Today (June 21) marks the 80th birthday of Ray Davies, best known as the longtime frontman of The Kinks. During his band’s 30-year career, the insightful and prolific singer/songwriter composed dozens ...

The Kinks emerged alongside The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, but Dave and Ray Davies had to fashion ...

Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks helped rocket them to stardom, and the story behind how it came to be ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...

The Kinks released "You Really Got Me," which put power chords on the map, and has a popular myth involving Led Zeppelin ...

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies turns 70 years old today, believe it or not. He formed the Kinks with his brother Ray (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), with whom he has had a rocky relationship over the years ...

Dave also wrote or co-wrote quite a few great tunes that appeared on Kinks albums. In the early 1980s, he began releasing solo albums, and has continued to be relatively prolific in the years since ...

The Kinks have been teasing fans about a reunion that never seems to materialize for the greater part of the past decade, but it’s now finally happening. In a 2018 interview with Channel 4 News in ...

The Kinks meditate on lazy days and mortality in “Time Song,” an unreleased track that’s on the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, out ...

Dave Davies is calling out Moby for his comments about The Kinks' hit song "Lola." Moby, 60, recently called spoke about feeling the lyrics to "Lola" are "gross" and "transphobic" in an interview with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as ...