Pete Quaife, the original bassist for British-invasion band the Kinks, died last Wednesday of kidney failure in Herlev, Denmark, where he had been keeping a low profile since 2005. He was 66. The Kinks, made up of four former art students, formed officially in 1963, and Quaife played on the band’s hits “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” “Tired of Waiting for You,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion,” “Sunny Afternoon,” and “Waterloo Sunset.” But the hostile rivalry between the band’s frontman-guitarist Ray Davies and his brother, guitarist Dave Davies, took its toll on Quaife, causing him to leave the band in 1969, with John Dalton replacing him on bass. Although he was John Entwistle’s favorite bass-player of all time, Quaife quit the music business entirely and returned to art, moving to Canada and becoming a graphic artist. After being diagnosed with kidney failure, he published a kind of cartoon memoir called The Lighter Side of Dialysis. On his website, Dave Davies recalls, “Without Pete, there would have been no Kinks. He was a great musician. You could always trust his playing, creative input, [and] intuitive response to musical ideas. The Kinks were never really the Kinks without [him].” So take that, John Dalton.