Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife (born Kinnes; 31 December 1943 – 23 June 2010) was an English musician, artist and author.

[4] Quaife was born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Kinnes in Tavistock, Devon, to Joan Mary Kilby, who became pregnant during the war after an affair with an American serviceman.

[5] Kilby returned to London with her son, where she married Stanley Melville Quaife in 1947, who gave his surname to the young Peter.

[1] The band was originally called the Ravens and performed rhythm and blues at local venues such as the Hornsey Recreation Club at Crouch End Secondary School.

Cook left the band in June 1969, and was replaced by another Canadian: Gordon MacBain, who would write most of the group's original material.

In 1981, he made his only post 1960s concert appearance with the Kinks, playing bass in an encore number at a show in Toronto.

Quaife was an active amateur astronomer and was known as a capable astro-photographer who enjoyed the dark skies of The Bay of Quinte area in Ontario, Canada.

[7] Following their enthusiastic reception by other patients, they were subsequently published in book form as The Lighter Side of Dialysis (Jazz Communications, Toronto, 2004).

Thomas Kitts writes that in early 1966, Eric Clapton invited Quaife to join a band that would eventually become Cream.

During a Kinks Meeting in Utrecht, Netherlands, in September 2004, he read excerpts from Veritas, his fictional account of a 1960s rock group.

In 2005, Quaife was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Kinks, marking the final reunion of the four original band members.

However, in an interview aired on the Biography Channel in December 2008, Quaife flatly said he would never participate in any type of Kinks reunion.

[11][12] Mick Avory said that Quaife's decision to leave was a shame, adding it "made a big difference" to the band.