His response was to add pub-jazz brass to The Kinks’ line-up, and write a raw English country-rock album about his ...

A Kinks fan making a pilgrimage to modern-day ... a victory for bureaucracy and the fracturing of a way of life. The character in “20th Century Man”, the opening song, is a disillusioned ...

By the second half of the decade, The Kinks often incorporated musical styles much more common in the first half of the 20th century than the second. These sounds fit well with the stories Davies ...