The ban helped the band shape their musical legacy.

Rumor has it that Jimmy Page recorded the iconic You Really Got Me Solo – however, Davies refutes these claims and reveals ...

You Really Got Me cemented the Kinks as pioneers of the British Invasion. Along with Dave Davies’ infectious guitar riff, the ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The road to reunion for the Kinks has been fraught with in-fighting and bitter sibling rivalry, but despite it all the band has ...

The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies has confirmed that the band once partied with the "killer clown" John Wayne Gacy, before he ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was perhaps no band of the 1960s' British Invasion more British than the Kinks, with their story-songs that pined intensely for the Merry Olde England of the Davies brothers’ lost North London ...

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 ...

John Gosling, the musician who played keyboards in The Kinks for the bulk of the 1970s, has died at the age of 75, the band confirmed in a message that Ultimate Classic Rock reported. "We are deeply ...