The Kinks

**The Kinks** var et britisk rockeband som ble dannet av brødrene Ray og Dave Davies, og Pete Quaife, som alle vokste opp i Muswell Hill nord i London. Bandet regnes som et av de mest innflytelsesrike i 1960-årene. De tre hadde spilt sammen lenge under ulike band-navn, da Mick Avory kom med januar 1964, og gruppen tok navnet The Kinks. Gruppens endelige gjennombrudd kom med sangen «You Really Got Me», som toppet den engelske singelhitlisten senere det året. Opp igjennom 1960-tallet fulgte ytterligere 13 topp-10 singler, noen av de mest kjente er «All Day and All of the Night», «Dedicated Follower of Fashion», «Sunny Afternoon», «Waterloo Sunset», «Dead End Street» og «Lola».

The Kinks (Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife og Mick Avory) ble innlemmet i Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i 1990. 

The Kinks var aktive fra januar 1964 til juni 1996. Medlemmene av gruppen var da de spilte inn sitt hittil siste album *Kinks to the Bone*: Ray Davies, Jim Rodford, Bob Henrit, Ian Gibbons og Dave Davies.

På 1960-tallet ble de fleste av bandets singler hitlåter. Ray Davies regnes som en av rockhistoriens beste låtskrivere. Bandet har også inspirert en rekke band og artister, deriblant (The Who) Ramones, The Jam, Van Halen, Blur, The Kooks, Arctic Monkeys, T. Rex, The Pretenders, Babyshambles, The Lambrettas, David Bowie, Elvis Costello og Paul Weller.

## Bandmedlemmer

**Nåværende medlemmer**

*Ray Davies – sang, gitar, keyboard, munnspill (1963–1997, 2018– )
*Dave Davies – sologitar, sang, keyboard (1963–1996, 2018– )
*Mick Avory – trommer, percussion (1963–1984, 2018– )

**Tidligere medlemmer**

*Pete Quaife – bassgitar, korsang (1963–1966, 1966–1969; død 2010)
*John Dalton – bassgitar, korsang (1966, 1969–1976)
*Andy Pyle – bassgitar (1976–1978)
*Jim Rodford – bassgitar, korsang (1978–1997; død 2018)
*John Gosling – keyboard, piano, korsang (1970–1978)
*Gordon Edwards – keyboard, piano, korsang (1978–1979; død 2003)[1]
*Ian Gibbons – keyboard, piano, korsang (1979–1989, 1993–1997; død 2019)
*Mark Haley – keyboard, piano, korsang (1989–1993)
*Bob Henrit – trommer, percussion (1984–1996)

**Bidragende studiomusikere**

*Rasa Davies – korsang på albumene fra *Kinks* (1964) til *The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society* (1968)
*Bobby Graham – trommer, på albumene *Kinks* (1964) og *Kinda Kinks* (1965; død 2009)
*Nicky Hopkins – keyboard, piano på albumene fra *The Kink Kontroversy* (1965) til *The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society* (1968) (død 1994)
*Clem Cattini – trommer, percussion på *The Kink Kontroversy* (1965) og *Misfits* (1978)

Tidligere medlemmer av The Kinks startet i 1994 bandet The Kast Off Kinks, sammen med Dave Clarke (ex. Noel Redding Band m.m. - må IKKE forveksles med Dave Clark fra Dave Clark Five). The Kast Off Kinks turnerer jevnlig i Storbritannia, og har (i ulike varianter) spilt seks ganger i Norge: Elm Street i Oslo oktober 2010, Fredrikshalds teater i Halden august 2011, John Dee i Oslo juni 2013, Fredrikshalds teater i Halden august 2013, Støperiet i Tønsberg juni 2014 og Brygga Kultursal Halden 25. august 2017. 

Øyvind Hartmann, Kid Jensen og Dag Eriksen (ex. Terje Fjærn, Septimus m.m.) har vært Kast Off Kinks' faste blåserekke siden konserten på Elm Street i Oslo. De har deltatt ved de største anledningene, som Meltdown-festivalen i London 2011, de årlige The Kinks Fan Club Convention i London og The Dutch Kinks Fan Meeting i Nederland, samt på konsertene i Norge.

## Konserter i Norge

*For konserter med [[Ray Davies]] som soloartist, se [[Ray Davies#Konserter i Norge]]*

*Nordstrandhallen – 16. juni 1966
*Landåshallen – 17. juni 1966
* Grue-tunet, Solør - 12. juli 1969
* Bruvollen, Blaker - 12. juli 1969 (uklart hvor lenge, på grunn av omdirigering til Oslo)
* Ingierstrand, Oslo - 12. juli 1969 
*Chateau Neuf – 12. oktober 1978
* Chateau Neuf - 21. oktober 1979
*Rockefeller – 12. juni 1992
* Hellerudsletta - 18. juni 1993
*Rockefeller – 9. juni 1994
*Norwegian Wood – 15. juni 1996 (Kinks' siste offentlige konsert)

## Diskografi
### Singler
### 1960-tallet

*A: "You Really Got Me" / B: "It's All Right" Pye 7N 15673 (1964)
*A: "All Day And All Of The Night" / B: "I Gotta Move" Pye 7N 15714 (1964)
*A1: "All Day And All Of The Night" / A2: "I Gotta Move" / B1: "You Really Got Me" / B2: "It's All Right" Pye NEP 5036 (1964)
*A: "Tired Of Waiting For You" / B: "Come On Now" Pye 7N 15759 (1965)
*A: "Everybody Is Gonna Be Happy" / B: "Who'll Be The Next In Line" Pye 7N 15813 (1965)
*A: "Set Me Free" / B: "I Need You" Pye 7N 15854 (1965)
*A: "See My Friend" / B: "Never Met A Girl Like You Before" Pye 7N 15919 (1965)
*A: "Till The End Of The Day" / B: "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" Pye 7N 15981 (1965)
*A: "Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight" / B: "I Need You" Pye 7N 309 (1966)
*A1: Tired Of Waiting For You / A2: Come On Now / B1: Beautiful Deililah / B2: Too Much Monkey Business Pye NEP 5039 1966
*A: "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" / B: "Sittin' On My Sofa" Pye 7N 17064 (1966)
*A: "Sunny Afternoon" / B: "I’m Not Like Everybody Else" Pye 7N 17125 (1966)
*A: "Dead End Street" / B: "Big Black Smoke" Pye 7N 17222 (1966)
*A: "Mr. Pleasant" / B: "This Is Where I Belong" Pye 7N 17314 (1967)
*A: "Party Line" / B: "Dandy" Pye 7N 317 (1967)
*A: "Waterloo Sunset" / B: "Act Nice And Gentle" Pye 7N 17321 (1967)
*A: "Autumn Almanac" / B: "David Watts" Pye 7N 17405 (1967)
*A: "Wonder Boy" / B: "Pretty Polly" Pye 7N 17468 (1968)
*A: "Day's" / B: "She's Got Everything" Pye 7N 17573 (1968)
*A: "Plastic Man" / B: "King Kong" Pye 7N 17724 (1969)
*A: "Drivin'" / B: "Mindless Child Of Motherhood" Pye 7N 17776 (1969)
*A: "Shangrila" / B: "This Man He Weeps Tonight" Pye 7N 17812 (1969)
*A: "Starstruck" / B: "Picture Book" Pye 7N 319 (1969)
*A: "Victoria" / B: "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina" Pye 7N 320 (1969)

### 1970-tallet
*A: "Lola" / B: "Berkely Mews" Pye 7N 17961 (1970)
*A: "Apeman" / B: "Rats" Pye 7N 45016 (1970)
*A: "God's Children" / B: "Moments" Pye 7N 8001 (1971)
*A: "Supersonic Rocket Ship" / B: "You Don't Know My Name" (1972)
*A: "Celluloid Heroes" (live) / B: "Hot Potatoes" (live) (1972)
*A: "One of the Survivors" / B: "Scrapheap City" (1973)
*A: "Sitting in the Midday Sun" / B: "One Of The Surviviors" (1973)
*A: "Sweet Lady Genevieve" / B: "Sitting In My Hotel" (1973)
*A: "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" / B: "Lola" (1973)
*A: "Money Talks" / B: "Here Comes Flash" (1974)
*A: "Mirror of Love" / B: " He's Evil" (1974)
*A: "Mirror of Love" / B: "He's Evil" (1974)
*A: "Holiday Romance" / B: "Shepherds Of The Nation" (1974)
*A: "Preservation" / B: "Salvation Road" (1974)
*A: "Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)" / B: "Ordinary People" (1975)
*A: ""Ducks on the Wall" / B: "Rush Hour Blues" (1975)
*A: "You Can't Stop the Music" / B: "Have Another Drink" (1975)
*A: "I'm in Disgrace" / B: "The Hard Way" (1976)
*A: "No More Looking Back" / B: "Jack The Idiot Dunce" / "The Hard Way" (1976)
*A: "Sleepwalker" / B: "Full Moon" (1977)
*A: "Juke Box Music" / "Sleepless Night" (UK) / "Life Goes On" (USA) (1977)
*A: "Father Christmas" / "Prince Of The Punks" (1977)
*A: "Come Dancing" / B: "Noise Arista" ARI 301 (1982)
*A: "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" / "Artificial Light" (USA) / "Get Up" (USA 2. utgivelse) (1978)
*A: "Live Life" / "In A Foreign Land" (UK) / "Black Messiah" (USA) (1978)
*A: "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" / "Low Budget" (1979)
*A: "A Gallon of Gas" / "Low Budget" (1979)
*A: "Good Day" / B: "Too Hot" Arista ARI 8396 (1984)
*A: "Moving Pictures" / "In A Space" (1979)
*A: "Pressure" / "National Health" (1979)

### 1980-tallet
*A: "Celluloid Heroes" (live) / B: "Lola" (live) (1980)
*A: "Better Things" / B: "Massive Reductions" (UK) / B: "Yo-yo" (USA) (1981)
*A: "Destroyer" / B: "Back to Front" (1981)
*A: "Come Dancing" / B: "Noise" (1982)
*A: "You Really Got Me" / "Medley (You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night)" b/w "Misty Water" (1983)
*A: "Don't Forget to Dance" / "Bernadette" (1983)
*A: "State of Confusion" / "Labour of Love" (1983)
*A: "Do It Again" / "Guilty" (1984)
*A: "Summer's Gone" / "Going Solo" (1985)
*A: "Living on a Thin Line" / "Sold Me Out" (1985)
*A: "Rock 'n' Roll Cities" / "Sleazy Town" (1986)
*A: "How Are You" / "Killing Time" (UK) / "Working at the Factory" (USA) (1987)
*A: "Lost and Found" / "Killing Time" (1987)
*A: "The Road" / "Art Lover" (1988)
*A: "Down All the Days (Till 1992)" / "You Really Got Me (Live)" (1989)
*A: "How Do I Get Close" / "Down All the Days (Till 1992)" (UK) / "War is Over" (USA) (1989)

### 1990-tallet
*A: "Did Ya" (CD-singel og EP) (1991)
*A: "Only a Dream" / "Somebody Stole My Car" (1993)
*A: ""Hatred (A Duet)" (1993)
*A: "Scattered" (CD singel) (1993)
*A: "Still Searching" (promosingel utgitt i USA) (1993)
*A: "To the Bone" (3 versjoner) (1996)
*A: "To the Bone" (Promo) (1996)
*A: "You Really Got Me" (Live) (1997)

### 2000-tallet
*A: "You Really Got Me" / "It's All Right" (2004)
*A: "Waterloo Sunset" / "Act Nice and Gentle" (2007)

### 2010-tallet
*A: "Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys" (Ray Davies solo) / "Oklahoma U.S.A" (The Kinks) (2017)
*A: "All Day and All of the Night" / "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (2017)
*A: "All Day and All of the Night" / "I Gotta Move" (2017)
*A: "All Day and All of the Night" / "Long Tall Shorty" (2017)
*A: "Got Love If You Want It" / "I Took My Baby Home" (2017)
*A: "Got Love If You Want It" / "Cadillac" (2017)
*A: "Got Love If You Want It" / "Beautiful Delilah" (2017)
*A: "Time Song" / "The Village Green Preservation Society" (2018)
*A: "Days" / "She's Got Everything" (2018)
*A: "Starstruck" / "Picture Book" (2018)
*A: "The Village Green Preservation Society" / "Do You Remember Walter?" (2918)
*A: "Australia" (mono) / "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina" (mono) (2019)
*A: "Drivin'" (mono) / "Mindless Child of Motherhood" (mono) (2019)
*A: "Shangri-La" (mono) / "This Man He Weeps Tonight" (mono) (2019)
*A: "Victoria" (stereo) / "Mr. Churchill Says" (stereo) (2019)
*A: "Arthur" (mono) / "Brainwashed" (mono) (2019)

### 2020-tallet
*A: "Lola" / "Berkerley Mews" (2020)
*A: "Apeman" / "Rats" (2020)

### EP'er
* *Kinksize Session* (1964)
* *The Kinks (All Day and All of the Night)* (1964)
* *The Kinks (Got Love If You Want It)* (1965)
* *Kinksize Hits* (1965)
* *Kwyet Kinks* (1965)
* *Dedicated Kinks* (1966)
* *Mister Pleasant* (1967)
* *The Kinks* (1968)
* *The Kinks (from the soundtrack of the film Percy)* (1971)
* *You Really Got Me* (1971)
* *Waterloo Sunset* (1980)
* *The Kinks Live EP* (1980)
* *State of Confusion* (1984)
* *Did Ya* (1991)
* *Waterloo Sunset '94 EP* (1994)
* *The Days EP* (1996)
* *Till Death Us Do Part* (2016)
* *Ravensize Session (The Pre-Kinks Regent Studio Demos)* (2017)
* *Kinks TV Session* (2018)

### Studioalbum (med plassering på UK Albums Chart)
**Kinks* (1964) (#3)
**Kinda Kinks* (1965) (#3)
**The Kink Kontroversy* (1965) (#9)
**Face to Face* (1966) (#12)
**Something Else by the Kinks* (1967) (#35)
**[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]]* (1968) (#47)
**[[Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)]]* (1969)
**Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One* (1970)
**Percy* (soundtrack) (1971)
**[[Muswell Hillbillies]]* (1971)
**Everybody's in Show-Biz* (1972)
**Preservation Act 1* (1973)
**Preservation Act 2* (1974)
**Soap Opera* (1975)
**Schoolboys in Disgrace* (1976)
**Sleepwalker* (1977)
**Misfits* (1978)
**Low Budget* (1979)
**Give the People What They Want* (1982)
**State of Confusion* (1983)
**Word of Mouth* (1984)
**Think Visual* (1986)
**UK Jive* (1989)
**Phobia* (1993)

### Livealbum
**Live at Kelvin Hall* (1968)
**One for the Road* (1980)
**Live: The Road* (1988)
**To the Bone* (1994)
**BBC Sessions: 1964-1977* (2001)
**Kinks In Koncert 1965* (2016)

### Samlingsalbum
**Kinks-Size* (1965)
**Kinkdom* (1965)
**The Kinks* (1966) (#3)
**The Kinks Greatest Hits!* (1966)
**Well Respected Kinks* (1966) (#5)
**Sunny Afternoon* (1967) (#9)
**The Kinks* (1970)
**Golden Hour* (1971) (#21)
**The Kink Kronikles* (1972)
**The Great Lost Kinks Album* (1973)
**The Kinks' Greatest: Celluloid Heroes* (1976)
**20 Golden Greats* (1978) (#19)
**Second Time Around* (1980)
**Dead End Street – Greatest Hits* (1983) (#96)
**Compleat Collection* (1984)
**Come Dancing with The Kinks: The Best of 1977–1986* (1986)
**The Kinks Are Well Respected Men* (1987)
**Greatest Hits* (1989)
**The Ultimate Collection* (1989) (#35) (#18)
**Fab Forty – the singles collection 1964–1970* (1990)
**Lost & Found 1986–89* (1991)
**The Definitive Collection* (1993)
**A Portrait of the Kinks* (1993)
**The Definitive Collection* (1996) (#51)
**You Really Got Me: The Very Best of The Kinks* (1997) (#42)
**The Singles Collection* (1997) (#96)
**The Singles Collection* (2001) (#81)
**The Ultimate Collection* (2002) (#32)
**Picture Book* (6-CD box set) (2008)
**The Singles Collection* (2011) (#39)
**Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies* (2012) (#14)
**The Essential Kinks* (2014)
**The Anthology 1964–1971 (5-CD box set)* (2014)
**Sunny Afternoon: The Very Best of The Kinks* (2015) (#21)
**The Journey, Pt. 1* (2023) (#41)
**The Journey, Pt. 2* (2023) (#93)

## DVD
*Ray Davies: *Return to Waterloo* 57 min. / *Come Dancing with The Kinks* 36 min. (1992)
**One for the Road* (live-DVD) (2001)
**Special Edition EP* (inkl. «Waterloo Sunset», «Mr. Pleasant», «Plastic Man» og «Muswell Hillbilly»). 34 min. (2002)

## Bibliografi
* Doug Hinman: *The Kinks. All Day and All of the Night. Day-by-day Concerts, Recordings and Broadcasts, 1964–1997*. Beackbeat Books. London 2004. ISBN 0-87930-765-X
* Thomas M. Kitts: *Ray Davies. Not Like Everybody Else*.
* Andy Miler: *The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society*. Thirty Three and a Third Series.
* Jon Savage: *The Kinks. The Official Biography*. Faber and Faber Limited. London 1984. ISBN 0-571-13407-6
* Colin Shearman: *The Kinks. MoDERN iCoNS*. Virgin Publishing Limited. London 1997. ISBN 1-85227-678-9
** Asbjørn Bakke: «70-tallskameratene. Resirkulert lyd». *Aftenposten* nr. 36. Tirsdag 22. januar 2002.
** Nick Hasted: «Ready, Steady Kinks!!!» (s. 46-66). *Uncut* Take 88. Sept. 2004.
** Mark Patress: «Tales of Ordinary Madness» (s. 66-81). *Mojo* #148. Mars 2006.

## Referanser


## Eksterne lenker
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* Dave Davies' offisielle nettsted
* Dave Emlens uoffisielle Kinks-nettsted
* http://whykinks.net/air/air.htm
* «The Kinks: Demon Alcohol,» 23. januar 2008, av Dinky Dawson hos *[[Crawdaddy!]]*