The Kinks
The Kinks es un gruppo anglese de rock, que esseva formate in Muswell Hill, London in 1964 per le fratres Ray (vocales, guitarra rhythmo) e Dave Davies (guitarra solo). Altere membros includeva Peter Quaife (guitarra basso, usque 1969) e Mick Avory (batteria, usque 1984). Le banda es congniscite pro lor influentia al hard rock, per lor prime singles succedite You Really Got Me e All Day and All of the Night. Intialmente influentiate per rock e rhythm and blues statounitese del annos 1950, illes incorporava influentias del music hall anglese, folk e country. Le parolas de Ray Davies sovente habeva themas anglese e observationes facete super le vitas de personas ordinari.

Lor prime singles esseva notate per lor usage de guitarras distorquite, que influentiarea hard rock, punk e metal. Le banda initialmente ha successo in le Statos Unite, ma lor concertos esseva prohibite illic in 1965 a causa del luctas inter le fratres Davies. Isto ha un influentia major al musica del banda; illes disveloppava characteristicas plus anglese que lor contemporaneos. Illes disveloppava lor sono con le albumes Face to Face (1966) e Something Else (1967) e ha qualque singles succedite inclusive Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset e Autumn Almanac. Lor album subsequente plus succedite esseva Lola versus Powerman (1970), con un de lor cantos plus famose Lola. Altere albumes como Village Green (1968), Arthur (1969) e Muswell Hillbillies (1971) esseva minus succedite, ma deveniva acclamate e popular in annos subsequente.

Post un periodo inculte in le medio del annos 1970, le banda ha un periodo de renascentia commercial con albumes como Misfits, Low Budget e State of Confusion e le canto Come Dancing. Altere artistas etiam interpretava lor cantos. Illes etiam esserea un influentia major super artistas de Britpop in le annos 1990, como Oasis e Blur. Le gruppo se dissolveva in 1997, a causa de tensiones inter le fratres Davies. Illes habeva carieras solo usque 2018, quando illes comenciava un reunion. The Kinks ha vendite plus de 50 milliones discos in tote le mundo. Illes esseva inducite in le Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 e le UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Albumes 
 Kinks (1964)
 Kinda Kinks (1965)
 The Kink Kontroversy (1965)
 Face to Face (1966)
 Something Else by the Kinks (1967)
 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
 Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969)
 Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970)
 Percy (1971)
 Muswell Hillbillies (1971)
 Everybody's in Show-Biz (1972)
 Preservation Act 1 (1973)
 Preservation Act 2 (1974)
 Soap Opera (1975)
 Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975)
 Sleepwalker (1977)
 Misfits (1978)
 Low Budget (1979)
 Give the People What They Want (1981)
 State of Confusion (1983)
 Word of Mouth (1984)
 Think Visual (1986)
 UK Jive (1989)
 Phobia (1993)

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