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)." ...

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 ...

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 ...

The album was released to acclaim but low sales; the TV show was pulled due to lack of finance — and the band had been beaten to the rock-musical by The Who ’s Tommy. Oddly, Arthur ’s time seems to be ...

Sixty years. Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. 50 million records sold. Five US Top 10 singles and twenty Top 10 singles in the UK. The achievements go on and on. For a band out of Muswell Hill, England, that ...