With their fifth album, Something Else by the Kinks, the Kinks vaulted themselves from a breakout band and established that they were around to stay in the world of rock 'n' roll. In a post summer of ...

The Kinks released "You Really Got Me," which put power chords on the map, and has a popular myth involving Led Zeppelin ...

Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks helped rocket them to stardom, and the story behind how it came to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And yet when the first undeniable, clanging chords of Lola rang out on its release 50 years ago, it was clear The Kinks had come ...

The recordings the Kinks made in their first decade rank alongside anything made by the band's British Invasion contemporaries. The string of singles and albums the released made them stars, and as ...

Before garage rock and heavy metal, there were the Kinks. In 1964, the London band’s use of power chords and fuzzy distortion on “You Really Got Me” influenced the Rolling Stones (“Satisfaction”), the ...

"Lola" went on to become a massive hit, reaching No. 1 in Netherlands, Ireland and New Zealand. It peaked at No. 2 in the UK, ...

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of KINKS and Ray DAVIES and Dave DAVIES and Pete QUAIFE and Mick AVORY; L-R: Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory. The Kinks' "You Really ...

In 1971, the great British rock group The Kinks embarked on a new phase of their career by signing with RCA Records. Freed from their old label Pye's insistence on hit singles, Ray Davies' song ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

"Sunny Afternoon" crossed generational divides, earning The Kinks a chart-topping hit. What's a few cool points for a No. 1 ...

Ray Davies singing "Waterloo Sunset", during the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Charlie Riedel/AP) Last week, there was a flurry of headlines in the English press -- linked ...