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Sad news: Founding Kinks bassist Pete Quaife died after battling kidney problems for the past decade. He was 66. Quaife was an original member of the Kinks, playing on some of the band’s best and ...

Pete Quaife, 66, the original bassist for the Kinks who played on such early hits as "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You" before leaving the British band ...

Pete Quaife, founding bassist for the ’60s British Invasion quartet the Kinks, died June 23 of kidney failure in Herlev, Denmark. He was 66. Born in the Muswell Hill area of London, Quaife grew up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

The Davies brothers, raised in North London near the Muswell Hill suburb that would inspire one of their albums, formed the Kinks in 1963, eventually adding Avory and the late bassist Pete Quaife. The ...

Thumbing through a recently published glossy rock magazine my attention was grabbed by an article relating to North London favourites The Kinks. The article mentioned the fact that on 1 February 1964 ...

The Kinks invented the power chord. Despite what you may have heard, the basic rock ‘n’ roll power chord as we know it was shaped and perfected by Dave Davies on the Kinks’ mid-‘60s material. ‘You ...

Pete Quaife, a bassist who joined forces with two schoolmates to form the Kinks, one of the leading rock bands of the 1960s British Invasion, died on Wednesday in Herlev, Denmark. He was 66. The cause ...