The Kinks' Ray Davies represents the gold standard of British songwriting, but Elvis Costello holds one underappreciated Geordie songwriter on the same level.

The Kinks' Ray Davies is among the greatest British songwriters in rock and roll history, but one underrated effort from 1971 still stands out as a favourite.

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Lavish new book unearths never-before-seen-pictures and obscure facts to paint an intimate, day-by-day portrait of The Kinks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Danny Horn, left, as Ray Davies, flings an arm around Oliver Hoare, who plays Dave Davies, during the “Lola” finale of “Sunny ...

During the last several years, both Ray and his brother, founding Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, have revealed in interviews that they are open to doing a reunion project and have even worked on some ...

Nobody was better at the detailed character sketch than Ray Davies of The Kinks during that band’s late ‘60s, early ‘70s heyday. Davies often delivered these snapshots as part of the concept albums ...

CHICAGO — “There was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 ...

The folks at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are nothing if not considerate. On opening night of “Sunny Afternoon,” the jukebox musical about 1960s Brit-rockers The Kinks, they thoughtfully provided ear ...

IT is hard to describe how complete a musical Sunny Afternoon is, drawing you completely into the story of iconic 60s band The Kinks, their highs, their lows and the story of how they were kicked out ...