The Complete Guide to the Music of the 'Kinks

by Johnny Rogan

Johnny Rogan traces the 20-year history of a British beat group that became an institution. Along with their great contemporaries The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. The Kinks dominated rock music during the 60's with a string of classic hit singles and eventually established themselves as a successful and highly influential force in the 70's and 80's.

Genres: Music

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Carol Storm · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is loooong out of print and I doubt you could ever find it, but it is the BEST book about the Kinks and one of the best rock and roll books ever written.

Rogan is an English music writer, and that means he writes without all the noisy, blustery, self-promoting rhetoric you get from American rock writers like Dave Marsh or Griel Marcus. He isn't trying to liberate the proletariat or put himself in the literary pantheon with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain. He's just telling the story of the Kinks, quietly, with insight and humor.