The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band. They first became popular in the 1960s. The band had a lot of hits during the 1960s and 70s.The band was formed in 1962 by the brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

The Kinks
Original line-up in 1965
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Rock pop hard rock punk psychedelic rock
Years active	1962 -1996
Past member(s)	vocals, guitar, keyboard Ray Davies (until 1996, founding member) vocals, guitar Dave Davies (until 1996, founding member) bass Jim Rodford (1978-1996) keyboard Ian Gibbons (1979-1988, 1993-1996) drums Bob Henrit (1984-1996) bass Peter Quaife † (until 1969, founding member) drums Mick Avory (until 1984, founding member)

The Kinks are one of the most important and influential rock acts of their era.^[1] Their music was influenced by a wide range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk and country. Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the group released a lot of commercially and critically successful singles and LPs. The group reached a reputation for songs and concept albums which show English culture and lifestyle. Albums such as Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround and Muswell Hillbillies, are considered among the most influential recordings of the period.^[1] The Kinks had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. In the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums.^[1][2]

In 1990 the original four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and in the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005.^[3]

Bandmembers

Ray Davies

Active: Feb 1964–1996

Instruments: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, keyboards

Release contributions: all Kinks releases

Ray Davies was a member of the original band formed in 1964.

Dave Davies

Active: Feb 1964–1996

Instruments: lead guitar, vocals

Release contributions: all Kinks releases

Dave Davies was a member of the original band formed in 1964.

Mick Avory

Active: Feb 1964–1984

Instruments: drums and percussion

Release contributions: all Kinks releases from Kinks (1964) to Word of Mouth (1984)

Mick Avory was a member of the original band formed in 1964.

Pete Quaife

Active: Feb 1964–June 1966, Nov 1966–Mar 1969

Instruments: bass guitar, backup vocals

Release contributions: from Kinks (1964) to The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

Pete Quaife was a member of the original band formed in 1964.

John Dalton

Active: June–Nov 1966, Apr 1969–1976, 1978

Instruments: bass guitar, vocals

Release contributions: all releases from Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) to Misfits

Dalton briefly covered for Quaife in 1966 only to replace him full-time in 1969 after the latter quit.

John Gosling

Active: 1970–1978

Instruments: keyboards, vocals

Release contributions: all releases from Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) to Misfits (1978)

The band expanded into a five piece in 1970.

Andy Pyle

Active: 1976–1978

Instruments: bass guitar, vocals

Release contributions: Sleepwalker (1977) and Misfits (1978)

Andy Pyle replaced John Dalton after the latter quit the band in 1976, only in turn to be replaced by Dalton.

Gordon John Edwards

Active: 1978

Instruments: keyboards, vocals

Release contributions: none

Gordon John Edwards briefly toured with the band during 1978.

Jim Rodford

Active: 1978–1996

Instruments: bass guitar, backup vocals

Release contributions: all releases from Low Budget (1979) to To the Bone (1996)

Jim Rodford stepped in when Dalton finally left the band in 1978

Ian Gibbons

Active: 1979–1989, 1993–1996

Instruments: keyboards, backup vocals

Release contributions: all releases from Give the People What They Want (1981) to To the Bone (1996), apart from Phobia (1993)

Ian Gibbons joined the band after the band recorded Low Budget.

Bob Henrit

Active: 1984–1996

Instruments: drums and percussion

Release contributions: all releases from Think Visual (1986) to To the Bone (1996)

Bob Henrit replaced Mick Avory in 1984 after Avory and Davies quarreled in the studio.

Mark Haley

Active: 1989–1993

Instruments: keyboards, backup vocals

Release contributions: none

After Gibbons left the band Mark Haley toured with them.

Positions in UK charts

• You Really Got Me - No. 1 (1964)
• All Day and All of the Night - No. 2 (1964)
• Tired of Waiting for You - No. 1 (1965)
• Dedicated Follower of Fashion - No. 4 (1966)
• Sunny Afternoon - No. 1 (1966)
• Dead End Street - No. 5 (1966)
• Waterloo Sunset - No. 2 (1967)
• Autumn Almanac - No. 3 (1967)
• Lola - No. 2 (1970)
• Apeman - No. 5 (1970)

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album Title	Highest UK Chart Position	Highest US Chart Position
1964	Kinks (Released in the US as You Really Got Me)	#3	#29
1965	Kinks-Size (US-only album)	-	#13
1965	Kinda Kinks	#3	#60
1965	Kinkdom (US-only album)	-	#47
1965	The Kink Kontroversy	#9	#95
1966	Face to Face	#12	#136
1967	Something Else by The Kinks	#35	#153
1968	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society	-	-
1969	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)	-	#105
1970	Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One	-	#35
1971	Percy (soundtrack)	-	-
1971	Muswell Hillbillies	-	#100
1972	Everybody's in Show-Biz	-	#70
1973	Preservation: Act 1	-	#177
1974	Preservation: Act 2	-	#114
1975	Soap Opera	-	#51
1975	Schoolboys in Disgrace	-	#45
1977	Sleepwalker	-	#21
1978	Misfits	-	#40
1979	Low Budget	-	#11
1981	Give the People What They Want	-	#15
1983	State of Confusion	-	#12
1984	Word of Mouth	-	#57
1986	Think Visual	-	#81
1989	UK Jive	-	#122
1993	Phobia	-	#166

Live and other albums

• 1968 – Live at Kelvin Hall (Released in the US as The Live Kinks in 1967) #162 US
• 1980 – One for the Road #14 US
• 1988 – Live: The Road
• 1994 – To the Bone

Compilation albums

Year	Album Title	Highest UK Chart Position	Highest US Chart Position
1966	Greatest Hits! (US-only album)	-	#9
1966	Well Respected Kinks	#5	-
1967	Sunny Afternoon (UK-only album)	#9	-
1970	The Hit Collection	-	-
1971	Golden Hour of the Kinks (UK-only album)	#21	-
1972	The Kink Kronikles (US-only album)	-	#94
1973	The Great Lost Kinks Album	-	#145
1974	Golden Hour of the Kinks Vol. 2 (UK-only album)	-	-
1974	Lola, Percy and the Apeman Come Face to Face with the Village Green Preservation Society	-	-
1976	The Kinks' Greatest: Celluloid Heroes	-	#105
1978	20 Golden Greats	#19	-
1980	Second Time Around	-	-
1981	The Kinks Collection	-	-
1983	Candy from Mr. Dandy (US-only album)	-	-
1983	Dead End Street: Kinks Greatest Hits	#96	-
1984	Kinks Kollectables	-	-
1984	The Kinks: A Compleat Collection 20th Anniversary Edition	-	#209
1985	The Kinks: Backtrackin' (The Definitive Double Album Collection)	-
1986	Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of 1977-1986	-	-
1988	The Kinks Are Well Respected Men	-	-
1989	25 Years: The Ultimate Collection	#35	-
1992	The Kinks Story Vol. 1: 1964-1966	-	-
1992	The Kinks Story Vol. 2: 1967-1971	-	-
1993	The Definitive Collection: The Kinks Greatest Hits	#18	-
1994	You Really Got Me: The Very Best of The Kinks	-	-
1997	The Singles Collection	#42	-
1998	God Save The Kinks, Vol. 1	-	-
1998	God Save The Kinks, Vol. 2	-	-
1998	God Save The Kinks, Vol. 3	-	-
1999	You Really Got Me: The Best of The Kinks	-	-
2001	BBC Sessions: 1964-1977	-	-
2002	The Ultimate Collection	#32	-
2007	The Ultimate Collection (re-released as a 2-CD set)	#1 (Indie Chart)	-
2008	Picture Book (6-CD box set)	-	-

EPs

• 1964 – Kinksize Session
• 1965 – Kinksize Hits
• 1965 – Kwyet Kinks
• 1966 – Dedicated Kinks
• 1968 – The Kinks
• 1991 – Did Ya

Singles

Release Date (UK unless noted)	Title	Chart positions
		UK Singles Chart	US Billboard Hot 100	US Mainstream Rock	Australia	Belgium	Canada	Germany	Netherlands	New Zealand	Sweden
7 February 1964	"Long Tall Sally"	-[4]	#129[5]
17 April 1964	"You Still Want Me"[6] [7]
4 August 1964	"You Really Got Me"	#1	#7		#2		#4	#39	#23		#11
23 October 1964	"All Day and All of the Night"	#2	#7		#18		#12	#22	#17		#18
15 January 1965	"Tired of Waiting for You"	#1	#6		#24		#3	#27	#18		#6
19 March 1965	"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" [8]	#11							#28
21 May 1965	"Set Me Free"	#9	#23				#2		#12
30 July 1965	"See My Friends"	#10	#111						#26		#19
14 August 1965	"Who'll Be the Next in Line"[8]		#34				#25
October 1965	"A Well Respected Man" [9] [10]		#13		#18	#20			#8		#3
19 November 1965	"Till the End of the Day"	#8	#50			#25	#34		#4		#3
25 February 1966	"Dedicated Follower of Fashion"	#4	#36			#13	#11	#11	#1	#1	#6
March 1966 (Sweden)	"Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight?"[11]										#7
3 June 1966	"Sunny Afternoon"	#1	#14		#12	#14	#1	#7	#1	#2	#2
October 1966 (Europe)	"Dandy"[11]					#2		#1	#3
18 November 1966	"Dead End Street"	#5	#73			#11	#28	#5	#5	#4	#12
21 April 1967 (Europe)	"Mister Pleasant"[9]		#80			#3		#12	#2
5 May 1967	"Waterloo Sunset"	#2			#6	#8		#7	#1	#7	#14
7 July 1967	"Death of a Clown"[12]	#3			#31	#5		#3	#2
13 October 1967	"Autumn Almanac"	#3				#5		#13	#6	#17
24 November 1967	"Susannah's Still Alive"[12]	#20				#18		#27	#10		#18
5 April 1968	"Wonderboy"	#36						#29	#6
28 June 1968	"Days"	#12				#17		#28	#7	#11
30 August 1968	"Lincoln County"[12] [6]								#15
8 January 1969 (US)	"Starstruck"[9]								#13
17 January 1969	"Hold My Hand"[12] [6]
28 March 1969	"Plastic Man"[6]	#31							#17
20 June 1969	"Drivin'"[6]
30 July 1969 (US)	"The Village Green Preservation Society"[13]
12 September 1969	"Shangri-La"[6]								#27
12 December 1969	"Victoria"	#33	#62		#57		#33
12 June 1970	"Lola"	#2	#9		#4		#2	#2	#1	#1	#5
20 November 1970	"Apeman"	#5	#45		#5		#19	#9	#14	#5
April 1971	"God's Children"				#53					#21
December 1971 (US)	"20th Century Man"[13]		#106		#89
5 May 1972	"Supersonic Rocket Ship"	#16	#111						#29
24 November 1972	"Celluloid Heroes"
20 April 1973 (US)	"One Of The Survivors"[13]		#108
29 June 1973	"Sitting In The Midday Sun"
21 September 1973	"Sweet Lady Genevieve"
16 November 1973	"Where Have All the Good Times Gone"[6]
April 1974 (US)	"Money Talks"[13]
26 July 1974	"Mirror Of Love"
11 October 1974	"Holiday Romance"[6]
November 1974 (US)	"Preservation"[13]
18 April 1975	"Ducks On The Wall"[6]
April 1975 (US)	"Starmaker"[13]
23 May 1975	"You Can't Stop The Music"[6]
January 1976 (US)	"I'm In Disgrace"[13]
23 January 1976	"No More Looking Back"[6]
18 March 1977	"Sleepwalker"		#48				#54
3 June 1977	"Juke Box Music"
25 November 1977	"Father Christmas"
19 May 1978	"A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy"		#30				#30
14 July 1978	"Live Life"
29 September 1978	"Black Messiah"[6]
26 January 1979	"(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"		#41		#71		#43
28 September 1979	"Moving Pictures"[6]
August 1979 (US)	"A Gallon Of Gas"[13]
September 1979 (US)	"Catch Me Now I'm Falling"[13]
30 November 1979	"Pressure"[6]
July 1980 (US)	"Lola (Live)"[9]		#81		#69	#2			#1
29 October 1980 (US)	"You Really Got Me (Live)"[13]
19 June 1981	"Better Things"	#46	#92	#12
28 September 1981 (US)	"Destroyer"[13]		#85	#3			#35
30 October 1981	"Predictable"[6]
19 November 1982	"Come Dancing"	#12	#6	#17	#36	#18	#6		#25		#18
30 September 1983	"Don't Forget to Dance"	#58	#29	#16			#20			#38
10 August 1984	"Good Day"[6]
March 1985 (US)	"Summer's Gone"[13]
19 April 1985	"Do It Again"		#41	#4			#91
17 November 1986 (US)	"Rock 'n' Roll Cities"[13]			#37
22 December 1986	"How Are You"
3 April 1987	"Lost and Found"			#37
16 May 1988	"The Road"[6]
25 September 1989	"Down all the Days (Till 1992)"[6]
19 February 1990	"How Do I Get Close"
1991	Did Ya EP			#48
12 July 1993	"Scattered"[6]
15 November 1993	"Only a Dream"[6]	#79
January 1997	The Days EP	#35
September 2004	"You Really Got Me"[14]	#42
May 2007	"Waterloo Sunset"[14]	#88 (#1 Indie)