24 Facts About The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

The Kinks have had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart.

Four The Kinks albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and the band have sold 50 million records worldwide.

In 1990, the original four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005.

The Kinks then formed his own group, Rod Stewart and the Moonrakers, who became a local rival to the Ray Davies Quartet.

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The Kinks pursued interests in subjects such as film, sketching, theatre, and music, including jazz and blues.

Davies has referred to a show the fledgling The Kinks played at Hornsey Town Hall on Valentine's Day 1963 as their first important gig.

The Kinks played on the band's next two studio albums as well, and was involved on a number of their live BBC recordings before joining the Jeff Beck Group in 1968.

The Kinks' next single was a social commentary piece entitled "Dead End Street".

Village Green eventually morphed into their next album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, released in late 1968 in the UK.

The Kinks subsequently collapsed after a drug overdose and was taken to hospital.

Preservation Act 2 was the first album recorded at Konk Studio; from this point forward, virtually every The Kinks studio recording was produced by Ray Davies at Konk.

Edwards was fired from The Kinks for failing to show up to recordings sessions, and the band recorded 1979's Low Budget as a quartet, with Ray Davies handling keyboard duties.

The Kinks produced another, less successful, solo album in 1981, Glamour.

The Kinks followed Think Visual in 1987 with another live album, The Road, which was a mediocre commercial and critical performer.

In 1989, the Kinks released UK Jive, a commercial failure, making only a momentary entry into the album charts at number 122.

The Kinks reverted to a four-piece band for the recording of their first Columbia album, Phobia, in 1993.

The Kinks gave their last public performance in mid-1996, and the group assembled for what would turn out to be their last time together at a party for Dave's 50th birthday.

The Kinks made their first tour of Australia and New Zealand in January 1965 as part of a "package" bill that included Manfred Mann and the Honeycombs.

The Kinks were less commercially successful with these conceptual works, and were dropped by RCA which had signed them in 1971.

The Kinks are regarded as one of the most influential rock acts of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Craig Nicholls, singer and guitarist of The Vines, described the Kinks as "great songwriters, so underrated".

In 2015, it was reported that Julien Temple would direct a biopic of The Kinks titled You Really Got Me, but as of 2021 nothing had come of the project.

The Kinks were active for over three decades between 1964 and 1996, releasing 24 studio and 4 live albums.