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Two lineups of the Kinks in 1965 (top) and 1970 (bottom). The Kinks are an English rock band from Muswell Hill, London. Formed in January 1963, the group originally comprised the Davies brothers Ray (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Dave (lead guitar, backing vocals), Pete Quaife (bass, backing vocals), and Mick Avory (drums). Quaife left the band for five months from June to November 1966 ...
Official Kinks Fan Club. The current Fan Club team have been active now for more than 20 years and it may surprise some fans that the club has direct links to the original fan club formed in March 1964. The Kinks’ initial success came before the days of global marketing and merchandising and, although the Kinks were working a global market ...
Pete Quaife was The Kinks’ original bassist, playing with the band from their formation in 1963 until 1969. He contributed to some of the band’s most iconic albums, including Kinks (1964), Face to Face (1966), and The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968). Quaife’s bass playing is featured prominently on early hits like ...
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Jun 1, 2024 · But as a result the Liverbirds were a strictly mainland Europe phenomenon, something that baffled some UK contemporaries. “I met Charlie Watts about 10 years ago," McGlory reveals. "We played with the Rolling Stones when we were still in England. And when he found out who I was, he said, ‘You know, Mary, Bill Wyman and I, we always said, we ...
Dec 25, 2014 · Davies was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year. The Kinks' first hit, "You Really Got Me," was released in 1964. In celebration of the band's 50th anniversary, a new five-CD box ...
In 1990, all four members of the original Kinks lineup – Davies, Davies, Quaife, and Avory — were inducted into the prestigious American Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Through the 90s, The Kinks garnered a whole new generation of fans as yet another wave of musicians paid tribute to the band. Blur’s Damon Albarn in particular acknowledged ...
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Jun 12, 2020 · The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned, written off as 60s relics. Their only significant hit since 1967, Days , hardly arrested a calamitous, lift-shaft fall which hit bottom with a humiliating 1968 tour of working-men’s clubs, bizarrely undertaken as they finished their wistful LP classic The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society , which bombed.
