Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kinks’ 1970’s hit Lola chronicles an encounter with a woman in a bar who, it is broadly hinted, is transgender (1978) - George ...

The electronic musician told The Guardian that when the song came up on Spotify he was taken aback by what he dubbed "gross and transphobic" lyrics.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “‘Lola’ by the Kinks came up on a Spotify playlist, and I thought the lyrics were gross and transphobic,” Moby told the paper ...

Over the weekend, Moby participated in The Guardian’s “Honest Playlist” column, which asks musicians and other celebrities to compile a list of songs based on specific prompts. For “The song I can no ...

The Kinks were trend setters in a lot of different ways. Though most notably, they were one of the first major musical acts to outwardly discuss homosexuality and gender non-conformity. Even though ...

Fifty years ago, the Kinks hit the charts with a catchy song about a romantic encounter in a London nightclub between a clueless young rube and an ingenue who “walked like a woman but talked like a ...

There was perhaps no band of the 1960s' British Invasion more British than the Kinks, with their story-songs that pined intensely for the Merry Olde England of the Davies brothers’ lost North London ...

It’s been decades since the Kinks notched a Top 10 hit with “Lola,” but Dave Davies believes the song is more relevant than ever. The 1970 single was controversial upon release because of lyrical ...

It may have hit airwaves 56 years ago, but one of British rock band The Kinks’ biggest hit songs still has the capacity to make headlines. ‘Lola’, penned by frontman Ray Davies, describes an encounter ...