For a song that’s two minutes and change in length, “You Really Got Me” has kept guitarists entertained for decades with stories about its creation and recording. The 1964 Kinks classic rose to the ...
The musicians who were billed on an album weren’t always the ones who physically played the instruments for the record. Session musicians were and are commonplace in the popular music industry, and ...
Dave Davies isn’t quite as active as he used to be after a stroke slowed his pace in 2013. But right now he’s busier than usual, promoting The Journey – Part 3, which documents The Kinks’ late era.
"X-Ray" is both the title of Ray Davies' self-penned "unofficial autobiography" and one of his more recent songs. It's also a good description of the show he played before a standing-room crowd at the ...