His son Aleksandras Napoleonas Dičpetris also became a writer and author of works including the allegorical travel tale novel Trys Dienos Pasauly and his daughter Rasa married Ray Davies of The Kinks and recorded with them as a backup vocalist.
# A reference in Ray Davies' song Village Green Preservation Society on the 1968 The Kinks album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
Ray Davies, English rock musician, best known for his work with The Kinks.
In The Kinks' rock opera Preservation: Acts 1 & 2 Ray Davies states that his character "Flash", at that point leader of the Government, had started out as a "Second Hand Car Spiv" in the song "Scum of the Earth".
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"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." - Melody Maker
It has performed a number of times with film composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded a significant amount of material for film and television, appearing on more than 60 CDs including albums by Katherine Jenkins, Alfie Boe, Jonathan Ansell and Lesley Garrett and by pop artists Travis, The Divine Comedy, and Ray Davies.
In the liner notes to The Doors Box set, Robby Krieger has denied the allegations that the song's musical structure was stolen from Ray Davies, where a riff similar to it is featured in the Kinks "All Day and All of the Night".
Recently, with an influx of new, younger members, the choir has branched out, with singers providing vocal support for Ray Davies in live gigs and his The Kinks Choral Collection album, Andrea Bocelli, Goldfrapp, Bombay Bicycle Club, Noel Gallagher, Faryl Smith and singing the lead track Zadok the Priest on the album "Pride of the Nation" by the Band of the Coldstream Guards.
The venue has also featured performances by music artists Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Ray Davies, Suzanne Vega, Kate Rusby, Richard Thompson and José González.
Most theatre productions tend to be locally produced, though the venue is used by touring musicians and comedians, and over the years it has hosted the likes of Max Boyce, Ken Dodd and the Kinks' Ray Davies.
The album is notable for the inclusion of a cover of The Kinks' "I Go to Sleep" (they had covered that band's "Stop Your Sobbing" on their debut album, and band leader Chrissie Hynde would have a personal relationship with Kinks' frontman Ray Davies), as well as the sexually-forward tunes "Bad Boys Get Spanked" and "The Adultress".
Released on the Trace Elements imprint, their 1987 debut EP found them covering Ray Davies and reciting the Gettysburg Address.
"Young Conservatives" is the title of a 1982 song by The Kinks from the album State of Confusion, in which Ray Davies comments on the general swing to the right under Margaret Thatcher.