Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called the ...

They were the founding fathers of riff rock. Later, they’d become obsessed with album-long artistic statements. But in 1967, The Kinks delivered an LP with an identity all its own, one that gained ...

In the classic rock era, live albums played a large part in the way artists connected with their fans. If a backer of an act couldn’t make it out to one of their shows, at least they could pick up a ...