Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics as The Who’s “My Generation” and The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” helped oversee hits by ...

Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who‘s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during Wednesday at ...

The Kinks were heading into uncharted territory in the Sixties. The London rockers blew up in the early days of the British invasion, topping the charts with violently rowdy bangers like “You Really ...

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 ...

Back in the summer of 1966, a British music magazine played a decidedly cruel joke on Kinks leader Ray Davies, asking him to review "Revolver," the latest album by his vastly more successful ...

Nobody was better at the detailed character sketch than Ray Davies of The Kinks during that band’s late ‘60s, early ‘70s heyday. Davies often delivered these snapshots as part of the concept albums ...

Reflecting on the cross-generational appeal of his band in an interview in the mid-90s, Ray Davies said The Kinks were immune to the backlash that some of their 60s peers suffered when punk arrived.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born ...