The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to stick in our heads for ...

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 ...

While the 1960s possessed flowery, feel-good moments of peace and flamboyance, there were also gritty moments of protest, riot, and rage. Abroad, the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War became a ...

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 ...

“I’ve found that a lot of Kinks music is pretty timeless in the sense that it’s not really been in one particular age or time, but in some ways quite futuristic.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo: ...

You know, it’s not all about you. At least, for many classic rock songwriters from the 1960s, they knew it wasn’t all about them. They knew that collaboration, working together, and helping their ...

The Kinks invented the power chord. Despite what you may have heard, the basic rock ‘n’ roll power chord as we know it was shaped and perfected by Dave Davies on the Kinks’ mid-‘60s material. ‘You ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...