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 ...
You Really Got Me was Britain’s Tutti Frutti, a brutal thunderbolt of teenage lust that explosively changed the game. Ray Davies was the singer-songwriter of The Kinks’ first hit, but it was kid ...
WHAT'S IN A NAME: Chris Tullar based his original concept album "Not Arthur" on the song titles from The Kinks' landmark 1969 LP "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)." The ...
They were the founding fathers of riff rock. Later, they’d become obsessed with album-long artistic statements. But in 1967, The Kinks delivered an LP with an identity all its own, one that gained ...
The Kinks in 1968 (photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart ...