the kinks

Van Halen were introduced to the world when their cover of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" was released as their first single on Jan. 28, 1978.

Nobody was really happy with way things turned out, not even Ray Davies.

This was the first time Ray and Dave Davies took the stage with Mick Avory and Pete Quaife after ditching their earlier moniker, the Ravens.

Like many British rockers of his generation, the Kinks frontman has a big crush on America.

It wasn't a Kinks reunion, but it was close.

For all the band's ‘60s successes in England, they didn't hit their U.S. chart peak until 1979.

Their string of albums in the first half of the decade was steady and, for the most part, forgettable.

At various points in 2013 and 2014, Ray and Dave Davies both expressed a hope that they'd find a way to get the Kinks back together in time for the band's 50th anniversary.

You know what I hate? When I'm at a shindig and there's a bunch of no-goodnicks pulling shenanigans on people. It's that old-timey language that gets your pal Brizz strange looks. I bring this up because on this day in 1966, the final episode of the American music variety show 'Shindig...

Most Kinks fans have heard the story of how Ray Davies invented the Kinks' groundbreaking 'You Really Got Me' guitar sound by stabbing an amplifier with a knitting needle.