The Kinks’ breakthrough hit “You Really Got Me” arrived 60 years ago this summer. In celebration of the milestone anniversary, the legendary British Invasion band is releasing a limited-edition 7-inch ...

'He wanted to be contrary': Ray Davies in 1967 - Getty For Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, the British Invasion was not all it was cracked up to be. Less than a year after The Beatles opened the ...

The musicians who were billed on an album weren’t always the ones who physically played the instruments for the record. Session musicians were and are commonplace in the popular music industry, and ...

The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...

Arts writer Geoff Edgers produced and starred in a 2010 documentary, “Do It Again,” about his quirky quest to convince Ray and Dave Davies to reunite the Kinks (spoiler: He failed), during which he ...

Shel Talmy, the American record producer who helped foment the British Invasion by capturing the scabrous guitar riff in the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and Roger Daltrey’s stuttering vocal line in the ...

FROM the distant perspective of my younger days, I always thought being a grandad would be relaxing. I expected to potter ...

Our reviewer's verdict on the musical tale of the rise and fall-outs of Muswell Hill firebrands The Kinks, A Sunny Afternoon, ...

Shel Talmy, the producer behind hits including the Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” and the Who’s “My Generation,” died on Wednesday following complications from a stroke, a representative confirmed to ...