The Kinks (musician)

...changing and British pop music was starting to come into its own. The Beatles had taken America, while Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Yardbirds and Dave Clark Five were bending traditional American rock n’ roll in an entirely different direction. Justin responded...

...David Bowie -- he was a huge influence. There are a lot of aspects to my music. Bebop is my foundation and I am basically a jazz musician, but I don’t like to think of it in narrow terms. So, yeah, there are different aspects to my music that are influenced...

...new tracks may find their way on to the upcoming tour set list. "We could delve into the new songs live and work out some kinks on the road. There are loads we've never played live before, so it's a prime opportunity to flex the new songs a little bit and...

...at a forest gig "in the middle of a Wairarapa nowhere" several years ago is still fresh in her memory. She and her musician partner Parks, aka Brent Park, had trekked over the hill together to play a two-day South Wairarapa festival concert. "I don't even...

They blasted out of nowhere with a brilliantly surreal sound that influenced a generation future stars, from Kurt Cobain to Thom Yorke. Then they split bitterly, with promises to never reunite. So how did the greatest band of the late '80s become the hot

...and saxophone. Also, the original article to which the correction referred described the Giuffre track that inspired the Kinks' You Really Got Me as a song; it was an instrumental track. • An appreciation of the writer and illustrator Judith Kerr misspelled...

...sharing the bill with Gene Pitney, The Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, Neil Diamond, America, Tom Jones, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, and The Who. Thousands of teenage girls waited at concerts to rush the stage and rip clothing for souvenirs. Overnight,...

..."But by then, they were starting to rise. They weren't just a blues cover band anymore. It was the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and the next thing I remember, the Small Faces. And here we go. A whole year goes by, and I'm on TV. I mean, it happened...

...Lonsborough was an electrical engineer, amateur musician and father of two when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in November 2001. The devastating condition destroys the nerves that power the muscles and there is no cure. Mark, from Poynton, was...