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 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 ...

The Kinks‘ chief songwriter Ray Davies always seemed to be a bit out of step with the prevailing trends in the world of rock and roll, which is part of why his band’s music stood out from the pack. On ...

The Kinks often don't get enough credit for their contributions to music.

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 ...

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 ...