"Lola" went on to become a massive hit, reaching No. 1 in Netherlands, Ireland and New Zealand. It peaked at No. 2 in the UK, ...

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 Kinks had to rewrite this rock classic at the last second.

"Sunny Afternoon" crossed generational divides, earning The Kinks a chart-topping hit. What's a few cool points for a No. 1 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Cover songs are a tricky thing to master, and Van Halen's 1978 cover of 'You Really Got Me' split opinions between The Kinks' ...

Day Story Pt 1: 1940-1971 is a thoroughly researched history. Davies reportedly believes it'll kill the market for his own ...

Saturday is Ray Davies’ 70th birthday, but I’m not writing this as an offering or a note of congratulations. Having bought 53 pieces of vinyl or CD plastic by the Kinks, both of his books, his two ...

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 ...

Ray Davies singing "Waterloo Sunset", during the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Charlie Riedel/AP) Last week, there was a flurry of headlines in the English press -- linked ...