Ray Davies of The Kinks is an eminent songwriter. His work is timeless. One song, in particular, influenced him to pick up the guitar back in the '50s.

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The musicians who were billed on an album weren’t always the ones who physically played the instruments for the record. Session musicians were and are commonplace in the popular music industry, and ...

Theatre Royal Brighton will welcome the acclaimed musical Sunny Afternoon. Running from Wednesday, December 17 to January 3, ...

The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...

Ray Davies may have been the songwriting genius in The Kinks, but brother Dave was responsible for defining their 60s sound. The lead guitarist has a valid claim for having invented heavy metal via ...

Arts writer Geoff Edgers produced and starred in a 2010 documentary, “Do It Again,” about his quirky quest to convince Ray and Dave Davies to reunite the Kinks (spoiler: He failed), during which he ...

The Kinks were trend setters in a lot of different ways. Though most notably, they were one of the first major musical acts to outwardly discuss homosexuality and gender non-conformity. Even though ...

Sunny Afternoon, the Olivier Award-winning show about The Kinks, will run at Theatre Royal Brighton from Wednesday, December ...

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 ...