Where would we be without The Kinks? 

Well, for starters, without a plethora of classic pop songs. And, almost certainly, without a string of British artists who’ve enriched the tapestry of pop music through the decades - from XTC to Blur, Oasis and The Jam. 

We’d also be robbed of that sound; the single crunch of a distorted, amplified power chord first conjured up by Dave Davies on You Really Got Me back in 1964. This profound snippet of ...