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From the Archives
- March 6, 2008
Three decades of Ray Davies' songwriting, from 1964's "The Kinks" to the band's ultimate greatest-hits records
- February 10, 2006
The Kinks leader on New Orleans, his first solo album and road rage
Recordings and Reviews
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Even before the Kinks made their first hit, the 1964 fuzz rocket "You Really Got Me," singer-composer Ray Davies was writing about euphoria in the past tense — check out "I Believed You," a brash 1963 demo included on this six-CD set and recorded when the Kinks were still a North London dance...
2008 RS:
Biography
The Kinks were part of the British Invasion, and their early hits, "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night," paved the way for the power chords of the next decade's hard rock. But most of leader Ray Davies' songs have been elegies for the beleaguered British middle class, scenarios for rock theater, and tales of show-business survival. After their first burst of popularity, the Kinks...
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