“Sunny Afternoon,” the jukebox tuner chronicling the rise of 1960s British rock band The Kinks, has its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater under the direction of artistic director ...

The Kinks released Something Else, September 15, 1967. It may not have been as consistent as 1966's Face To Face but its several outstanding tracks brought the overall quality of the album very close ...

You hope for sun and you get grey skies. So it is with this jukebox musical, a tedious trudge through the Kinks’ discography, with a book by Joe Penhall. Before they became the Kinks, they were the ...

You Really Got Me was Britain’s Tutti Frutti, a brutal thunderbolt of teenage lust that explosively changed the game. Ray Davies was the singer-songwriter of The Kinks’ first hit, but it was kid ...

The Kinks were heading into uncharted territory in the Sixties. The London rockers blew up in the early days of the British invasion, topping the charts with violently rowdy bangers like “You Really ...

Dave Davies looks back fondly on the era captured in a new collection of the greatest hits the Kinks released after signing to Arista Records in the ‘70s. “The Journey – Part 3” comes out July 11, ...

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 story of The Kinks is a quintessential part of music history for a younger generation of wannabe rock stars - Sunny Afternoon stands as ...

The record producer also oversaw hits by Manfred Mann and the duo Chad & Jeremy and was an early backer of David Bowie. By The Associated Press Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger ...

Shel Talmy, the producer behind hits including the Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” and the Who’s “My Generation,” died on Wednesday following complications from a stroke, a representative confirmed to ...