Weekend self-care open thread: It's the Kinks!
The Kinks, 1964; Clockwise, from left: Mick Avory, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife and Ray Davies Happy weekend, peoples! Once again, LL, our fearless leader and gracious host, has handed the self care reigns over to yours truly! And for this self care, I present to you one of the more influential and notorious bands to emerge from the 1960s British Invasion, the Kinks! The Kinks are basically the story of the Davies brothers, Ray and Dave . Born three years apart, in the mid 1940s in North London, Ray and Dave were the two youngest, and only, Davies boys in a family of eight siblings. Growing up listening to, and inspired by, the music their parents enjoyed at the music halls and at home when they were hosting weekend parties, the Davies boys, along with Pete Quaife on bass and Mick Avory on drums, formed a band in 1962, and initially called themselves the Ray Davies Quartet. They renamed themselves the Kinks, two years later, at the suggestion of their manager, in order to differenti...
