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.

SIR Raymond Douglas Davies and the United States Of America – let’s just say it’s a complicated relationship. Their paths ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies recalled the celebrated moment a slashed-open speaker cone created the iconic distorted sound for “You Really Got Me” – and admitted he didn't expect it to work.

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 ...

Even though Kinks headmaster Ray Davies had traded a loud electric band for an intimate, acoustic duo format, and found himself in this moment performing… Ray Davies With The 88 @ Canyon Club 3 ...

Frustrated at the lack of attention given to now-classic albums such as The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, Ray turned his back on singles in the 70s, instead writing sometimes ...