The Kinks’ first three albums were typical early 60s makeweights, subsidiary to the singles. Though Ray’s wish to make Face ...

What happens when you build your life — and your friendships — around a band that can’t keep it together forever.

The Kinks proved themselves to be a band with massive commercial appeal. Their roots in the mod subculture and tendency to ...

But once The Kinks’ concept albums started to become less and less commercial in the first half of the ‘70s, the band needed to retrench. They did so by plugging back in with more modern arena ...