Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called the ...

With their fifth album, Something Else by the Kinks, the Kinks vaulted themselves from a breakout band and established that they were around to stay in the world of rock 'n' roll. In a post summer of ...

The recordings the Kinks made in their first decade rank alongside anything made by the band's British Invasion contemporaries. The string of singles and albums the released made them stars, and as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

They were the original bad boys of British pop and turned sibling rivalry into an art form. No, not Noel and Liam Gallagher. Thirty years before Oasis released their first album, Ray Davies and Dave ...

During his time in the band from 1970 to 1978, Gosling contributed to songs including "Lola" and "Celluloid Heroes" GAB Archive/Redferns John Gosling, former keyboardist for The Kinks, has died at age ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns Tom Hustler/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Reflecting on ...

The Kinks have a strange relationship with America. Their influence on American popular music is undeniable—from "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" to "Lola" and "Come Dancing"—but ...

The origin of The Kinks' band name is a revelation that's just hitting some fans. This iconic English rock band, hailing from Muswell Hill in north London in the UK, was formed back in 1963. Made up ...

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 classic ...

Reflecting on the cross-generational appeal of his band in an interview in the mid-90s, Ray Davies said The Kinks were immune to the backlash that some of their 60s peers suffered when punk arrived.