The Kinks
The Kinks | |
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The Kinks, 1967 |
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General information | |
origin | London , England |
Genre (s) | skirt |
founding | 1964 |
Website | www.thekinks.info |
Founding members | |
Ray Davies | |
Vocals, guitar |
Dave Davies |
Peter Quaife (until 1969; † 2010) | |
Mick Avory (until 1984) | |
Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar, keyboard |
Ray Davies |
Vocals, guitar |
Dave Davies |
Drums |
Bob Henrit (since 1984) |
former members | |
bass |
John Dalton (1966, 1969–1977) |
bass |
Andy Pyle (1977, 1978) |
Keyboard |
John Gosling (1970–1978) |
Keyboard |
Gordon Edwards (1978–1979) |
Keyboard |
Mark Haley (1989-1993) |
bass |
Jim Rodford (1978–1996; † 2018) |
Keyboard |
Ian Gibbons (1979–1988, 1993–1996, † 2019) |
The Kinks ( English kinky , dirty ',' quirky ', freaky' but also a pervert '; therefore, the quirky' or 'The Ausgeflippten' or 'The perverts', also Conjugate of the Kings , so, The kings') are an English music group . Alongside the Beatles , The Who and the Rolling Stones, they are considered one of the most successful British bands of the 1960s ( British Invasion ). Today the kinks are among the forefathers of punk and britpop . Numerous groups have been and are inspired by their music, such as The Jam and The Pretenders .
history
The Kinks were founded in North London at the end of 1963 by the brothers Ray and Dave Davies , after they had not previously been successful under the name "The Ravens" (briefly also: "Robert Wace & The Boll-Weevils"). In January 1964 they got a recording deal with Pye Records and were produced by Shel Talmy . On January 24, 1964, they stood for the first time in the Pye recording studio and recorded four tracks. These were pressed onto two single releases that were stylistically still strongly based on the early Beatles and went unnoticed. On July 12, 1964, their third single , You Really Got Me , was created, with which they achieved their international breakthrough. The piece with the famous guitar riff is sometimes seen as the beginning of hard rock and became a million seller . In particular until 1967 the band had numerous other hit parades in Europe and the USA . Ray Davies made a name for himself as one of the best British songwriters with compositions such as Sunny Afternoon , Dead End Street and Waterloo Sunset alongside John Lennon and Paul McCartney . A performance ban in the United States from 1965 to 1969, caused by a dispute with the American Musicians' Union, prevented decisive success in the USA at that time.
The early LPs the group (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, the kink kontroversy ) were for the time typical disjointed collection of hit singles, cover versions and selbstgeschriebenem filler. In addition to the hits, pieces from this period (1964/1965) are mainly known such as the ballad Stop Your Sobbing, the atmospheric-threatening Nothin 'in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'bout that Girl, the EP classic A Well Respected Man , the weird I'm on an Island and the two B-sides Where Have All the Good Times Gone and I'm Not Like Everybody Else.
With Face to Face , the Kinks discovered the long-playing record as an independent art form in 1966. For the first time, only Davies own compositions could be heard in an atmospherically dense mix. With Dandy , the album also contains the only number one hit by the Kinks in Germany.
The follow-up Something Else by The Kinks from 1967 offered an even more varied collection of songs in terms of the arrangements. However, this transitional album also showed a certain lack of coherence, which was exacerbated by the inconsistent production . Curiously, this problem is much more obvious in the stereo version of the album than in the mono version, which was consequently also used for the remastered release on CD .
In 1968 the concept album The Village Green Preservation Society was released . At the time, the album could not establish itself commercially alongside the simultaneous releases of the Beatles ( White Album ) and the Rolling Stones ( Beggars Banquet ) , as the audience of the tumultuous year 1968 was interested in completely different topics.
Another concept album followed in 1969 with Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) . It told the story of the carpet maker Arthur, who realizes the futility of his life, doubts Winston Churchill and dreams of fleeing to Australia . Despite an interesting concept, far from Tommy - glamor of the Who , the album, musically speaking, was unable to repeat its predecessors.
In 1970 the Kinks released another concept album with Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One , on which Ray Davies dealt critically and cynically with the customs and constraints of the music industry, processing his own experiences. Musically, the band moved away from British subtlety and focused more on American-sounding stadium rock. With Lola and Apeman the album included two single hits.
Lola's lyrics were considered offensive at the time of publication as Ray Davies sang about a sexual relationship between a transvestite and a straight man - supposedly inspired by a personal experience. But not because of that the BBC considered putting the song on the index , but because of suspected surreptitious advertising for Coca-Cola in the opening stanza of the album version of the song: "... where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola ...". For the single version, “Coca-Cola” was replaced by “Cherry-Cola”. In 2007 the piece was used in a commercial for Coca-Cola.
After the soundtrack for the film Percy from 1971 (a comedy with Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland ), the album Muswell Hillbillies was released in the same year , which is considered to be one of the best releases of the band: without a hit single, but self-contained and consistent, the music is very American and in tune with the times, noisy vaudeville rock with country borrowings to melancholy lyrics.
In 1972, Everybody's in Show-Biz followed , which contained the Kinks classic Celluloid Heroes, according to Ray Davies' best ballad. The double album (a studio and a live album) sold poorly on both sides of the Atlantic, only the single Supersonic Rocket Ship , released on May 5, 1972, reached number 16 in the UK charts.
In the years 1973 to 1976 a series of text-heavy concept albums followed (Preservation Act 1/2, Schoolboys in Disgrace, Soap Opera), which are controversial in the assessment of fans and critics and each only achieved comparatively low sales figures. At least Ray Davies got his drug and alcohol problems under control at this time.
It was not until the late 1970s that the Kinks made a commercial comeback, especially in the USA: Ray Davies - inspired by the now successful punk music - remembered the with the albums Sleepwalker (1977), Misfits (1978) and Low Budget (1979) powerful, stringent sound from the early years. The last-mentioned album in particular was a great success in the USA, where it reached number 11 on the album hit parade. A summary of the best pieces from the last three albums can be found on the 1980 album One for the Road , which was recorded live . In the 1980s , Give the People What They Want (1981) with Art Lover, State Of Confusion (1983) with the hit singles Come Dancing (December 1982, last great success in England and the USA) and Don't Forget to Dance followed (October 1983), Word of Mouth (1984) with Do It Again and 1986 Think Visual, the Lost & Found and How Are You? contained.
Drummer Mick Avory retired in 1984. He was always the calm balancing element in the constant arguments in the band and the studio work, but finally got tired of the tension between the Davies brothers. It was essential for his exit, however, that Avory and Dave Davies agreed that they no longer wanted to work together. His successor was Bob Henrit, who was previously - like Jim Rodford - a member of the band Argent.
In 1990 the band was inducted into the " Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ".
The Kinks have not officially dissolved until today, but the last regular studio album Phobia was released in 1993, there were two studio recordings in 1996 on the album To the Bone, which otherwise contains live recordings and new recordings of the band's greatest successes. The band performed one last time under the name "The Kinks" in July 1996 in Oslo at the Norwegian Wood Festival. The Davies brothers subsequently began touring alone or with a band. Ray Davies also appears at fan meetings with the band "Kast Off Kinks", in which several former members of the band such as Mick Avory, John Dalton, John Gosling, Jim Rodford and Bob Henrit play. Frequently recurring rumors, also spread by Ray Davies, that the Kinks would play together again, are considered unlikely due to the problems between the Davies brothers. In 2007 Dave Davies wrote in his Internet forum that he would no longer sit down in the studio with his brother, at most play live, anything else would be an ordeal. Ray Davies, on the other hand, always talks about a new album when he thinks about a reunion. On December 18, 2015, however, the two performed together for the first time since 1996 in London, when Ray was asked to take the stage at a live performance by his brother; both played You Really Got Me together. The Davies brothers share the naming rights for The Kinks .
The bassist Peter Quaife, a founding member of the group, had for more than 10 years because of kidney failure a dialysis treatment to undergo. He died on June 23, 2010. Jim Rodford died on January 20, 2018 at the age of 76 as a result of a fall down stairs.
In June 2018, Ray Davies confirmed work on a new studio album.
The Rolling Stone listed the Kinks ranked 65 of the 100 greatest players of all time .
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE | CH | UK | US | |||
1964 | Kinks |
DE7 (10 weeks) DE |
- |
UK3 (25 weeks) UK |
US29 (26 weeks) US |
Released
in the United States under the title You Really Got Me
|
1965 | Kinda Kinks |
DE12 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
UK3 (15 weeks) UK |
US60 (9 weeks) US |
|
The kink controversy |
DE8 (4 weeks) DE |
- |
UK9 (12 weeks) UK |
US95 (12 weeks) US |
||
1966 | Face to face |
DE12 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
UK12 (11 weeks) UK |
US135 (3 weeks) US |
|
1967 | Something Else by The Kinks |
DE31 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
US153 (2 weeks) US |
|
1968 | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society |
DE84 (1 week) DE |
- |
UK47
gold
(1 week)UK |
- | |
1969 | Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) |
DE68 (1 week) DE |
CH100 (1 week) CH |
- |
US105 (20 weeks) US |
|
1970 | Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One | - | - | - |
US35 (12 weeks) US |
|
1971 | Muswell Hillbillies | - | - | - |
US100 (14 weeks) US |
|
1972 | Everybody's in show biz | - | - | - |
US70 (14 weeks) US |
|
1973 | Preservation Act 1 | - | - | - |
US177 (6 weeks) US |
|
1974 | Preservation Act 2 | - | - | - |
US114 (11 weeks) US |
|
1975 | Soap Opera | - | - | - |
US51 (13 weeks) US |
|
1976 | Schoolboys in Disgrace | - | - | - |
US45 (14 weeks) US |
|
1977 | Sleepwalker | - | - | - |
US21 (16 weeks) US |
|
1978 | Misfits | - | - | - |
US40 (21 weeks) US |
|
1979 | Low budget | - | - | - |
US11
gold
(18 weeks)US |
|
1981 | Give the People What They Want | - | - | - |
US15th
gold
(36 weeks)US |
|
1983 | State of Confusion |
DE55 (7 weeks) DE |
- | - |
US12 (25 weeks) US |
|
1984 | Word of Mouth | - | - | - |
US57 (20 weeks) US |
|
1986 | Think visual | - | - | - |
US81 (16 weeks) US |
|
1989 | UK Jive | - | - | - |
US122 (8 weeks) US |
|
1993 | Phobia |
DE92 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
US166 (1 week) US |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More studio albums
- 1971: Percy - Original Soundtrack
Live albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | UK | US | |||
1980 | One for the Road (Live) |
DE49 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
US14th
gold
(33 weeks)US |
|
1986 | Come dancing with the kinks | - | - |
US159 (4 weeks) US |
|
1988 | The Road (Live) | - | - |
US110 (7 weeks) US |
More live albums
- 1967: Live at Kelvin Hall
- 1994: To the Bone (British version)
- 1996: To the Bone (US version)
Compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | CH | UK | US | |||
1965 | Kinks in Germany |
DE22 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | |
Kinks size | DEnvDE | - | UKnvUK |
US13 (29 weeks) US |
||
Kinks Kinkdom | DEnvDE | - | UKnvUK |
US47 (17 weeks) US |
||
1966 | Well respected kinks | - | - |
UK5 (31 weeks) UK |
- | |
1967 | The Live Kinks | - | - | - |
US162 (4 weeks) US |
|
Sunny afternoon | - | - |
UK9 (11 weeks) UK |
- | ||
1971 | Golden Hour of the Kinks | - | - |
UK21 (4 weeks) UK |
- | |
1972 | The Kink Kronikles | - | - | - |
US94 (13 weeks) US |
|
1973 | The Great Lost Kinks Album | - | - | - |
US145 (5 weeks) US |
|
1976 | Kinks' Greatest - Celluloid Heroes | - | - | - |
US144 (5 weeks) US |
|
1978 | 20 golden greats | - | - |
UK19 (6 weeks) UK |
- | |
1979 | Your 20 greatest hits |
DE4 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - | - |
Their Greatest Hits
|
1980 | Second time around | - | - | - |
US177 (4 weeks) US |
|
1983 | Dead End Street - Greatest Hits | - | - |
UK96 (1 week) UK |
- | |
1989 | 25 Years - The Ultimate Collection | - | - |
UK35
platinum
(7 weeks)UK |
- | |
1993 | The Definitive Collection | - | - |
UK18th
gold
(7 weeks)UK |
- | |
1997 | The very best of | - | - |
UK42 (4 weeks) UK |
- | |
The Singles Collection - Waterloo Sunset | - | - |
UK96
silver
(2 weeks)UK |
- | ||
2001 | Singles Collection | - | - |
UK81
gold
(1 week)UK |
- | |
2002 | The Ultimate Collection | - |
CH71 (1 week) CH |
UK32
gold
(29 weeks)UK |
- | |
2012 | The Kinks at the BBC |
DE57 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | |
Waterloo Sunset - The Best Of | - | - |
UK14th
silver
(4 weeks)UK |
- | ||
2015 | Sunny Afternoon - The Very Best Of | - | - |
UK21 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More compilations
- 1968: The Kinks Greatest Hits (US:gold)
- 1994: The Best Of (UK:gold)
- 1996: Greatest Hits
- 1999: You Really Got Me - The Best Of (UK:platinum)
- 2001: BBC Sessions
- 2008: Picture Book 6 CD Box
- 2014: The Essential Kinks
Singles and EPs
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
1964 |
Long Tall Sally |
- | - | - | UK[42]UK | - |
In Great Britain, the title did not make it into the hit parade of Record Retailer magazine, which is now the official hit parade, but was listed at number 42 on the hit parade of Melody Maker magazine for one week.
|
You Really Got Me Kinks |
DE39 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK1
gold
(12 weeks)UK |
US7 (15 weeks) US |
||
All day and all of the night |
DE22 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK2
silver
(14 weeks)UK |
US7 (12 weeks) US |
||
1965 | Tired of Waiting for You Kinda Kinks |
DE13 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK1 (10 weeks) UK |
US6 (11 weeks) US |
|
Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy / Who'll Be the Next in Line |
DE29 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK17 (8 weeks) UK |
US34 (7 weeks) US |
The A- and B-side titles of the single in Europe were released a few months later in North America with a reversed A- and B-side.
|
|
Set Me Free |
DE32 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK9 (11 weeks) UK |
US23 (8 weeks) US |
||
See My Friends |
DE36 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK10 (9 weeks) UK |
- | ||
Till the End of the Day The Kink Controversy |
DE19 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK8 (12 weeks) UK |
US50 (8 weeks) US |
||
A well respected man |
- | - | - | - |
US13 (14 weeks) US |
||
1966 | Dedicated Follower of Fashion |
DE11 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK4 (11 weeks) UK |
US36 (6 weeks) US |
|
Sunny Afternoon Face to Face |
DE7 (7 weeks) DE |
AT5 (8 weeks) AT |
- |
UK1
silver
(13 weeks)UK |
US14 (11 weeks) US |
||
Dandy face to face |
DE1 (10 weeks) DE |
AT6 (16 weeks) AT |
- | UKna 1 2UK | USna 1 2US | ||
Dead End Street |
DE5 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK5 (11 weeks) UK |
US73 (4 weeks) US |
||
1967 |
Waterloo Sunset Something Else by The Kinks |
DE7 (6 weeks) DE |
AT10 (8 weeks) AT |
- |
UK2
silver
(11 weeks)UK |
- | |
Death of a Clown Something Else by The Kinks |
DE3 (7 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK3 (10 weeks) UK |
- |
Dave Davies featuring the Kinks
|
|
Mr. Pleasant |
DE12 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - | UKna 1UK |
US80 (4 weeks) US |
||
Autumn Almanac |
DE13 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK3 (11 weeks) UK |
- | ||
1968 | Susannah's Still Alive |
DE27 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK20 (7 weeks) UK |
- |
Dave Davies featuring the Kinks
|
Wonder Boy |
DE29 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK36 (5 weeks) UK |
- | ||
Days |
DE28 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK12 (10 weeks) UK |
- | ||
1969 | Plastic Man |
DE34 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK31 (4 weeks) UK |
USna 2US | |
Victoria Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) |
- | - | - |
UK33 (4 weeks) UK |
US62 (9 weeks) US |
||
1970 |
Lola Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One |
DE2 (12 weeks) DE |
AT2 (16 weeks) AT |
CH4 (13 weeks) CH |
UK2
silver
(14 weeks)UK |
US9 (20 weeks) US |
|
Apeman Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One |
DE8 (17 weeks) DE |
AT2 (12 weeks) AT |
CH7 (9 weeks) CH |
UK5 (14 weeks) UK |
US45 (9 weeks) US |
||
1971 | 20th Century Man Muswell Hillbillies |
- | - | - | UKna 1UK | - | |
1972 | Supersonic Rocket Ship Everybody’s in Show-Biz |
- | - | - |
UK16 (8 weeks) UK |
- | |
1973 | One of the Survivors Preservation Act 1 |
- | - | - | UKna 1UK | - | |
1977 | Sleepwalker Sleepwalker |
- | - | - | - |
US48 (7 weeks) US |
|
1978 | A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Misfits |
- | - | - | - |
US30 (11 weeks) US |
|
1979 | (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Low Budget |
- | - | - | - |
US41 (12 weeks) US |
|
1980 | Lola (Live) One for the Road |
- | - | - | - |
US81 (20 weeks) US |
|
1981 | Destroyer Give the People What They Want |
- | - | - | - |
US85 (4 weeks) US |
|
Better Things Give the People What They Want |
- | - | - |
UK46 (5 weeks) UK |
US92 (8 weeks) US |
||
1982 | Come Dancing State of Confusion |
- | - |
CH13 (2 weeks) CH |
UK12 (10 weeks) UK |
US6 (17 weeks) US |
|
1983 | Don't Forget to Dance State of Confusion |
- |
AT11 (6 weeks) AT |
- |
UK58 (5 weeks) UK |
US29 (10 weeks) US |
|
1984 | Do It Again Word of Mouth |
- | - | - | - |
US41 (10 weeks) US |
|
1986 | You Really Got Me (1983) |
- | - | - |
UK47 (5 weeks) UK |
- | |
How Are You Think Visual |
- | - | - |
UK86 (2 weeks) UK |
- | ||
1997 | The Days |
- | - | - |
UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
- | |
2004 | You Really Got Me |
- | - | - |
UK42 (2 weeks) UK |
- | |
2007 | Waterloo Sunset |
- | - | - |
UK47 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More singles
- 1964: You Still Want Me 2
- 1966: Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight 1 2
- 1968: Lincoln County 2 3
- 1969: Starstruck 1
- 1969: Hold My Hand 2 3
- 1969: Drivin ' 2
- 1969: The Village Green Preservation Society 1
- 1969: Shangri-La 2
- 1971: God's Children
- 1972: Celluloid Heroes
- 1973: Sitting in the Midday Sun
- 1973: Sweet Lady Genevieve
- 1973: Where Have All the Good Times Gone 2
- 1974: Money Talks 1
- 1974: Mirror of Love
- 1974: Preservation 1
- 1974: Holiday Romance 2
- 1975: Starmaker 1
- 1975: Ducks on the Wall 2
- 1975: You Can't Stop the Music 2
- 1976: I'm in Disgrace 1
- 1976: No More Looking Back 2
- 1977: Juke Box Music
- 1977: Father Christmas
- 1978: Live Life
- 1978: Black Messiah 2
- 1979: Moving Pictures 2
- 1979: Pressure 2
- 1979: A Gallon of Gas 1
- 1979: Catch Me Now I'm Falling 1
- 1980: You Really Got Me (Live) 1
- 1981: Predictable
- 1984: Good Day 2
- 1985: Summer's Gone 1
- 1985: Living on a Thin Line
- 1986: Rock 'n' Roll Cities 1
- 1987: Working at the Factory
- 1987: Lost and Found
- 1988: The Road
- 1989: How Do I Get Close
- 1991: Did Ya [EP]
- 1993: Hatred (A Duet)
Video albums
- 2004: Return to Waterloo / Come Dancing with the Kinks
- 2006: In performance plus bonus book
- 2006: The Live Broadcoasts
- 2007: Videobiography plus bonus book
- 2007: Live!
Movie
- The Kinks, the bad guys of rock and roll . Documentation , 50 min., FR 2020, director: Christophe Conte.
literature
- John Mendelssohn: The Kinks Kronikles . Quill, New York / NY 1984 ISBN 0-688-02983-3 .
- Johnny Rogan: The Kinks. A mental institution . Proteus Publishing Company, New York / NY 1984 ISBN 0-86276-064-X .
- Jon Savage: The Kinks - The Official Biography . Faber and Faber Limited, London 1984 ISBN 0-571-13379-7 .
- Jacques Vincent / Didier Delinotte: The Kinks . Librairies Parallèles, Paris 1993.
- Rebecca Bailey (Ed.): The Kinks. Reflections On Thirty Years Of Music . Trillium Publications, Kentucky 1994 ISBN 0-9640755-1-2 .
- Neville Martin & Jeffrey Hudson: The Kinks - Well Respected Men . Castle Communications, Chessington / Surrey 1996 ISBN 1-86074-135-5 .
- Thomas M. Kitts and Michael J. Kraus (Eds.): Living On A Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders With The Kinks . Illustrations by Pete Quaife. Rock 'n' Roll Research Press, Rumford / Rhode Island 2002 ISBN 0-9641005-4-1 .
- Andy Miller: The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society . Continuum International Publishing Group, New York / London 2003 ISBN 0-8264-1498-2 .
- Peter Krause: The Kinks. A rock 'n' roll fantasy . Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-86601-432-5 .
Web links
- Official website
- Dave Emlen's Unofficial Kinks website
- Dave Davies website
- The Kinks at laut.de
- Reviews of all studio albums on Tante Pop
- Archive of kinks.de (out of date since August 2008)
- Karl-Heinz Hense: Fifty years of rock music from London
- Kinks: Interview With Mick Avory. In: www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk. March 20, 2011, accessed May 21, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Böckem, Jörg: Ray Davies: I have a dream . In: The time . May 17, 2006.
- ^ Lothar Trampert: Ray Davies & The Kinks. In: Guitar & Bass 10/1998. August 14, 1998, archived from the original on September 11, 2009 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ www.rockhall.com ; Band Biography, accessed December 4, 1980
- ↑ a b rollingstone.com ; Band biography, accessed September 23, 2014.
- ↑ Savage, John: The Kinks - The Official Biography , 1984, p. 17.
- ↑ Wace, in the early years one of several managers of the Kinks, had temporarily tried his hand at being a lead singer; see. Savage business card, as above, p. 16, and: Tales of Ordinary Madness in: Mojo , March 2006, p. 72.
- ↑ John Savage, supra, p. 21.
- ↑ a b www.allmusic.com ; Band Biography, accessed December 4, 1980.
- ^ Song Review at www.allmusic.com, accessed December 4, 2008 .
- ^ Joseph Murrells, Million Selling Records , 1985, pp. 193 f.
- ↑ www.guardian.co.uk , accessed December 4, 2008.
- ^ Rollingstone.com ( Memento December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 27, 2014.
- ↑ The Mick Avory InTerview Part 1: “My First Impression Was That They Were Gay!” In: Kast Off Kinks Website 2009. Accessed May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ The Mick Avory Interview Part 2: “Not many drummers from West Molesey have done that!” In: Kast Off Kinks website 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Kinks in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- ↑ www.norwegianwood.no .
- ^ Dave Davies Message Board , accessed October 27, 2009.
- ↑ pastemagazine.com , accessed on 27 October of 2009.
- ↑ Pete Quaife, original bassist for the Kinks , The Washington Post, June 29, 2010.
- ↑ Jim Rodford, Kinks and Argent Bassist, Dead at 76 , accessed January 22, 2018.
- ↑ The Kinks celebrate their reunion and release a new album. June 26, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2020 (German).
- ↑ 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
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↑ a b c d chart sources:
- The Kinks in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
- Dave Davies feat. The Kinks in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
- The Kinks in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
- The Kinks in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
- The Kinks in the Official UK Charts (English)
- Dave Davies featuring The Kinks in the Official UK Charts (English)
- The Kinks made the US charts on Billboard
- ↑ Doug Hinman: The Kinks. All day and all of the night. Backbeat Books, London, 2004, ISBN 0-87930-765-X , pp. 19-20.
- ↑ The Kinks, the bad guys of rock and roll. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .