CHICAGO — “There was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 ...

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The story and music of The Kinks belong on Broadway. No question. We’ve had “Jersey Boys,” “The Who’s Tommy,” Beatlemanias, The Doors and “Stereophonic.” Ray Davies’ band was a poetic paradox and thus ...

“There was The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks,” says Arnold Engelman, the New York producer who has been pursuing the story of the last band on that list for some 20 years. “And ...

The folks at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are nothing if not considerate. On opening night of “Sunny Afternoon,” the jukebox musical about 1960s Brit-rockers The Kinks, they thoughtfully provided ear ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Kinks were an electrifying group that exploded in the British music invasion of the sixties. "Sunny Afternoon" is a dynamic show about the band now on-stage at the Chicago ...

“Sunny Afternoon,” the jukebox tuner chronicling the rise of 1960s British rock band The Kinks, has its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater under the direction of artistic director ...

According to a comment on X by Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and Little Steven’s Underground Garage, “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks was “the beginning of the modern Hard Rock world as we ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...

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If you’re a big fan of music from the 1960s, you know all too well that there was simply too much good music from that decade to sift through in one lifetime. We all know of the greats, from The ...