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Dave Davies and Jimmy Page
Dave Davies denounces new Kinks book – and those Jimmy Page guitar rumors are at the center of it

By Phil Weller Published

Page has been wrongly credited with appearances on a handful of early Kinks tracks in a new book – and Davies has called it out

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Dave Davies on stage during 'The Kinks' concert at the Fête de l'Humanité, September 7, 1974
How Dave Davies wrote the savage solo for the Kinks' breakthrough hit

By Janelle Borg Published

Davies debunks false claims that the track featured Jimmy Page and reveals how it all came about

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L-R Mary McGlory, Pamela Birch, Sylvia Saunders and Valerie Gell of Liverpool band The Liverbirds pose for a group portrait outside the Star Club c 1963 in Hamburg, Germany
They were one of the world's first “all-female” rock bands – then they disappeared. But the Rolling Stones and the Beatles never forgot them

By Janelle Borg Published

The ’60s saw the emergence of the Liverbirds, the pioneering Liverpudlian band that toured relentlessly across Europe and beyond, even gaining a residency at the legendary Star-Club in Hamburg – but never quite got the recognition they deserved

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A black-and-white image of Dave Davies of the Kinks performing with a Goldtop Les Paul in 1974
Dave Davies on the Kinks’ argumentative energy, mixed feelings on Van Halen, and Jeff Beck, the “loose cannon”

By Joe Bosso Published

One of the O.G. progenitors of rock 'n' roll sits in with us to discuss the vital spark that lit the fire for a new generation – the sound, the fury, the friction, and the legacy

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Dave Davies shows you the proper way to slash an amp to achieve his Kinks tone

By Phil Weller Published

The guitarist gives a firsthand showing of how to achieve the band’s landmark distortion without the use of pedals

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Dave Davies, drum player of the British rock band The Kinks, on the stage of the Olympia Hall in Paris in 1964. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Dave Davies on how You Really Got Me saved The Kinks, those Jimmy Page rumors – and what he really thought of Van Halen’s cover

By Andrew Daly Published

The guitarist who paved the way for rock and metal distortion breaks down the truths and myths of the groundbreaking 1964 hit

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English rock group The Kinks, from left, Ray Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory and Dave Davies (playing a Vox Phantom XII 12 string guitar) perform on the pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars for ABC Television at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England in 1965. The band members are all wearing matching red jackets and pink shirts.
Though Pete Quaife gets credit for jumpstarting the Kinks bass chair, John Dalton and Jim Rodford pushed the band forward on many of their classic albums

By Chris Jisi Published

From the powerful bass tone on You Really Got Me to 1979’s Low Budget, smart low-end was a key ingredient of the Kinks sound

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A black-and-white image of Ray Davies of the Kinks plays a Fender Malibu backstage with his bandmates in the background
The Kinks are much more than You Really Got Me – and Ray Davies’ inventive acoustic style influenced a generation of players

By Stuart Ryan Published

Listen to the guitar work of the Davies brothers and you’ll gain a real insight into how it was all done back in the 1960s

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“He remembers my guitar sound clearly, end of story”: Dave Davies rejects Eddie Kramer’s Jimmy Page overdub claims and insists that he alone played all guitar parts on You Really Got Me

By Matt Owen Published

The Kinks guitarist has responded to recent quotes concerning the recording of the 1964 hit

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Ray Davies and Jimmy Page
“There’s some contention about that, but that’s how I remember it”: Eddie Kramer says Jimmy Page did play on The Kinks’ You Really Got Me – but it might not have been the version we know today

By Matt Owen Published

The decorated rock producer has recalled the first time he crossed paths with Page, who was busy recording an overdub for the 1964 hit

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