Obituaries

Kinks bassist dies

By | Published on Monday 28 June 2010

Kinks co-founder Pete Quaife has died aged 66. Although the exact cause of his death has not been announced, he had been undergoing kidney dialysis since 1998 after suffering renal failure.

Quaife co-founded the classic British sixties group in 1962 with the Davies brothers, Ray and Dave, and drummer Mick Avory. He played bass. He briefly quit the band in 1966 because a car accident meant he was unable to play, though it wasn’t until 1969 that he properly left the outfit, being replaced by John Dalton.

Post-Kinks he set up another band called Mapleoak, before quitting music and pursuing a career as an author and graphic artist. He occasionally returned to the stage with the rest of the Kinks, most recently when they were inducted into the US Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, though when he was approached by Ray Davies about a reunion in 2008 he declined to get involved, instead announcing his intent give up performing in public for good.

Davies paid tribute to his former bandmate while playing at Glastonbury this weekend, telling his audience: “I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him”.



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