Dave Davies hits back after The Kinks’ Hall Of Fame trophy appears on eBay: “This auction makes me very sad”

20 June, 2024

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Dave Davies of The Kinks has hit back after spotting his Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame trophy being put up for auction on eBay.

The original four members of The Kinks – Dave, his brother Ray, bassist Pete Quaife and drummer Mick Avory – were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990, reuniting for the first time in many years.

However, guitarist Dave noticed the award was up for auction for USD$12,500 (£9,860) and took to X/Twitter to share his feelings on seeing the listing, saying the award had been listed “without my consent”.

“I lost track of my award years ago and didn’t know where it was,” he wrote. “If the person bought it at a storage unit it may have been [around] the time of my 2004 stroke when I was incapacitated in [the] UK”.

Davies suffered a stroke in 2004 on June 30, staying in hospital for two months; the stroke forced him to relearn the guitar afterwards. He went on to record a full album called ‘Fractured Mindz’, releasing it in 2007, going on to make a full recovery.

Continuing on social media, Dave added: “I’m grateful to have made a full record from my stroke but it’s a shame that I wasn’t contacted. I’m assuming this is what happened. This auction makes me very sad.”

It appears as though Dave is working on a resolution; he later shared he had “written to the seller and are waiting to hear back. I don’t want to have to pay 12 grand to get my own award back. But maybe we can work something out more reasonable.”

The sellers who put the item up for sale, Colony Records, have also since reached out to the guitarist on X/Twitter, encouraging him to shoot them a message, to which Dave responded: “Ok thank you”.

NME spoke to The Kinks last year to celebrate their two-part anthology series called ‘The Journey‘ honouring the band’s 60th anniversary.

There, Ray shared the band had enough material for “about 20” new songs, adding: “There are about two or three songs I want to finish, and when they’re finished, I’ll put the whole thing together.”

However, he said a potential Kinks reunion remained “in the lap of the gods”, and would only come to fruition if they could lock in “a show that gives us the credit we deserve”.

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