The Kinks — the British rock group which has generated in a rock music of 1960th distinctive British sounding, which influence can be tracked on an example of set of genres from a punk rock to britpop. One of founders of subculture ìîäîâ. Creative peak the group has reached in second half 60th when there were their conceptual albums.

1963-65

Group sources had brothers of Devisy, Rej and Dejv who have grown in London. At one time the young Sort applied for a role of the vocalist Stewart. The most part of song repertoire of group was written by Rej Devis. In 1963 brothers named the command The Ravens and have tried to conclude the contract on a recording of the album. Like the majority of the British groups of that time, The Ravens played a blues, and rhythm end-blues musicians from the USA were their idols. The first single Devisov, let out under name The Kinks, was a cover-version «Long Tall Sally» Littl Richard.

In August, 1964 the dynamical single «You Really Got Me» debuted in Great Britain on the first place. The tremendous success accompanied it and in the USA. To listeners the furious guitar loss constructed only on two chords was remembered. Song instrumentation made impression of deliberate roughness, raw state. The success of this composition has led to rock music weighting as a whole and has cleared the way for occurrence of such currents, as hard fate, a punk rock and a heavy-metal. Hide review