Taking Sides: Ray Davies vs. Dave Davies

No-one as important as Larry Page though.

Larry Page said you always had to remember to take a heavy coat when visiting Ray because he never turned the heating on.

LMAO, just like my parents, especially my Dad. Bet Ray doesn't even keep the boiler pilot lit.

I'm sure I've always read that Ray & Dave Davies had Welsh ancestry - as the name Davies suggests. However, it turns out that the name Davies came from their father's stepfather and that his real father's name was Kelly (so maybe they had Irish ancestry!) I don't think any of this was in the Johnny Rogan biography despite him stuffing the book full of every possible fact imaginable about the Davies family.

Unrelated…

Apparently Ray pronounces it Day-viz or Davis and Dave pronounces it Day-veez…?

The second is the correct pronunciation. Which Ray would know if he was actually Welsh.

Ah. Dave recently tweeted out that when people call him Davis he thinks they’re talking about someone else .

Ray pronounces it so as to rhyme with Maurice Gibb.

Some years ago I figured out the actual Maurice pronunciation but with Davies I grew up assuming Day-veez bc every American says it that way. But then I heard an interview with Ray where he insisted it was pronounced the other way, so I thought just like with Maurice I've been a rube all this time saying Day-veez... and then that tweet from Dave appeared.

Somebody on X just asked Dave what he thought of the Raincoats Lola cover and he said he wasn't familiar. He checked it out and declared it the best version.

Ray tricked me too. He had me misprouncing Terence Davies last name last weekend at MoMi.