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 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 ...

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 musicians who were billed on an album weren’t always the ones who physically played the instruments for the record. Session musicians were and are commonplace in the popular music industry, and ...

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 Kinks were trend setters in a lot of different ways. Though most notably, they were one of the first major musical acts to outwardly discuss homosexuality and gender non-conformity. Even though ...

John Gosling, the former keyboardist for English rock band the Kinks, has died. He was 75. A publicist for the group confirmed the news to EW. The Kinks announced his death on social media Friday. "We ...

Christmas came early for Kinks fans as, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Kinks‘ Ray and Dave Davies performed together onstage. The unannounced and unexpected reunion took place Friday at ...

It didn't strike me as a great idea: Ray Davies, frontman for the legendary band The Kinks, had paired some of the group's most popular songs with a full choir. It turns out I was wrong. There have ...

Though few noticed it at the time, The Kinks, the perennial also-ran act in the British Invasion of the '60s, reached its apex in 1968 with the release of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation ...

John Gosling, a keyboardist for The Kinks, died on Friday. He was 75. Members of the legendary British rock group paid tribute to the piano player on social media following his death. “We are deeply ...