Including works by the likes of The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks and more, was 1971 the greatest year in music history? Read more about it here.

The band’s famously chilled out frontman Ray Davies had a hard time accepting that people thought Eddie Van Halen & co. wrote ...

Noel feels he is not alone in garnering influence from The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society on this front. “The Kinks, like The Who, are one of those quintessentially great English ...

The Kinks released their self-titled debut album on Oct. 2, 1964, featuring the classics “You Really Got Me” and “Stop Your Sobbing.” In honor of this 60th anniversary, SPIN explores where ...

Each great British band of the ‘60s had a key moment when they finally took off the training wheels and released an album of all-original material – ie., no covers of their American rock and ...

WHAT'S IN A NAME: Chris Tullar based his original concept album "Not Arthur" on the song titles from The Kinks' landmark 1969 LP "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)." ...

For Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks, the British Invasion was not all what it was cracked up to be. Less than a year ...

The musician was also a founding member of the Kast Off Kinks, a group composed of former members of the original band, along with John Dalton, Mick Avory, and Dave Clarke, which formed in 1994.

Rock band The Kinks have paid tribute to keyboard player John Gosling who has died at the age of 75, with lead singer Ray Davie saying the group are 'deeply saddened' by the loss ...

John Gosling, who played keyboards with the Kinks during a tumultuous and wildly creative run from 1970 to 1978, has died at the age of 75. "We are deeply sadde ...

Avory added, “Today we lost a dear friend and colleague, he was a great musician and had a fantastic sense of humor… which made him popular member of the band, he leaves us with some happy ...