LITTLE ROCK — Bassist for ’60s rock band the Kinks.
Pete Quaife, a bassist who joined forces with two schoolmates to form the Kinks, one of the leading rock bands of the 1960s British Invasion, died Wednesday in Herlev, Denmark. He was 66.
The cause was kidney failure, a spokesman for the band said.
Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife on Dec. 31, 1943, he went to William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School in North London with Ray and Dave Davies, and the three began playing music together in 1961. After two failed singles the band struck gold in August 1964 with “YouReally Got Me.”
Within the group, Quaife was sometimes called the ambassador for his ability to break up the Davies brothers’ regular brawls. But eventually the Kinks’ bickering and frustrations forced him out.
After leaving the Kinks, Quaife played briefly with another band, Mapleoak, and worked as a graphic artist in Denmark and Canada. He was found to have renal failure in 1998, and documented his experiences in cartoons collected in two volumes of books titled The Lighter Side of Dialysis.
He is survived by his fiancee, Elisabeth Bilbo, and a daughter.
Tycoon, one-time aide to 3 presidents
Real estate magnate Walter Shorenstein, an adviser to U.S. presidents whose company controlled about 30 million square feet of commercial real estate, has died. He was 95.
He died Thursday of natural causes at his San Francisco home, said Andrew Neilly, a spokesman for The Shorenstein Co.
Shorenstein was a committed and influential Democrat and San Franciscan, who headed the effort to keep the Giants baseball team from moving to Florida in 1993.
A regular contributor tothe Democratic Party, Shorenstein was tapped as an adviser in several capacities, first by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, then during Jimmy Carter’s administration, and lastly by President Bill Clinton, who asked him to serve on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National Service and on the U.S. Commerce Department Industry Policy Advisory Committee.
He is survived by his daughter, Broadway producer Carole Shorenstein Hays; his son, Douglas Shorenstein, who now heads The Shorenstein Co.; and grandchildren.
Arkansas, Pages 24 on 06/27/2010