Six decades after its initial release, rock legends The Kinks have officially broken the historic record for the longest gap ...

Davies' influences are scattered far and wide —but he hasn't always appreciated how musicians have responded to the Kinks' ...

You Really Got Me cemented the Kinks as pioneers of the British Invasion. Along with Dave Davies’ infectious guitar riff, the in-your-face solo – which, for decades, was wrongly attributed to a ...

In January 1978, Van Halen released their debut single, a cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me.” The tune became a radio ...

The Kinks' Ray Davies made two 6,000-mile round trips over the course of a week and a half to prevent their song "Lola" from ...

The band’s string of albums in the first half of the decade was steady and, for the most part, forgettable. Everybody’s in Show-Biz, the two-act Preservation series, Soap Opera, Schoolboys in Disgrace ...

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 ...

The Kinks' "Father Christmas," which was released as a single on Nov. 25, 1977, is a rather unlikely holiday song. For starters, the song's premise is anything but festive. The protagonist is in front ...

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of KINKS and Ray DAVIES and Dave DAVIES and Pete QUAIFE and Mick AVORY; L-R: Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory. The Kinks' "You Really ...

The Kinks set themselves apart from the rest of the British Invasion via the ingenuity and cleverness of Ray Davies’ writing. On top of that, their instrumental approach could switch from tough to ...

Before garage rock and heavy metal, there were the Kinks. In 1964, the London band’s use of power chords and fuzzy distortion on “You Really Got Me” influenced the Rolling Stones (“Satisfaction”), the ...