The Kinks

This album is perhaps rightly separated by "You Really Got Me" and songs that are not "You Really Got Me."

Marking the golden anniversary of this masterpiece with a box set featuring singles, outtakes and alternate versions.

This was the first time Ray and Dave Davies took the stage with Mick Avory and Pete Quaife after ditching their earlier moniker, the Ravens.

Their string of albums in the first half of the decade was steady and, for the most part, forgettable.

For Ray Davies, personal issues came to a head in July 1973, when he announced onstage that he was quitting the Kinks.

Congratulations to the Kinks, who have narrowly defeated the Beatles to become the first band nominated into the 100% fan-voted Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame. It all started with a couple of power chords fed through a modified guitar amp. Actually, it all started with an underwhelming cover of Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ in February 1964. But no one really remembers that, and it doesn’