The Kinks

Latest about The Kinks

Dave Davies studio portrait
The Kinks' Dave Davies: The 11 blues songs that changed my life

By Dave Davies Published

Erstwhile Kinks guitarist and power-chord pioneer Dave Davies recalls the vinyl discoveries that set him on his lifelong rock’n’roll journey

Bands & Artists
Ray and Dave Davies embrace onstage at the Q Awards in 2018
Ray and Dave Davies are getting on well and would "never say never" to a Kinks reunion

By Fraser Lewry Published

The Kinks: Brothers exhibition of paintings is currently showing in London

Bands & Artists
The Kinks standing next to a Give The People What They Want billboard
The Kinks trade music-hall whimsy for slabs of arena rock on Give The People What They Want

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend

Albums
The Kinks posed in London in May 1969. Members of the band are, from left, singer and guitarist Ray Davies, drummer Mick Avory (in front), bassist John Dalton (behind) and guitarist Dave Davies.
This Kinks album was snubbed for five decades. Then the world realised it was a prog masterpiece

By Jo Kendall Published

They were pipped to the rock opera post by The Who’s Tommy. A commercial flop at the time, it’s a perfect commentary on today’s political climate

Albums
The Kinks holding a cymbal, 1964
All Day And All Of The Night: The fractious story of the Kinks classic they're still arguing about

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

For a song at Hard Rock Ground Zero, there sure is a lot of disagreement about You Really Got Me

Tracks & Singles
The Kinks in 1964, publicity photo
How a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created The Kinks' All Day And All Of The Night

By Rob Hughes Published

The story of the song that schooled Metallica's James Hetfield

Tracks & Singles
Dave Davies with a guitar on a New York street, and Moby looking pensive in the desert
Dave Davies fires back after Moby criticises The Kinks' classic Lola

By Fraser Lewry Published

Moby describes Lola's lyrics as "gross and transphobic" and "unevolved"

3 Comments
Music
Prog concept album debate image
Debate: What’s the greatest concept album of all time?

By Martin Kielty Published

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is incredible, but were Genesis outdone by Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion or even The Kinks?

68 Comments
Albums
The Kinks in 1965, John Wayne Gacy in 1978
The night The Kinks partied at serial killer John Wayne Gacy's house

By Fraser Lewry Published

The Kinks' US tour of 1965 was eventful even before the Killer Clown got involved

Bands & Artists
Van Halen and The Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies
Why The Kinks could never fully get on board with Van Halen’s version of You Really Got Me

By Niall Doherty Published

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

Bands & Artists
1 2 3 4 5 Archives