The Kinks

Surge Tracks

• All Day & All Of The Night
• Lola
• Sunny Afternoon
• Waterloo Sunset
• You Really Got Me

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Artist Biography

The Kinks (1963–1996) were a British rock group that came out of the British R&B/Garage Rock scene of the early 1960s.

Formed in 1963 in London, UK, they first gained prominence on the heels of the well-received and highly influential single "You Really Got Me" (1964). The group originally consisted of lead singer/guitarist Ray Davies, his brother lead guitarist Dave Davies, drummer Mick Avory and bassist Peter Quaife. Quaife left (twice) in the late 1960s, and Avory finally left in 1984 due to a long-running dispute with Dave Davies, leaving only the Davies brothers as the core of the original group.

With Ray's splendid songwriting skills and unashamedly English voices, Dave's impressive guitar work and Avory's tight and steady drumming, the band became one of the best and most influential groups of British rock and the "British Invasion" of America, lasting longer than any of their competitors, apart from the Rolling Stones, as they broke up in 1996. Their impressive back catalogue of songs have been covered by Van Halen, The Pretenders, The Black Keys, The Stranglers and Queens of The Stone Age to name but a few.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Arthur (25 May 1998)
Everybody's in Show-Biz (26 June 1990)
Everybody's in Show-Biz - Everybody's a Star (1 September 1972)
Face to Face (28 October 1966)
Give the People What They Want (15 January 1982)
Kinda Kinks (5 March 1965)
Kinkdom (November 1965)
Kinks (2 October 1964)
Kinks-Size (March 1965)
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (27 November 1970)
Low Budget (7 September 1979)
Misfits (19 May 1978)
Muswell Hillbillies (26 November 1971)
Phobia (29 March 1993)
Preservation Act 1 (16 November 1973)
Preservation Act 2 (26 July 1974)
Schoolboys in Disgrace (23 January 1976)
Sleepwalker (25 February 1977)
Soap Opera (16 May 1975)
Something Else by The Kinks (15 September 1967)
State of Confusion (10 June 1983)
The Great Lost Kinks Album (25 January 1973)
The Kink Kontroversy (26 November 1965)
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (25 May 1998)
Think Visual (17 November 1986)
UK Jive (2 October 1989)
Word of Mouth (February 1985)
You Really Got Me (November 1964)
You Really Got Me & Kinda Kinks (13 August 1996)

EPs

Dave Davies Hits (19 April 1968)
Dedicated Kinks (15 July 1966)
Did Ya (1991)
From the Soundtrack of the Film 'Percy' (2 April 1971)
Kinksize Hits (15 January 1965)
Kinksize Session (27 November 1964)
Kwyet Kinks (17 September 1965)
Mister Pleasant (May 1967)
The Kinks (19 April 1968)

Singles

All Day and All of the Night (23 October 1964)
Apeman (20 November 1970)
Autumn Almanac / David Watts (November 1967)
Autumn Almanac / Mister Pleasant (13 October 1967)
A Well Respected Man / Such a Shame (November 1965)
Come Dancing / Destroyer / Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy (3 January 1989)
Days / She's Got Everything (28 June 1968)
Dead End Street / Big Black Smoke (18 November 1966)
Dedicated Follower of Fashion / Sittin' on My Sofa (25 February 1966)
Drivin' / Mindless Child of Motherhood (1969)
Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy / Who'll Be the Next in Line (19 March 1965)
Father Christmas (25 November 1977)
Lola (12 June 1970)
Plastic Man / King Kong (28 March 1969)
See My Friends / Never Met a Girl Like You Before (30 July 1965)
Set Me Free / I Need You (21 May 1965)
Sunny Afternoon (June 1966)
Superman (1979)
Till the End of the Day / Where Have All the Good Times Gone (19 November 1965)
Tired of Waiting for You (15 January 1965)
Waterloo Sunset (5 May 1967)
Wonderboy / Polly (5 April 1968)
You Really Got Me / It's All Right (4 August 1964)

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