Mick Avory
Biography
Michael Charles Avory (born 15 February 1944) is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the English rock band the Kinks. He joined them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remained with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies. He is the longest-serving member of the band, apart from the Davies brothers. He is also the most prolific member, again apart from the Davies brothers, who has played on twenty studio albums or nearly all of the band's creative output.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One
1970
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
1968
Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
1969
Give The People What They Want
1981
Kinks
1964
One For The Road
1980
Word Of Mouth
1984
State Of Confusion
1983
Low Budget
1979
Muswell Hillbillies
1971
Kinda Kinks
1965
Misfits
1978
Sleepwalker
1977
Something Else By The Kinks
1967
Face To Face
1966
Come Dancing With The Kinks (The Best Of The Kinks 1977-1986)
1986
Everybody's In Show-Biz - Everybody's A Star
1972
Well Respected Kinks
1966
The Kinks Greatest Hits!
1966
The Kink Kontroversy
1965
Preservation Act 1
1973
Kinks Kinkdom
1965
Think Visual
1986
Schoolboys In Disgrace
1975
Credited work
1,274 releases · 75 albums · active 1964–2025
- Performance · 1,502
- Other credits · 195
Studios: Konk Studios · Pye Studios · Morgan Studios · Blue Rock Studio
Frequent collaborators
- The Kinks
- Kinks
- Ray Davies
- Dave Davies
- Various
- Cafe Society (4)
- Dave Walker & The Ambulators
- Claire Hamill