The Kinks

Sometimes your best bandmate can become your closest enemy.

Um, I'm not sure that line still works . . .

Former bandmates remember him as "a good friend and great musician."

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.

Like many British rockers of his generation, the Kinks frontman has a big crush on America.

For all the band's ‘60s successes in England, they didn't hit their U.S. chart peak until 1979.

It became a massive worldwide hit, seeing the upper reaches of the European charts and breaking the Top 10 in the U.S.

They had performed just two songs at Cardiff’s Capital Theatre when a fight erupted.

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’