Read our review of *Sunny Afternoon*, written by Joe Penhall, now in performances at Alexandra Palace to 31 January. Read ...

CHICAGO — “There was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as ...

“Sunny Afternoon,” the jukebox tuner chronicling the rise of 1960s British rock band The Kinks, has its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater under the direction of artistic director ...

They were the founding fathers of riff rock. Later, they’d become obsessed with album-long artistic statements. But in 1967, The Kinks delivered an LP with an identity all its own, one that gained ...

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Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as Rod Stewart and Charlie Watts before settling into a quartet called the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Sunny Afternoon," based on the music of the 1960s rock group the Kinks, blew away American competitors to win best new musical at the Olivier Awards on Sunday, while a revival of ...

The songs Ray Davies wrote for The Kinks changed the course of music history. Experts cite “You Really Got Me,” for example, with its violent power chords, as the first true hard-rock tune and the ...

The Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon has been transferred to the West End. The play is based on an original story by Ray Davies and features his music and lyrics, with a book by Joe Penhall. Following ...

* How's this for a story that sounds like it was made up using a Mad Libs: Comedian/actor/director Bobcat Goldthwait is making a musical film adaptation of The Kinks' 1976 release, Schoolboys in ...