From the beginning the Kinks’ career was intimately entwined with the BBC. In the year following the August 1964 success of “You Really Got Me” the band were called in to record eight radio sessions, broadcast to the nation and around the world. When the BBC commissioned Ray Davies to write topical tunes for shows like The 11th Hour and Where Was Spring?, we got the first inkling of the Kinks’ future direction, somewhere between Dennis Potter and Lionel Bart.

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Ryland’s points a righteous finger at the “deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar”...

Soundtrack album, from Hazlewood’s mysterious exile in Sweden...

From humble ivory-tickler to global sensation - the singer-songwriter's rise chronicled...

Now available in stereo: LA minstrel’s junkshop hi-fi comes to life...

Shoegazing icons majestic catalogue reissued...

Momentous all-star blues jam in Chicago...

Remastered, if not remade or remodelled: Roxy’s radical motherlode...

Holding on for tomorrow… The definitive British band of the 1990s unveil their definitive boxset (21 discs!)...