Their first album, Kinks (1964) featured a blend of old school R&B and rockabilly, along with primordial punk. Indeed, some ...

The Kinks were responsible for writing some of the most exciting, enervating songs in rock, but on 'Strangers', Dave Davies proved they could get down deep, too.

Bob Dylan inspired Ray Davies of The Kinks to write “Sunny Afternoon”, but it wasn’t “inspiration” in the general sense. While writing the song, Davies was exhausted and over it living in London. He ...

The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week, hitting the top 10 on two of them, decades after it was first released.

Kinks singer and songwriter Ray Davies dipped back to his native England’s Victorian period, penning songs about a more pastoral and innocent time that somehow served as comments on modern-day ...

The journey took him across Waterloo Bridge - and a few years later it was to Waterloo that the Kinks returned for this, their best-loved song. Even before the Kinks recorded ‘Waterloo Sunset ...