The Kinks' Ray Davies selects his favourite American songs, with cuts from the legendary Chuck Berry and his rock-founding peer Bo Diddley.

At one point he dubbed himself “The King And Queen Of Rock'n Roll”, but he didn't always ... Perhaps Elton John was inspired by him? In the early '50s, he was already working on what were ...

Simply put, rock ‘n’ roll as we know starts with the Beatles. Give Elvis and all those other pioneers credit for planting the seeds, but almost every rock artist of the past 50 years owes the ...