Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (born June 21, 1944 in Fortis Green, London) is an influential English rock musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most influential, prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television.

David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947, in Fortis Green, London, England) is a singer and the lead guitarist with the English rock band The Kinks, which he founded with Pete Quaife in 1963. His brother Ray, who became the best-known member of the band, joined soon after. The quartet was formed when drummer Mick Avory joined. Davies had a turbulent relationship with Avory, and is a reason behind latter's departure from the band in the mid 1980s, …

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Michael Charles Avory (born February 15, 1944 in East Molesey, Surrey, England) is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for The Kinks from their formation in 1964 to 1984.

David Leonard Watts (born 26 August 1951, St Helens, Merseyside) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for St Helens North. He had previously been leader of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council. He is a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner of HM Household Not to be confused with the fictional character sung about by The Kinks (and covered by The Jam) in "David Watts".

Brendan Benson is a Michigan born musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and drums. He has released three solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs. Benson's major musical influences include The Cars, David Bowie, The Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, Paul McCartney, and Todd Rundgren.

Greg Kihn (born July 10, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a U.S. pop musician. He is of Polish descent. He is the front man for the Greg Kihn Band, who are perhaps best known for their hit single "Jeopardy". Other popular songs include "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" and "Lucky." "Jeopardy" later served as the basis for a parody ("I Lost on Jeopardy") by Weird Al Yankovic. Beginning in 1976, The Greg Kihn Band put out several albums on the Beserkley Records label.

An American who became the first independent record producer in England, Shel Talmy has been praised for his innovative, influential recording techniques, his abilities as an arranger, his versatility, and his extensive credits. His career has spanned more than 40 years, from the early 1960s to the present.

John Dalton (born 21 May 1943, Edgware, Middlesex) is probably best known as The Kinks regular bass guitarist from 1969 to 1976, replacing original member Pete Quaife.

Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife, (born on December 31 1943), is an English musician, artist and writer. He was a founding member and the original bass guitarist for The Kinks, from 1963 until 1969.

John Gosling (born 6 February 1948, in Paignton, South Devon), is a classically trained organist and pianist. Gosling joined The Kinks in 1970 in time for their first United States tour since their notorious ban. He later formed a production company with Dave Davies at Konk Records, for which they produced three albums. Gosling left with replacement bassist Andy Pyle in 1978 to form his own band Network, who recorded an (unreleased) album for Phonogram.

Jim Rodford (born James Rodford, 7 July, 1941, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) is a musician who played with The Kinks, and was a founding member of Argent. In the late 1950s, and early 1960s he was a member of The Bluetones, the biggest band in St Albans at the time. Later, although he did not become a band member at this stage, Rodford was instrumental in helping his younger cousin Rod Argent form The Zombies in 1964.

Ian Gibbons is a keyboardist working with many bands, most notably The Kinks. He was in the band from 1979 until 1989, and again from 1992 until 1996. The band have been inactive since then.

Bruce Foxton (born 1 September 1955 in Woking, Surrey) is an English rock and roll musician who is best remembered as the bass player in punk/new wave bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers. In The Jam, he and drummer Rick Buckler played a subordinate role behind singer, guitarist, and songwriter Paul Weller. Foxton did, however, take lead vocals on a few tracks, most notably the singles "David Watts" (a cover of a Kinks track) and "News of the World", …

Robert "Bob" Henrit (born 2 May 1944 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire) is an English drummer who has been a member of several musical groups, including Buster Meikle & The DayBreakers, The Roulettes, Argent, and The Kinks.

Matt Johnson (born 15 August 1961, in London, England) is the founder and only constant member of the multimedia band, The The. Matt Johnson / The The rose out of the post-punk industrial music scene of late 1970s Britain. Over the years he has proven himself a prolific songwriter on various subjects. On 1986's "Heartland (51st State of the USA)" he railed against the Americanisation of the UK.

Michael Edward 'Mike' Cotton (born) is an English jazz and R&B trumpeter, flugelhornist, harmonicist, vocalist and bandleader born in Tottenham, North London, perhaps best-known for leading his band under the names "The Mike Cotton Jazzmen" and "The Mike Cotton Sound". The band backed several artists at various times, including Sugar Pie DeSanto, Gene Pitney, Stevie Wonder, Doris Troy, The Four Tops and Solomon Burke.

Lazy Lester (born Leslie Johnson in Torras, Louisiana, 20 June 1933) is a swamp blues harmonica master whose half-century career spans the 1950s to the 2000s. Best known for regional hits recorded with Jay Miller's Crowley, Louisiana-based Excello Records, Lester also contributed as a side-man to swamp blues classics recorded by Excello label-mates including Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, and Katie Webster.

Mo Ostin (born March 27, 1927) is a record executive, who has worked for several companies, including Verve, Reprise, Warner Brothers, and DreamWorks. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 by Paul Simon, Neil Young, and Lorne Michaels. He is known among his colleagues as the most artist-friendly executive in the music business. He was hired as president of Reprise by Frank Sinatra from Verve where he had been the accountant.

Johnny Rogan is an Irish/English author who first emerged in the late 70s with writings on West Coast American music. Rogan was born and spent his early childhood in the Pimlico area of London. His parents emigrated to London from Waterford (Ireland) in the 1930s. He is related to the actor John Rogan. His first book "Timeless Flight", an acclaimed biography of The Byrds was published when he was still a student at Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall.

Claire Hamill (born in 1954 in Middlesbrough in northern England) is a British singer-songwriter.

Keith Christmas is a singer and songwriter, born in Wivenhoe, near Colchester in Essex in 1946. In 1969 his first album "Stimulus" was released, he played acoustic guitar on David Bowie's "Space Oddity" album and appeared at the first Glastonbury Festival 1970. Through the 70s he produced four more albums, "Fable Of The Wings", "Pygmy", "Brighter Day" and "Stories From The Human Zoo" while touring with and supporting bands like The Who, King Crimson, Ten Years After, …

Walter Schreifels (born March 10 1969) is a rock musician and producer from New York City currently living in Berlin. In the late 80s, he played in many New York hardcore bands, most notably Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits (where he also acted as the songwriter). After Gorilla Biscuits broke up, he formed the short lived Moondog, in October 2006, the self titled album was released for the first time ever on Anthology Recordings.

Brenda Kahn is a NYC-based singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics. Her career began in 1990, when her first album, "Goldfish Don't Talk Back", was released to critical acclaim. The album showcased Kahn as an important voice of the anti-folk movement of the early nineties, a movement she was an important part of from the beginning. Her punk-tinged folk music led to a major label deal with the Chaos label at Columbia Records, and in 1992, …

Phil Palmer is a session guitarist in jazz and rock who has worked with numerous artists, including the Pet Shop Boys, Wishbone Ash (1986 touring), Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Dire Straits, Tina Turner, Chris de Burgh, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Wishbone Ash, Renato Zero and Melanie C. He often works with producer Trevor Horn. In 1993, Palmer assembled a band called Spin 1ne 2wo, …

Dylan Lee Howe (born August 4, 1969 in England) is a jazz drummer, studio/session drummer and composer.

Julian Mitchell (born May 1, 1935 in Epping, Essex) is an English screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for "Inspector Morse". He has written nine produced plays, including "Another Country", which won the SWET (now Oliviers) award for best play of the year (1981). He has also written the screen play for five movies, …

Dezider Hoffmann was a Slovak-Hungarian photographer, photojournalist and cameraman. He earned international acclaim in the 1960's, shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz, such as The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Kinks, The Shadows, Tom Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Omar Sharif and Pink Floyd.

Terrence Ashley Burrows (born January 18 1963) is an English multi-instrumental musician and author based in London. Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of computer manuals and music self-study guides including "KISS Guide to Playing Guitar" (Dorling Kindersley), "Total Guitar Tutor" (Barnes and Noble), and "Play Electric Guitar" (St Martin's Press).

Actor Christopher Timothy (b. October 14, 1940), is best known for his portrayal of veterinarian James Herriot in the television series "All Creatures Great and Small". Born in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, after appearing in the film " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", Timothy's TV career started with the 1969 series "Take Three Girls".

Robert Allan Arnold (13 August 1982), commonly known as Rob Arnold, is a postie from Wellington, New Zealand, who achieved more than his fair share of fifteen minutes of fame in a New Zealand boy band, Boyband, as the gay boy. Their debut single, a remake of the classic Kinks song "You Really Got Me", debuted at #1 on the New Zealand Music Charts on 9 October, 2006. Before Boyband, Rob had auditioned for every series of New Zealand Idol, …

Brad Heald is the current bassist in the Australian garage rock band The Vines. He replaced Patrick Matthews, the previous bassist of The Vines, who left during the Annandale gig where Craig Nicholls reportedly kicked a photographer. He joined the band in July 2006. He was originally in the Sydney local band D'Arcy. His first connection with the band was when he met Ryan at a house party. His favourite music includes The Kinks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, …

Frederick George Moore (born July 19, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Singer-Songwriter, also known as Demi Moore's first husband

C.J. Tywoniak (born February 1990 in San Mateo, CA) is an electric guitar prodigy and Paul Green's most accomplished student. He stood out in the rock music documentary film "Rock School" as a guitarist who can play better than most of the guitarists you see on "Saturday Night Live." As a 12-year old in the movie that was filmed in 2002-3 and produced in 2005, he played riffs from Carlos Santana, Frank Zappa & The Kinks like a musical genius.

Harry Wragg (1902 - 1985) was a British jockey and trainer. Wragg became a jockey in 1920. The Champion Jockey in 1941, he rode 13 winners of British Classic Races, as follows: *1000 Guineas - Campanula (1934), Herringbone (1943), Sun Stream (1945) *2000 Guineas - Garden Path (1944) *Derby - Felstead (1928), Blenheim (1930), Watling Street (1942) *Oaks - Rockfel (1938), Commotion (1941), Sun Stream (1945), Steady Aim (1946) *St Leger - Sandwich (1931), …

Scott David Zolak (born December 13, 1967 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) was an American football player who played quarterback in the NFL in the 1990's and played in a Super Bowl. He attended Ringgold High School in the Monongahela, Pennsylvania at the same high school where his father had coached Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana. He played college football at the University of Maryland. His eight year pro-career was spent with the New England Patriots, …

Bassist for the rock band The Kinks. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (along with the other Kinks) in 1990.