# In the 1970s, Noel Gallagher fell in love with The Kinks. Decades later, he wished he never met Ray Davies

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/in-the-1970s-noel-gallagher-fell-in-love-with-the-kinks-decades-later-he-wished-he-never-met-ray-davies/
- Published: 2026-10-26T15:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T07:49:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/1970s-noel-gallagher-love-the-kinks-wished-he-never-met-ray-davies/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Gallagher admired The Kinks and Ray Davies.
- Davies gave a curt answer about *Village Green*.
- The meeting did not erase Davies’s influence on Gallagher.

## Summary

Noel Gallagher has said that meeting his musical hero Ray Davies left him disappointed, despite his lasting admiration for The Kinks. Gallagher recalled approaching Davies to ask about the album *The Village Green Preservation Society*, only to receive a brief, dismissive reply.

The article presents Davies as a major influence on Gallagher and, more broadly, on Britpop, pointing to the sound and songwriting of early Kinks records. Gallagher said the encounter made him glad he had not met all his heroes, but it did not diminish his respect for Davies or his ambition to write songs as enduring as “Waterloo Sunset”.

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