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 are one of the most important and influential rock acts of their era. 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. 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.

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.

## 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)

### Studio albums

|Year|Album Title|Highest UK Chart Position !! Highest US Chart Position||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1964|_Kinks_ (<small>Released in the US as _You Really Got Me_</small>) || align="center" | #3 || align="center" | #29|||
|1965|_Kinks-Size_ (<small>US-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | #13|||
|1965|_Kinda Kinks_|#3|#60|
|1965|_Kinkdom_ (<small>US-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | #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!_ (<small>US-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | #9|||
|1966|_Well Respected Kinks_|#5|-|
|1967|_Sunny Afternoon_ (<small>UK-only album</small>) || align="center" | #9 || align="center" | -|||
|1970|_The Hit Collection_|-|-|
|1971|_Golden Hour of the Kinks_ (<small>UK-only album</small>) || align="center" | #21 || align="center" | -|||
|1972|_The Kink Kronikles_ (<small>US-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | #94|||
|1973|_The Great Lost Kinks Album_|-|#145|
|1974|_Golden Hour of the Kinks Vol. 2_ (<small>UK-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | -|||
|1974|_Lola, Percy and the Apeman Come Face to Face with the Village Green Preservation Society_ || align="center" | - || align="center" | -|||
|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_ (<small>US-only album</small>) || align="center" | - || align="center" | -|||
|1983|_Dead End Street: Kinks Greatest Hits_|#96|-|
|1984|_Kinks Kollectables_|-|-|
|1984|_The Kinks: A Compleat Collection_ 20th Anniversary Edition || align="center" | - || align="center" | #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_ <small>(re-released as a 2-CD set)</small> || align="center" | #1 <small>(Indie Chart)</small> || align="center" | -|||
|2008|_Picture Book_ <small>(6-CD box set)</small>|-|-|

### EPs

- 1964 – _Kinksize Session_
- 1965 – _Kinksize Hits_
- 1965 – _Kwyet Kinks_
- 1966 – _Dedicated Kinks_
- 1968 – _The Kinks_
- 1991 – _Did Ya''

### Singles

|width="120" rowspan="2"|Release Date <small>(UK unless noted)</small>|width="240" rowspan="2"|Title|colspan="11"|Chart positions|||||||||||||||||
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|7 February 1964|"Long Tall Sally"|align="center"|-|align="center"|#129|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|17 April 1964|"You Still Want Me"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|4 August 1964|"You Really Got Me"|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#7|align="center"||align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"|#4|align="center"|#39|align="center"|#23|align="center"||align="center"|#11|
|23 October 1964|"All Day and All of the Night"|align="center"|#2|align="center"|#7|align="center"||align="center"|#18|align="center"||align="center"|#12|align="center"|#22|align="center"|#17|align="center"||align="center"|#18|
|15 January 1965|"Tired of Waiting for You"|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#6|align="center"||align="center"|#24|align="center"||align="center"|#3|align="center"|#27|align="center"|#18|align="center"||align="center"|#6|
|19 March 1965|"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy"|align="center"|#11|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#28|align="center"||align="center"||
|21 May 1965|"Set Me Free"|align="center"|#9|align="center"|#23|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"|#12|align="center"||align="center"||
|30 July 1965|"See My Friends"|align="center"|#10|align="center"|#111|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#26|align="center"||align="center"|#19|
|14 August 1965|"Who'll Be the Next in Line"|align="center"||align="center"|#34|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#25|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|October 1965|"A Well Respected Man"|align="center"||align="center"|#13|align="center"||align="center"|#18|align="center"|#20|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#8|align="center"||align="center"|#3|
|19 November 1965|"Till the End of the Day"|align="center"|#8|align="center"|#50|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#25|align="center"|#34|align="center"||align="center"|#4|align="center"||align="center"|#3|
|25 February 1966|"Dedicated Follower of Fashion"|align="center"|#4|align="center"|#36|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#13|align="center"|#11|align="center"|#11|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#6|
|March 1966 (Sweden)|"Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight?"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#7|
|3 June 1966|"Sunny Afternoon"|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#14|align="center"||align="center"|#12|align="center"|#14|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#7|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#2|align="center"|#2|
|October 1966 (Europe)|"Dandy"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"|#1|align="center"|#3|align="center"||align="center"||
|18 November 1966|"Dead End Street"|align="center"|#5|align="center"|#73|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#11|align="center"|#28|align="center"|#5|align="center"|#5|align="center"|#4|align="center"|#12|
|21 April 1967 (Europe)|"Mister Pleasant"|align="center"||align="center"|#80|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#3|align="center"||align="center"|#12|align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"||
|5 May 1967|"Waterloo Sunset"|align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#6|align="center"|#8|align="center"||align="center"|#7|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#7|align="center"|#14|
|7 July 1967|"Death of a Clown"|align="center"|#3|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#31|align="center"|#5|align="center"||align="center"|#3|align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"||
|13 October 1967|"Autumn Almanac"|align="center"|#3|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#5|align="center"||align="center"|#13|align="center"|#6|align="center"|#17|align="center"||
|24 November 1967|"Susannah's Still Alive"|align="center"|#20|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#18|align="center"||align="center"|#27|align="center"|#10|align="center"||align="center"|#18|
|5 April 1968|"Wonderboy"|align="center"|#36|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#29|align="center"|#6|align="center"||align="center"||
|28 June 1968|"Days"|align="center"|#12|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#17|align="center"||align="center"|#28|align="center"|#7|align="center"|#11|align="center"||
|30 August 1968|"Lincoln County"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#15|align="center"||align="center"||
|8 January 1969 (US)|"Starstruck"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#13|align="center"||align="center"||
|17 January 1969|"Hold My Hand"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|28 March 1969|"Plastic Man"|align="center"|#31|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#17|align="center"||align="center"||
|20 June 1969|"Drivin'"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|30 July 1969 (US)|"The Village Green Preservation Society"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|12 September 1969|"Shangri-La"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#27|align="center"||align="center"||
|12 December 1969|"Victoria"|align="center"|#33|align="center"|#62|align="center"||align="center"|#57|align="center"||align="center"|#33|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|12 June 1970|"Lola"|align="center"|#2|align="center"|#9|align="center"||align="center"|#4|align="center"||align="center"|#2|align="center"|#2|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#1|align="center"|#5|
|20 November 1970|"Apeman"|align="center"|#5|align="center"|#45|align="center"||align="center"|#5|align="center"||align="center"|#19|align="center"|#9|align="center"|#14|align="center"|#5|align="center"||
|April 1971|"God's Children"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#53|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#21|align="center"||
|December 1971 (US)|"20th Century Man"|align="center"||align="center"|#106|align="center"||align="center"|#89|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|5 May 1972|"Supersonic Rocket Ship"|align="center"|#16|align="center"|#111|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#29|align="center"||align="center"||
|24 November 1972|"Celluloid Heroes"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|20 April 1973 (US)|"One Of The Survivors"|align="center"||align="center"|#108|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|29 June 1973|"Sitting In The Midday Sun"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|21 September 1973|"Sweet Lady Genevieve"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|16 November 1973|"Where Have All the Good Times Gone"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|April 1974 (US)|"Money Talks"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|26 July 1974|"Mirror Of Love"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|11 October 1974|"Holiday Romance"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|November 1974 (US)|"Preservation"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|18 April 1975|"Ducks On The Wall"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|April 1975 (US)|"Starmaker"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|23 May 1975|"You Can't Stop The Music"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|January 1976 (US)|"I'm In Disgrace"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|23 January 1976|"No More Looking Back"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|18 March 1977|"Sleepwalker"|align="center"||align="center"|#48|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#54|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|3 June 1977|"Juke Box Music"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|25 November 1977|"Father Christmas"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|19 May 1978|"A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy"|align="center"||align="center"|#30|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#30|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|14 July 1978|"Live Life"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|29 September 1978|"Black Messiah"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|26 January 1979|"(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"|align="center"||align="center"|#41|align="center"||align="center"|#71|align="center"||align="center"|#43|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|28 September 1979|"Moving Pictures"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|August 1979 (US)|"A Gallon Of Gas"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|September 1979 (US)|"Catch Me Now I'm Falling"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|30 November 1979|"Pressure"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|July 1980 (US)|"Lola (Live)"|align="center"||align="center"|#81|align="center"||align="center"|#69|align="center"|#2|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#1|align="center"||align="center"||
|29 October 1980 (US)|"You Really Got Me (Live)"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|19 June 1981|"Better Things"|align="center"|#46|align="center"|#92|align="center"|#12|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|28 September 1981 (US)|"Destroyer"|align="center"||align="center"|#85|align="center"|#3|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#35|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|30 October 1981|"Predictable"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|19 November 1982|"Come Dancing"|align="center"|#12|align="center"|#6|align="center"|#17|align="center"|#36|align="center"|#18|align="center"|#6|align="center"||align="center"|#25|align="center"||align="center"|#18|
|30 September 1983|"Don't Forget to Dance"|align="center"|#58|align="center"|#29|align="center"|#16|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#20|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#38|align="center"||
|10 August 1984|"Good Day"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|March 1985 (US)|"Summer's Gone"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|19 April 1985|"Do It Again"|align="center"||align="center"|#41|align="center"|#4|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#91|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|17 November 1986 (US)|"Rock 'n' Roll Cities"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#37|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|22 December 1986|"How Are You"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|3 April 1987|"Lost and Found"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#37|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|16 May 1988|"The Road"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|25 September 1989|"Down all the Days (Till 1992)"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|19 February 1990|"How Do I Get Close"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|1991|_Did Ya EP_|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|#48|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|12 July 1993|"Scattered"|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|15 November 1993|"Only a Dream"|align="center"|#79|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|January 1997|_The Days EP_|align="center"|#35|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|September 2004|"You Really Got Me"|align="center"|#42|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||
|May 2007|"Waterloo Sunset"|align="center"|#88 <small>(#1 Indie)</small>|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: The Kinks
- **img**: Helmfrid-sofa4 Touched.JPG
- **img capt**: Original line-up in 1965
- **img size**: 200px
- **background**: group_or_band
- **origin**: London, England
- **genre**: Rock music, Rock
pop music, pop
hard rock
punk
psychedelic rock
- **years active**: 1962 - 1996
- **past members**: * 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)