Ray Davies and The Kinks were responsible for many musical innovations during the 1960s, but their pioneering 'Dead End ...

The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week, hitting the top 10 on two of them, ...

You might be surprised to learn that these famous classic rock songs were banned by a few different government agencies back ...

It’s January 4th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 2004, Ray Davies of The Kinks was shot in ...

Ray Davies eventually settled with the union, allowing The Kinks to return and play in America in late 1969. The Kinks eventually became one of the most successful British touring acts in the U.S ...

The Davies brothers, whose dynamic throughout The Kinks' history had been notoriously fractious, became increasingly interested in their own pursuits, and the band split up in 1996. In 2018 Ray ...

Yet, The Kinks heralded the 1970s with a turn into theatre. Releasing a string of rock opera LPs with overlapping narratives and characters, singer Ray Davies’ venture into arena showmanship was ...

1460: The Duke of York is killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for Henry VI at the Battle Of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses. 1621: James I cracks the Protestation of Parliament. 1703: ...

No, he cannot say which guests. Past guests have included the Kinks’ Ray Davies, the Feelies, Mission of Burma, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Ronnie Spector, David Byrne, the Dictators ...

1968: Jimi Hendrix is jailed for one day in Stockholm on drink charges after going berserk and destroying everything in his hotel room. 1969: The USSR’s Venera 5 is launched for the first successful ...

The humble one-off, standalone single is a much-neglected art these days; here's a score of the greatest ever examples from ...