It’s strange to think a rock band like the Kinks were the genesis of one of the most influential jazz fusion songs ever ...

This jukebox music plays tribute to the great British Invasion band, now in its North American debut in Chicago. The cast is led by a knockout Ray Davies.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Kinks were an electrifying group that ... what they were supposed to do," Horn said. "Songs like 'You Really Got Me' were the birth of heavy metal. No one ever heard a guitar ...

Based on the early life of The Kinks’ Ray Davies, the Olivier Award-winning musical features songs such as “You Really Got Me”, “Waterloo Sunset”, “All Day and All of the Night” and “Lola”. The show ...

Kinks fans on this side of the Atlantic at ... Edward Hall, who staged that production, directs this one, too. Songs include “You Really Got Me,” “Lola” and more. (Through April 27 ...

The first five notes of the Kinks’ 1964 hit “You Really Got Me” are like a punch. An explosion. An electric jolt to the heart. With a guitar sound distorted by Dave Davies taking a razor blade to his ...

Van Halen’s cover of The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and the Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy” bring edgy punk and hard rock flair, adding to a musical snapshot of late ’70s soundscape ...

particularly for a band that captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s as expertly as The Kinks. Pioneering the rebellious, youthful sounds of the swinging sixties through groundbreaking tracks like ‘You ...