The Kinks, from the British Invasion, evolved steadily over time. They stayed true to their roots but still tried new things ...

In the wake of the band's headlining set at Glastonbury—during which singer Matty Healy (jokingly?) proclaimed himself the ...

T he Kinks' frontman Ray Davies has named the song that he doesn't enjoy being compared to The Beatles. It is not unusual for ...

To read about the polymath was to marvel at how much he was venerated by the best and seemingly brightest. As no less than Oprah Winfrey once said, Nichols was the individual that everyone wanted to ...

He was crucial to the sound of 1970s hits including "All the Young Dudes," "Can't Get Enough," "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and "Feel Like Makin' Love." ...

Born in 1944 on Muswell Hill (which more or less gave the title to a 1971 album), the singer and principal composer of The ...

The brunt of this astrological transit will be borne by one zodiac sign, and one zodiac sign alone — all major placements, ...

The 1960s were an incredibly exciting time for guitar music, and that can be heard perfectly in the plethora of amazing riffs ...

After establishing her ethereal voice on beloved tracks like ‘Le Temps De L’Amour’ or ‘Tous les garçons et les filles’, the vocalist recorded an album of English-language cover songs in 1968, titled ...

Branded “not only The Kinks' greatest single outside the 1960s, but one of their very best songs full stop”, ‘A Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy’, off the 1978 album Misfits narrated the journey ...

When you listen to these songs in this theater, you are hearing what it would have sounded like to hear The Kinks 60 years ago. They've got the weirdest songs, the weirdest characters.

The greatest hits of The Kinks are performed in “Sunny Afternoon,” the story of the iconic rock and roll band, running through April 27 at The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.