the kinks

Ray Davies says “we might make an album next year” after listening to outtakes for album anniversary, with potential for Mick Avory’s return.

Marking the golden anniversary of this masterpiece with a box set featuring singles, outtakes and alternate versions.

There have been plenty of ups and downs throughout the band's career. We sort them all out.

'Decade' combines unearthed songs the Kinks' guitarist wrote between 1971 and 1979.

Ray Davies seemed to laugh off the huge and unexpected revelation as a joke.

Jim Rodford formed Argent with his cousin, Rod Argent, and later played with the Kinks and the Zombies.

Split since 1996, the Kinks have been in talks to reform for their 50th anniversary.

It's no secret that a very large number of rock bands use session players when making records. A lot of people may think that the use of session players means the band using them is not capable of playing the songs they record, but that's just not true. I'll give you an example. The Beach Boys were perfectly capable of playing all their hits live, but it was much easier for Brian Wilson to use ses

As we reported earlier, fans of the Who and the Kinks‘ Ray Davies were quite disappointed to find out they’d sat through two and a half hours of the pomp that was the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony, only to be denied the chance to watch their heroes perform at the big event.