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 ...

Few punk concept albums match the sheer power of the 2004 record American Idiot by Green Day ... And Fall Of The British Empire)’ by The Kinks This concept album hasn’t been brought up ...

The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned ... hitting No 2 in the UK and 9 in the US. The concept album which followed, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneyground. Part One, then dissected ...

Davies didn’t think he’d written anything special. “I thought maybe we could do it on a Kinks album. But Ray liked it and Robert [Wace, The Kinks’ co-manager] really liked it. He thought ...