Ray Davies discussed his unusual vocal delivery on the Kinks’ classic track “Waterloo Sunset,” saying he tried to keep the lyrics hidden from his bandmates as they worked on the tune. In a recent ...

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 ...

Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who‘s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during Wednesday at ...

The 1960s was one long party for Dave Davies. While his older brother, Ray, observed and wrote about Swinging London from a distance, The Kinks’ guitarist was aptly dubbed Dave The Rave. He took an ...

According to a comment on X by Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and Little Steven’s Underground Garage, “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks was “the beginning of the modern Hard Rock world as we ...

Andrew Sandoval explains why he and co-author Doug Hinman are publishing an expanded history of the great British band, investing $100,000 in the project ...