The Kinks could get it done in many different ways when it came to their albums. They could give you one where every song played into some all-encompassing theme. Or they could simply deliver a ...

Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called the ...

The Kinks have assumed several different guises in their impressive rock and roll history. They began as furious riff-rockers, segued into intelligent popsters, took a hallowed pit stop in theme album ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images From the powerful bass tone on 1964's You Really Got Me to their last album, ...

The songs Ray Davies wrote for The Kinks changed the course of music history. Experts cite “You Really Got Me,” for example, with its violent power chords, as the first true hard-rock tune and the ...

The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British rock groups, continue the 60th Anniversary celebrations of their illustrious musical journey with part two of their career-defining anthology, The Journey, ...

Ray Davies discussed his unusual vocal delivery on the Kinks’ classic track “Waterloo Sunset,” saying he tried to keep the lyrics hidden from his bandmates as they worked on the tune. In a recent ...

The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British rock groups, today reveal a special new Ray Davies mix of the band's 1974 studio track “Money Talks,” released as a new digital single and video on October ...

The Kinks' 60-year history has been quite a journey. At times, the discord between brothers Ray and Dave Davies threatened to overshadow the music that was being made. But as Ray writes in the liner ...

“There was The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 years. “And ...