At last, he is a well-respected man. The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me', 40th-anniversary reissue and 'The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society' deluxe edition are out now.

The Kronikles are a Kinks tribute band, and O’Rourke is its lead singer and rhythm guitarist. “As a mayor, I’ve fallen back into performing,” said O’Rourke, who formed the band this year ...

Barely a year into their career, and Ray Davies was already getting bored with the three-chord guitar assaults the Kinks were discharging. It started with "A Well Respected Man" (see No. 9 on our ...

Listen to My First Time’s new single Man Of Ill Repute, which the band say is their “antithesis” of The Kinks’ A Well Respected Man. The quartet – Isaac (vocals/guitar), Jordanna (drums ...

starting in 1965 with “A Well Respected Man.” Three years later, they got the jump on the modern environmental movement with their album “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.” ...

Being knighted a Commander of the British Empire would probably make you a "well-respected man about town," but even before knighthood, Ray Davies of The Kinks had been a well-respected man of ...

The 79-year-old is chatting over Zoom about the second of the two-part collection, The Journey, released this week to mark 60 years of his band The Kinks ... and “A Well Respected Man”.

I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write.” The Kinks were formed in 1963 and became one of the era's most influential bands - their influence on ...

Of course the onetime leader of the Kinks would rather be writing ... his time on albums like Other People's Lives and Working Man's Café, the two barely heard records of new material he's ...