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

Muswell Hillbillies (RCA, 1971) Ray was hanging out with Warhol in New York by 1971, his roots in Muswell Hill unravelling fast. His response was to add pub-jazz brass to The Kinks’ line-up, and ...

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 ...

Everybody’s in Show-Biz was a hybrid double album, with new studio songs on one LP and a live recording of the Kinks at Carnegie Hall on the other. Ray wrote songs about fame and performing to ...

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 ...

The Kinks’ Dave Davies had this to say about his group’s 1969 album Arthur, “It was a true conceptual piece, and English people just didn’t want to know.” ...

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 ...

As the producer of most of the Kinks’ albums, Ray managed to steer clear of most of the excesses of ‘80s rock production trends. UK Jive, unfortunately, sounds like it was made in 1989 in all ...