The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned, written off as 60s relics. Their only significant hit since 1967, Days, hardly arrested a calamitous, lift-shaft fall which hit bottom with a ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the Kinks hit the charts with a catchy song about a romantic encounter in a London nightclub between a clueless young rube and an ingenue who “walked like a woman but talked like a ...

The Kinks' 60-year history has been quite a journey. At times, the discord between brothers Ray and Dave Davies threatened to overshadow the music that was being made. But as Ray writes in the liner ...

Ray Davies has unveiled the full tracklisting and guest stars for his upcoming See My Friends LP. Among the musicians appearing on the album of songs first recorded by Davies with The Kinks is Paloma ...

Ray Davies has reportedly confirmed that he is writing a musical on The Kinks and is looking at ways to find its perfect cast. The singer, who founded the rock group with his brother Dave in 1964, ...

This isn’t the first time a tribute to Ray Davies has ever been offered. After all, Davies is one of the most prolific frontmen of all time, as evidenced by the legacy of The Kinks and the remarkable ...

The story and music of The Kinks belong on Broadway. No question. We’ve had “Jersey Boys,” “The Who’s Tommy,” Beatlemanias, The Doors and “Stereophonic.” Ray Davies’ band was a poetic paradox and thus ...