British drummer with the Kinks, born in London.

When Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones first got together as the Rolling Stones, at the Marquee Club in London in 1962, Avory was their drummer. However, he did not stay long as the band did not feel he was up to the task.

Around the same time, art school student Ray Davies joined his brother Dave's band, the Ravens. Switching his career interest to music, Ray took over the band, which he renamed the Kinks. The Davies brothers completed their lineup with bassist Pete Quaife and Avory on drums.

The Kinks enjoyed a period of significant success during the 1960s, but this began to decline by about 1969. Avory remained with the Kinks through these quiet years, although Quaife left.

The Kinks broke out of their commercial slump in the late 1970s and began a period of filling arenas in the US as new bands such as Van Halen and the Pretenders covered their old hits.

Avory parted ways with the Kinks in the mid-1980s. He went behind the scenes with the band when he stopped performing and works in a business role to this day at the Kinks' Konk Studios. He also plays in a jazz band.