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 ...
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 ...
There was perhaps no band of the 1960s' British Invasion more British than the Kinks, with their story-songs that pined intensely for the Merry Olde England of the Davies brothers’ lost North London ...
There were many reasons “Lola Verses Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One,” was a benchmark in the Kinks’ 47-year recording history. The British Rock and Roll Hall of Fame troupe’s eight studio ...
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 ...
On December 18th, just in time for the holidays, music fans can get the kinks out of their system after a long many months in quarantine-hibernation and get their hands on a copy of the new 50th ...
It’s been decades since the Kinks notched a Top 10 hit with “Lola,” but Dave Davies believes the song is more relevant than ever. The 1970 single was controversial upon release because of lyrical ...
Dave Davies recalls the making of 1970's "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" as a period of transition for the Kinks, who were "forging ahead" into a future whose trajectory they ...