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Mick Avory. Michael Charles Avory (born 15 February 1944) is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the English rock band the Kinks. He joined them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remained with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies.
Feb 10, 2016 · Reliving The Kinks’ golden years – the Mick Avory interview. Out There: The Kast Off Kinks. From the left – Mick Avory, Ian Gibbons, John Dalton, Dave Clarke. He may have been outside The Kinks for three decades now, but Mick Avory was there when it mattered, overseeing a happening 20-year period with this most quintessential English outfit.
Tensions within the group characterised much of the tour, culminating in an onstage fight in which the drummer Mick Avory struck the lead guitarist Dave Davies in the head with a hi-hat stand. Dave was hospitalised with a head injury, Avory retreated into hiding to avoid police charges and the Walker Brothers performed in the Kinks' place for ...
Oct 15, 2023 · The tension escalated when Dave kicked Avory’s drum set across the stage, a surprising act that initially amused the audience, as they believed it to be part of the show’s arrangement. After a brief pause on his knees, Avory emerged from the ruined set, seized his hi-hat stand, and struck Dave on the back of the head with the cymbal end.
Apr 24, 2023 · Americans lapped it up in droves, as did their over-the-pond counterparts. And Mick Avory was the backbeat of it all. Along with Pete Quaife on bass, Avory helped propel The Kinks to superstardom with megahits “You Really Got Me,” “All Day & All Of The Night,” “Lola,” “Sunny Afternoon” and “Waterloo Sunset.” Hell, they even ...
Mick Avory. Mick Avory, born 15 February 1944, in East Molesey, Surrey, drummed with The Kinks from January 1964 to 1984, making him the longest-serving member of the band, beside the Davies brothers. Mick started drumming when he was 13 and was influenced mostly by jazz drummers like Buddy Rich, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones and Joe Morello.
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in 1965, Avory hit Davies with his drum pedal (not the cymbal stand, which, according to later interviews with Avory "would have decapitated him"), in reprisal for Davies kicking over his drum kit as revenge for a drunken fight the previous night in a Taunton hotel, apparently won by Mick.
