The past few years has seen an explosion of interest in transgender issues. Decades before that, The Kinks’ “Lola” discussed its narrator’s attraction to a cross-dresser. The subject matter of ...

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The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned, written off as 60s relics. Their only significant hit since 1967, Days, hardly arrested a calamitous, lift-shaft fall which hit bottom with a ...

The Kinks‘ “Lola” is innately controversial. The British rockers played off a story of a man unknowingly falling in love with a transgender person. To add another layer, they don’t seem to mind too ...

There were many reasons “Lola Verses Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One,” was a benchmark in the Kinks’ 47-year recording history. The British Rock and Roll Hall of Fame troupe’s eight studio ...

The Kinks will mark the 50th anniversary of their music industry-satirizing 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One with a massive reissue that pairs the remastered album with ...

There was perhaps no band of the 1960s' British Invasion more British than the Kinks, with their story-songs that pined intensely for the Merry Olde England of the Davies brothers’ lost North London ...

It’s been decades since the Kinks notched a Top 10 hit with “Lola,” but Dave Davies believes the song is more relevant than ever. The 1970 single was controversial upon release because of lyrical ...

The Kinks have announced a new box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of their album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The collection includes the original 1970 LP, remastered ...

Fifty years ago, the Kinks hit the charts with a catchy song about a romantic encounter in a London nightclub between a clueless young rube and an ingenue who “walked like a woman but talked like a ...