cuts, rarities, hits, misses, and even a couple demos and one rehearsal attempts the Herculean task of compiling the Kinks' four-decade career into one 6xCD box.read more