A deeply personal 1967 song became one of the most acclaimed tracks ever recorded—even though it barely made an impact in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

With their fifth album, Something Else by the Kinks, the Kinks vaulted themselves from a breakout band and established that they were around to stay in the world of rock 'n' roll. In a post summer of ...

In 1964, the Kinks released what would become their breakthrough hit with the song “You Really Got Me.” The single, from the ...

Most Kinks fans have heard the story of how Ray Davies invented the Kinks' groundbreaking 'You Really Got Me' guitar sound by stabbing an amplifier with a knitting needle -- just as most Kinks fans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as ...

There was perhaps no band of the 1960s' British Invasion more British than the Kinks, with their story-songs that pined intensely for the Merry Olde England of the Davies brothers’ lost North London ...

The Kinks have a strange relationship with America. Their influence on American popular music is undeniable—from "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" to "Lola" and "Come Dancing"—but ...

Ray Davies has given an update about The Kinks' reunion Ray Davies has given an update on The Kinks‘ reunion he hinted back in June. Last month, the frontman said that the band were getting back ...

John Gosling, the musician who played keyboards in The Kinks for the bulk of the 1970s, has died at the age of 75, the band confirmed in a message that Ultimate Classic Rock reported. "We are deeply ...

They were the original bad boys of British pop and turned sibling rivalry into an art form. No, not Noel and Liam Gallagher. Thirty years before Oasis released their first album, Ray Davies and Dave ...