Take New York, remember Paris or sing of Chicago, but don’t ever forget that Southern California is the leading landscape of pop-music dreamers. From the days when Bing Crosby crooned of the San ...

Celluloid Heroes-- In the classic song "Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks, Ray Davies sings about how he wishes his life was a nonstop Hollywood movie show because, as he sings in the song, "celluloid ...

When the Kinks recorded The Village Green Preservation Society in 1968, the north London quartet was not trying to create a commercial failure. Quite the opposite. But surely they must have realized ...

John Gosling, a former keyboard player for the Kinks, has died. He was 75. Gosling joined the Kinks in 1970 and stayed in the band until 1978. He appeared on 10 albums and embellished such hits as ...

The Rolling Stones and The Beatles might get the most votes for best British group of their era (or of all time), but The Kinks deserve to be a part of that conversation as well. The Kinks were poetic ...

The Kinks played a leading part of the British Invasion of America. With Ray Davies' incredible song-writing talent at the helm, they soon became one of popular music's most significant bands, ...