Pete Quaife, the bassist with influential London rockers the Kinks – who made their name with tracks such as “You Really Got Me” back in the ‘60s – has died, at the age of 66.

As one of the founding members of the seminal British outfit, headed up songwriter Ray Davies, Quaife helped form the band after meeting brothers Ray and Dave Davies while attending William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School in Britain, where they formed the Ray Davies Quartet. Originally starting out on the guitar, Quaife switched instruments and played on infamous songs such as “All Day And All Of The Night”, as well as records such as the Village Green Preservation Society. He chose to leave the band in 1969, his bandmates not really believing he was exiting until they read an article about his new outfit, Maple Oak, in legendary British music press the New Musical Express.

Later moving to Ontario, Canada, and then to Denmark, Quaife rejoined his former bandmates to celebrate a 1981 show in Toronto as well as their 1990 induction in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He suffered from kidnety failure during the last few years of his life, which is said to be the cause of his death.