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 ...

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 ...

The Kinks‘ chief songwriter Ray Davies always seemed to be a bit out of step with the prevailing trends in the world of rock and roll, which is part of why his band’s music stood out from the pack. On ...

Danny Horn, left, as Ray Davies, flings an arm around Oliver Hoare, who plays Dave Davies, during the “Lola” finale of “Sunny Afternoon.” - (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) This is my street and I’m ...

The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...

The Kinks' self-titled debut album is perhaps rightly separated by "You Really Got Me" and songs that are not "You Really Got Me." Released on Oct. 2, 1964, the project can't help but be defined by ...

During his time in the band from 1970 to 1978, Gosling contributed to songs including "Lola" and "Celluloid Heroes" GAB Archive/Redferns John Gosling, former keyboardist for The Kinks, has died at age ...

The Kinks in 1968 (photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart ...

The Kinks were in the middle of a commercial downturn when they made Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire in 1969. Their most recent album, 1968's The Kinks Are the Village Green ...

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 ...

The compilation also includes 16 previously unreleased performances from a July 1993 concert at famous Royal Albert Hall in London. Avory recently chatted with American Songwriter about the ...