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 ...

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 ...

RH 8. “Shangri-La” (Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969) The Kinks’ Dave Davies had this to say about his group’s 1969 album Arthur, “It was a true conceptual ...

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 ...

Revisiting the revolutionary era of angry young men, which placed a cultural focus on working-class stories, reflected in the ...

3. “Misfits” from Misfits (1978). By the time Misfits rolled around, The Kinks had largely given up on the concept album approach, realizing it was not their best path forward in a commercial ...