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The Kinks : Remembrance Of Kinks Past
Retrospective and Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, March 1999
TAKE A LOOK at that face, the face of Ray Davies, it's the classic Dickensian mug, the face of a silent movie comedian, a vaudevillian, ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 November 1967
THERE is something of the smoking volcano about Ray Davies. Six foot of suppressed quietly spoken, quietly smiling and quietly watching! It is what some ...
The Kinks: One For The Road (Arista)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 26 July 1980
WITH ITS predecessor Low Budget having finally catapulted The Kinks into the American Top Ten after what seems a lifetime of cult status, what could ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, February 2006
The King Kink on getting shot in New Orleans, his relationship with brother Dave, his childhood and upbringing, and on songwriting and lyrics, plus so much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 56mb, total interview length: 58' 21" sound quality: ****
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 23 January 1992
The King Kink on politics; songwriting (and titling!); cover versions of his songs; on Joe Meek and Noel Coward; on Chrissie Hynde, and on living with his songs for so many years.
File format: mp3; file size: 49.5mb, interview length: 54' 07" sound quality: ****
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 February 1992
The Kinks' other brother on new album Phobia; the early days as the Ravens; his relationship with Ray, and Ray's relationship with Chrissie Hynde; and favourite covers of Kinks songs, and his favourite guitar players.
File format: mp3; file size: 34mb, interview length: 37' 04" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 10 May 1969
I MET four disconsolate Kinks last Thursday. Disconsolate because they'd just been told that a film for their latest record 'Plastic Man' was not going ...
Profile by Paul Nelson, Circus, September 1969
"THEY CAME to us in 1964 wearing pink shirts and long frock coats with a song called 'You Really Got Me', which was their third ...
The Kinks: Thank you for the days, Ray
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
ROY HOLLINGWORTH adds a sad chapter to the Kinks chronicle ...
When Kink sees psychiatrist guess who asks the questions!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, August 1965
THE KINKS have been successful for a year now. They appeared last August at a time when everybody said there would be no more groups ...
Ray & Iggy: A Pair of Rock Aristocrats
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 April 1973
IN THEIR own ways, they are both aristocrats. Last week belonged to both of them, with Ray Davies and the Kinks playing two colleges in ...
Dave Davies: The Dedicated Follower
Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, January 2012
Dave Davies swashbuckled his way through the '60s, a teenage musical revolutionary and provocative dandy about town. But in the early '70s, the Kinks guitarist ...
The dramatic ups and downs of Ray Davies
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, July 2012
RAY DAVIES is not an easy man to pin down. Our interview is planned for 5pm at a café in Highgate. No, hang on; it's ...
10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016
SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...
Comment by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1980
They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band. ...
The Blues Project Live at Town Hall (Verve-Forecast); The "Live" Kinks (Reprise)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1967
"LIVE" STUFF ...
Ray Davies (2006) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages transcripts, February 2006
This is a transcript of Gavin's audio interview with Ray. Hear the interview here ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 July 1966
RAY DAVIES reviews the BEATLES LP: 'Really, it's a load of RUBBISH' ...
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 1993
IRELAND HAS the Troubles. England has the Brothers Davies and they, too, have their troubles. Both seem equally irreconcilable. ...
Kit Lambert: The uncovering of the Who and where...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 November 1965
KIT LAMBERT and his partner Chris Stamp manage the Who and the Merseybeats. Chris Stamp is Terence Stamp's brother, more handsome but less photogenic. ...
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, RPM Records, December 2000
KINKY MUSIC was originally issued on June 18, 1965, by Decca Records. The album included twelve instrumental interpretations of songs composed by Kinks Ray and ...
The Kinks: 'All Day And All Of The Night'/'I Gotta Move' (Pye 15714)
Review and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1964
TWO ORIGINAL numbers from Ray Davies, Kinks' lead singer and rhythm guitarist — and the top side could well prove at least as big as ...
The Kinks, Mom's Apple Pie: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 23 November 1972
OVER THE past three years, Ray Davies and the Kinks have acquired a reputation for drunkenly inept live performances. But their appearance at the Felt ...
Summertime Songs on the Heat Parade
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1966
THIS SUMMER may rank along with most Christmases for the number of seasonal records it has produced — every radio station's hit list is loaded ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972
Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...
The New Naturalists: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Sanctuary)
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, September 2004
Definitive 3-CD upgrade of the Kinks' 1968 classic, with the original album in mono/stereo, and a third disc of unreleased and/or hard-to-find material. Includes Mick ...
Preservation is packed with power
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 October 1998
IT HAS BEEN Boston Rock Opera's mission, since its 1993 inception, to dust off, kick up, give respect to, and sometimes tweak the rock operas ...
Kontemplating the Kinks: Nothing's as Bad as Ray Davies Thinks
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, January 1987
RAY DAVIES, we've always been told, is quintessentially English. The classic Kinks songs of the '60s – 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Waterloo Sunset' ...
The Kinks: Preservation Act I (RCA LPL1-5002)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
MUCH HAS been written concerning Ray Davies fragile state of mind with all its eccentric manifestations and how it seems to correlate to his songs, ...
Overview by Gary Lucas, Cogito, February 1970
DUE TO the recent rash release of a rasher of ratified British records, no less, this is more of the same (see last issue if ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2007
"MY SONGWRITING has been my ally through life," Ray Davies muses, "because I ain't got much else." As the creative force behind the Kinks, Davies ...
Julien Temple: The Inner Temple
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 1 December 1984
Wordsmith and sedentary snapper Adam Sweeting interrogates filmmaker and promo video master JULIEN TEMPLE... ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 August 1965
BACK FROM a weekend trip to Germany at London Airport on Monday, I met four hungry Kinks — three pale (Dave, Ray and Pete) and ...
Dave Davies Forgets About The Past
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 13 November 1980
NEW YORK CITY — "Eyes can lie," warns Dave Davies in his song 'Visionary Dreamer'. "And sometimes words are oh so useless..." ...
The Kinks' Arthur: Its genius and its fate
Retrospective by Geoffrey Cannon, Rock's Backpages, October 2019
Arthur (the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), the Kinks's second song-cycle, was released half a century ago, in October 1969. It is now ...
The Kinks: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Sleeve notes by Geoffrey Cannon, Pye Records, Fall 1969
Update 2019. Arthur (the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), the Kinks's second song-cycle, was released half a century ago, in October 1969. It ...
Rave City 66: Groups On The Go Choose The Swingingest Scenes
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
And does it prove that what Manchester is today, London can be tomorrow? ...
20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested
Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968
25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...
Report by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Free Press, 19 December 1969
LIFE WITH the stars, installment one; in which are discussed in seemingly random order that sometimes sorry, sometimes joyous live adventures of the, long-lost-and-presumed-forever-missing-from-America Kinks, ...
The Kinks, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1969
England's Kinks Return After 5-Year Absence ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 October 1969
KINKS WITH POP OPERA ...
The Kinks: The Making Of 'Waterloo Sunset'
Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, January 2009
The timeless 1967 hit, regarded by many as the most beautiful pop song every written, was something so personal that Ray Davies didn't even want ...
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...
The Kinks, Lindisfarne: Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 18 November 1972
ON THEIR day the Kinks are one of the most compelling bands in Britain, and the most uncomplimentary appraisal is that Ray Davies has probably ...
Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 9 April 1969
YEARS AGO, during what someone told me was the height of it all, Ray Davies was best known for the dozens of songs he wrote ...
Putting You Straight About The Kinks
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, March 1966
If you'll allow us to call 'Putting You Straight About The Kinks' a new angle, then this is a new angle on the Kinks! ...
Jimmy Page Gives The Interview Of His Life
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, September 1977
A Three-Part Series — Part One: Pre-Yardbirds ...
The Kinks: BBC Sessions 1964-1977
Review by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2001
GOD BLESS THE BBC for dustingoff its rock archives and releasing them all on CD. This latest batch of goodies is a collection of performances ...
Dave Davies: "I'm Not Good Enough To Go Solo"
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 12 August 1967
DAVE DAVIES tells Alan Walsh ...
The Kinks: The Village Green Preservation Society (Pye)
Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968
KINKS REMINISCING ON THE VILLAGE GREEN ...
The Kinks' Resurgence Continues
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1982
NINETY MINUTES after the Kinks' show at the Seattle Center Coliseum, Ray Davies is strolling out of a restaurant called Bob Murray's Dog House, a ...
On Christmas Eve... RSG Goes Out of its Mind!
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 December 1965
Reports KEITH ALTHAM who previews the show ...
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 August 1969
GEOFFREY CANNON ON POP MUSIC ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 1 January 1967
Face to Face With the Kinks' Pop Satire ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 December 1965
WHEN I SAW Kink Ray Davies last week he was wearing a blue suit, white ankle socks and a weak smile. He was playing a ...
Interview by Nancy Lewis, Fabulous, 24 April 1965
GENE HAS been working very hard editing this issue, but he found out there was still some blank space. So when he stepped out of ...
The Kinks: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 28 October 1972
THE KINKS returned to their native stomping ground, North London, on their Rainbow gig last Saturday night. At first without the brass, they plunged awkwardly ...
Loraine Alterman on Records: New Albums from Vanilla Fudge, Big Brother et al
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1967
Vanilla Fudge: Exciting Album ...
Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 15 May 1965
Who are the girls in the lives of the chart topping boys? Who are the girls who know them, who have encouraged them, who have ...
'You Really Got Me' Was a Jazz Song! Say the Kinks
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
'YOU REALLY Got Me', the Kinks third disc and first hit is now number 2 in the charts. But the story behind it is strange ...
Report by Sylvia Stephen, Fabulous, 4 July 1964
"WE'VE GOT a day off tomorrow," Pete (the kink!) said, washing his hair between shows at Brighton. "Why don't we go to Battersea Park Fun ...
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1978
Untangling fourteen years of rock & roll fantasy ...
Gene Pitney, Amen Corner, Status Quo: Lewisham Odeon/Kinks, Tremeloes, Herd: Walthamstow Granada
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 April 1968
BOREDOM, HIGH JINKS AND CHAOS ...
Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1966
ROCK 'N' ROLL songs, according to a joke now about ten years old, have three types of lyrics: a) I love my baby, b) my ...
The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon: Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, 16 May 2015
A FEW WEEKS AGO Ray Davies was in the building that houses Omnibus Press to attend the launch of a book entitled 100 Years Of British ...
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, February 2015
WELL RESPECTED certainly but hardly a flower to be looked at and most unlikely to laze around in the afternoon, sunny or otherwise. The life ...
The Kinks: They Livened Up The Champagne Circuit
Profile by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 15 August 1964
LOOKS LIKE the Kinks are on the way to the charts at last — with, incidentally, a chance to make impact on the American scene. ...
The Kinks: Tales of Ordinary Madness
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, March 2006
It ain't easy being Ray Davies — the eternal malcontent, "control freak" and genius behind The Kinks. On the eve of a barnstorming solo comeback, ...
This Week's Singles: The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Beach Boys et al
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 May 1967
SUBTLE KINKS HEADING FOR CHART SUCCESS ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, September 1981
MINNEAPOLIS: "It's like death in here," Ray Davies says, inauspiciously welcoming me into Marquette Inn room 1453. The shades are drawn, no lights are on. ...
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Them, Beach Boys, Kinks et al: Singles Reviews
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967
A multitude of newies this week including Presley, Dylan, & Beach Boys ...
Hit Parader's Letter From London
Column by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, October 1966
A FEW WEEKS ago when I met the KINKS for a drink, PETE QUAIFE ruined my stockings! The pub was crowded and in the crush ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...
The Kinks: Drama On The Village Green
Report and Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
IN A SMALL tearoom in BBC's Shepherd's Bush Theatre, Ray Davies sits resting between rehearsals for an In Concert TV show which will eventually hit ...
Ray Davies: Return To Waterloo/Come Dancing With The Kinks
Film/DVD/TV Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
Double bill of Ray Davies' '80s video output ...
The Mugwumps: The Mugwumps; The Kinks: Something Else by the Kinks
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Listener, 14 September 1967
(2019 note) Here is the first of the three pieces I wrote for The Listener, which started me as a rock writer. The second and ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 1998
Ray Davies and Co's first five LPs ...
Kinks: The Singles Collection/Waterloo Sunset — The Songs Of Ray Davies
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, December 1997
It's a shame about Ray: Classic chartbreakers and their creator's solo furrow ...
The Kinks, Herman Brood & His Wild Romance: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1979
Kinks Are Still Crowd-Pleasers ...
The Kinks: Future Of The Kinks
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 31 December 1966
BUSY DOING "nothing much" just prior to Christmas was Kink Mick Avory (an occupational hazard with this group at present) at his home in West ...
The Kinks: Kinks Calm Over No. 1 News
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 8 July 1966
RAY DAVIES lifted the plastic lid covering his salad and viewed the mayonnaise disgustedly. "Oh, no – I hate ketchup!" he sighed and probed disdainfully ...
The Kinks: Kinks Back To Abnormal
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 June 1965
FOLLOWING Dave Davies' recent cymbolic headache and the Kinks withdrawal from their tour, there's been wild speculation about their future. I met them last Friday ...
The Tom Robinson Band: Power In The Darkness (Harvest); The Kinks: Misfits (Arista)
Review by Dave Schulps, Feature, August 1978
"If left is right and right is wrong, you'd better decide which side you're on."– Tom Robinson ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
RAY DAVIES is the King Kink. He composed all their hits and although there is no official leader in the group, Ray is the driving ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 2 April 1965
THERE IS a touch of the "Paul McCartneys" about Peter Quaife of the Kinks. Like Paul he plays bass, and like Paul he is the ...
The Kinks: The Kinks BBC Sessions
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, April 2001
NO DOUBT it's their sheer longevity, but The Kinks remain curiously undervalued: often cited as a key neo-Mod/Britpop inspiration – as if that's anything to ...
The Kinks: Kinks Have Problems
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 3 December 1966
CONSIDER, if you will, the disturbing fact that Ray Davies wants to be Walt Disney; Dave Davies is turning into a saxophonist; Pete Quaife is ...
The Kinks: Kinks Keep To Humour On Discs
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 17 June 1966
WHAT with the new tattooed Kink; Ray Davies sniffing aesthetically into a brown paper bag; Bongo drums, metronomes, flute pumps and golf balls being bandied ...
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1998
MORE SEMINAL Englishness from the kings of Britpop ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 3 August 1974
THE MAIN OBSTACLE between a rock song-writer and Major Form (as ye olde musickologists have it) is Objectivity. ...
The Kinks, Cockney Rebel: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 13 December 1975
"45 MINUTES of something light and bouncy," Steve Harley promises the audience at the Beacon Theatre one brisk Friday night. Cockney Rebel launch into 'Mr ...
The Kinks; The Butts Band: The Palladium, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 22 June 1974
GIVE THE Kinks album a review and you bear the responsibility for Ray Davies' crying for the next three days, I'm told. ...
Thank You for the 1/288th of the Day, Ray!
Memoir by Richard Riegel, Real Groove, April 1997
BACK IN OUR mid-1960s adolescence, my friend B. entertained a magnificently huge crush on Dave Davies of the Kinks. We were young Yanks in thrall ...
The Kinks: Low Budget (Arista)
Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
THE TROUBLE with Ray Davies is that since he forsook the stark, three-chord spleen of 'You Really Got Me' and 'All Day & All Of ...
Dave Davies: He Ain't Heavy, He's Ray's Brother
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1978
HORNSEY IS a sleepy working class neighborhood in the northeast of London, far removed from the teeming heart of the city. Not as far away ...
The Kinks: One For The Road (Arista)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 16 August 1980
THE KINKS' dilemma is one I'll take in preference to the one that concerns the Who, if only because leader Ray Davies isn't given to ...
The Kinks: The Kinks Greatest – Celluloid Heroes (RCA)
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 June 1976
THE RCA Years. The Seventies Kinks complete with horns and female singers. Part 1 – Fat Flabby Annie versus Mr. Black and the Starmaker. The ...
The Kinks: The Preservation of Ray Davies
Live Review by Kris DiLorenzo, Good Times, 7 January 1975
It's Only Showbiz, But He Likes It ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 14 February 1974
THE KINKS traditionally stand as preservers of the eternal verities of their Village Green, fighting off the depredations of predatory capitalists in their dapper demolition ...
Ray Davies: Doggie Tricks And Bizness Licks
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
THIS IS THE TRUE STORY of a street dog and his best friend – an incorrigible pair who get to see each other only on ...
The Kinks: Schoolboys In Disgrace
Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 17 January 1976
I LIKE THE KINKS a lot, but have to say that this album is a pretty uninspired collection of product. ...
The Kinks Face To Face with 1966: Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2004
I. SENSE AND NON-SENSE ...
The Kinks: The Kinks Live at Kelvin Hall
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 16 August 1975
IT'S AMAZING. BY now, Pye must've incorporated virtually every track The Kinks ever cut into one or other of their multifarious compilation albums, and in ...
Ray Davies Gets the Kinks Out Musically
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 6 December 1986
BY VIRTUE OF its title, The Kinks' new Think Visual album should have a more elaborate cover. Instead it is only an exaggerated supergraphic, with ...
Guide by Charles Bermant, The New York Times, 17 December 1998
THE KINKS ARE the only major British Invasion group aside from the Rolling Stones to continue to perform and record, and, like many musicians, have ...
The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Comment by Paul Williams, Rolling Stone, 14 June 1969
I CERTAINLY LOVE the Kinks; it's been fifteen months since I've had a new Kinks album in my hourse, and though I've been listening to ...
The Kinks: Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygroround — Part One
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971
WELL, ALL RIGHT. It took two months but I think I begin to understand the meaning of this album, which is that the Kinks understand, ...
Kinks Don't Mind 'Formby Quartet' Tag
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 18 March 1966
IN A LARGE WHITE house in East Finchley with an orange door (which he says is "red"), in a room with orange walls and an ...
The Kinks Draw An Unruly Crowd
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 1 April 1971
The Kinks: Philharmonic Hall, NYC ...
Review by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1967
IF YOU ARE not a Kinks fan, you are either a) uninformed, or b) not a Kinks fan. If it's the latter, there's nothing you ...
The Kinks: Tales of Drunkenness and Cruelty
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, September 1989
REAL LIVE EARLY '60's beat combos don't just grow on trees. As the greenhouse summer of '89 wears on, The Who and The Rolling Stones ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 January 1966
THE MYSTERIOUS Spider Korner who plays "seven" string guitar and "roams the world", is the musical influence behind the Kinks' next single, Dave Davies revealed ...
The Kinks: Schoolboys In Disgrace
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, December 1975
RAY DAVIES' NEWEST philosophical treatise directs itself to the topic of education and schooldays nostalgia. While a plot of sorts is undraped at the beginning ...
Ray Davies: Rocking My Life Away
Interview by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 29 March 2002
Lost Davies interview illuminates the "underrated" Kinks ...
The Kinks: Lola Vs. Powerman And The Moneygoround (Part One)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
SO, APPARENTLY having forgotten the Byrds' words of caution, you wanna be a rock and roll star, eh? Before you trade in your stereo components ...
Badfinger/The Kinks: Berkeley Community Theatre
Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, April 1972
IT WASN'T YOUR usual Berkeley concert, the type you'd hear, say, Joy of Cooking at. I can't imagine where they came from, but sprinkled liberally ...
Comment by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1983
ASSUMING THAT A healthy percentage of it carried falsified ID, the average age of the audience at this year's Los Angeles Kinks concert might have ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Phonograph Record, December 1976
LONDON Ray Davies' tired eyes incredulously surveyed the scene before him. The view from the top was a familiar one. The sprawling greenery of ...
Kinks: Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, January 1972
POISON RING Records recording artists FANCY opened the show with their joy-evoking rock 'n' roll which is always something that I'm immediately susceptible to. ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, December 1981
"I THINK ROCK music is just as important as painting." Ray Davies – musician, poet, humorist, social critic and leader of one of the world's ...
Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, April 1997
What's happening in Kink land? ...
Kinks Ray & Dave Talk To Chris Welch
Interview by Chris Welch, International Musician & Recording World, December 1981
HEARD THAT NEW BAND THE KINKS?That's how they like to think of themselves. And their fans feel much the same. They have only vague memories ...
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 25 December 1971
SUPERSTARS may come and go but the Kinks keep marching on. They don't change as much as musical styles change around them; not for them ...
The Rise And Decline Of The Kinks
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 October 1979
A CUT PRICE PERSON IN A LOW BUDGET LAND ...
Wet City: Sly and Company Live in London
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at Londons White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
The Kinks: Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kinks Kontroversy and Face To Face
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1984
NOT THAT any of this is actually important, but the kurrent kinks reissue programme abounds with small ironies. ...
Profile by Greg Shaw, Fusion, 19 February 1971
THE ORIGIN of The Kinks is nearly shrouded in antiquity 1964, to be exact. There weren't many 'rock' groups around yet; just the Stones ...
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 3 February 1972
CAN YOU TELL the Kinks apart in the picture on the cover of their new album? No, of course. Except for Ray, they all look ...
Take Me Back to Those Black Hills That I Ain't Never Seen: The Kinks Invent Alternative Kountry
Retrospective and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, September 2001
"MUSWELL HILLBILLIES isn’t just a better country-rock album than anything by Wilco or Son Volt; It’s a better country-rock album than anything by the Byrds." ...
The Kinks: Low Budget (Arista)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 6 October 1979
FOR OLD codgers like me its very difficult to pin down reactions to albums by old codgers like the Kinks. These we have loved. ...
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sunday Telegraph, 23 November 1997
When the news reached him, Ray Davies was sitting on the floor. ...
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 25 May 1972
IN THE VERY first paragraph of his liner notes to The Kink Kronikles, John Mendelssohn emphasizes the Kinks' position as an underdog band. Perhaps even ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ira Robbins, Hall of Fame, 14 November 1989
In a packed concert hall somewhere, a delighted audience sings "L!-O!-L!-A!, Lola!" at full power while the song's author watches silently from the stage. ...
The Kinks: Low Budget (Arista)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 September 1979
The Kinks and the 70s have not enjoyed the most harmonious of relationships. ...
Guide by Fred Dellar, MOJO, March 1997
Every month we navigate the highwater marks, rapids and stagnant ponds of a prolific artists CD output, so you dont have to. We begin with... ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 2000
Their innocent exterior concealed a story of murder, family feuds and skullduggery. But between the fights and disasters, the Kinks cut some of the finest ...
The One-up Kink: Raymond Douglas Davies
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 31 August 1968
RAYMOND DOUGLAS DAVIES, as he now insists on being referred to, is one who excels in the unexpected and the slightly bizarre. He is probably ...
see also Dave Davies
see also Ray Davies
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