“Slightly androgynous and very sexy”: The frontman Pete Townshend thought could compete with Mick Jagger
One of the best.
The Kinks
The beautiful Kinks song that came to Ray Davies like magic: “Rene had died dancing”
The band are fiery on this track.
The 10 greatest uses of the melodica in popular music
The 1950s educational toy that became a mood-setting, pop music mainstay.
The “perfect” 1967 song Damon Albarn wishes he had written
“I was making a record with David Bowie… But that only lasted 24 hours.”
The attempted murder that cancelled a Kinks concert in 1965: “That could have been the end”
“That could have been the end…”
Dave Davies confirms The Kinks really did once party with John Wayne Gacy: “He was so nice”
The strange meeting happened in 1965.
The 1968 masterpiece that Ray Davies called The Kinks “death wish”
“Maybe it’s an artistic death wish.”