The band’s famously chilled out frontman Ray Davies had a hard time accepting that people thought Eddie Van Halen & co. wrote ...

Not exactly a cozy family relationship: the Kinks had a infamous history of onstage fisticuffs. The hits are just the beginning — they made classic albums as well as disasters, creating one of ...

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 ...

Born in 1944 on Muswell Hill (which more or less gave the title to a 1971 album), the singer and principal composer of The ...

And while they continued making increasingly brilliant albums full of vividly drawn characters and social commentary such as The Kinks Are the Village Green Society, their status as consistent ...

The Kinks, one of the greatest and most influential English rock bands of the 20th century, are reuniting after a hiatus of nearly a quarter century to make a new album. The announcement of plans ...

As they went to work on "Muswell Hillbillies," the Kinks were riding high on 1970's career-reviving "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One," a satirical concept album whose success ...

No matter how they did it, they were quite adept at choosing excellent tracks to begin these LPs. Here are the five best album-openers in the hallowed history of The Kinks. 5. “Do It Again ...

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 ...