The 1964 Kinks classic rose to the top of the news chain recently when guitarist Dave Davies was forced to defend his ...

I f You Really Got Me is the first thing that springs to mind when you think of The Kinks then fear not, you aren’t alone.

Listen to the guitar work of the Davies brothers and you’ll gain a real insight into how it was all done back in the 1960s.

Lisa Rose/The Star-LedgerFormer Kinks front man Ray Davies sings with the Dessoff Chamber Choir at Town Hall in New York on Thursday. NEW YORK — It was no great stretch for Ray Davies to sing ...

When The Kinks released 'You Really Got Me' in 1964, it shocked the music world with its abrasive tone, but just how exactly did they land upon that sound?

Ozzy Osbourne has suggested that Ray Davies invented heavy metal with his signature guitar-riff opening on "You Really Got Me." While that may be true, Davies's career with and without the Kinks ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of ...

For Ray Davies, all of these issues came to a head on July 15, 1973, when he announced onstage that he was quitting the Kinks. Davies spent much of 1973 working on Preservation , according to ...

The rest of Davies’ friends for the stand included guitarist Pete Mathison, who accompanied him on his long-running X-Ray “Storyteller” tour, techno drummer Phil Hernandez and guitarist ...