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At this pivotal moment, the Kinks recorded \u201cYou Really Got Me\u201d &#8211; saving their careers and creating their most iconic track.\u00a0 More than that, the song\u2019s revolutionary sound and attitude would forever change the course of rock history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kinks were founded in North London in the early sixties by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, along with their schoolmates Pete Quaife and John Start.\u00a0 The Davies brothers had grown up in a music-loving family where they were exposed to a wide range of musical styles. Ray explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. He loved Jack Buchanan, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Max Miller, and he\u2019d seen Al Bowlly sing at the local pub.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise Dave recalls: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My sisters all played piano and my old man played the banjo, so there was always music around. My sisters\u2019 influence was very important. Dolly used to play Hank Williams and Slim Whitman records, and the younger ones used to play the Teddy Bears, Perry Como and the Crew Cuts &#8212; whatever was popular at the time.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first the band performed under the name \u201cThe Ray Davies Quartet\u201d or, alternatively, \u201cThe Pete Quaife Quartet\u201d &#8211; depending on which member was able to secure the gig.\u00a0 They went through several lead singers in their early days briefly including a young Rod Stewart (who was one of their school classmates). Eventually the band settled on Ray as lead vocals, and began to perform under the name \u201cthe Ravens\u201d. They attracted the attention of producer Shel Talmy, who helped them get signed to Pye Records in early 1964.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after getting picked up by Talmy, the band changed their names to the Kinks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The origin of the band\u2019s new name has been told through various conflicting stories. Some called the name a gimmick, aimed to attract attention through outrage (certainly the name carried some innuendo). But Ray Davies credits the name to their band manager Larry Page who used the term to describe the band\u2019s fashion: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way you look, and the clothes you wear, you ought to be called the Kinks.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it wasn\u2019t just the fashion that set the Kinks apart from the bands around them &#8211; they played with an aggressive edge that captured something of early rock \u2018n roll\u2019s rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band\u2019s first single, a cover of Little Richard\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long Tall Sally,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> channeled those early rock \u2018n roll roots, but its release attracted very little attention. Their second single \u201cYou Still Want Me\u201d similarly struggled, never even charting.\u00a0 At this point, Pye was threatening to annul their contract if things didn\u2019t turn around, placing immense pressure on the band\u2019s next single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kinks were in need of a hit, and they found it when Ray Davies came in with a new song he had just written &#8211; \u201cYou Really Got Me.\u201d He had written the song at the piano in his parents\u2019 home while the rest of his family was sitting down to dinner:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI sat down in the front room one day and started to write a song on the old upright. I thumped out those crude fifths with my left hand, and Little Richard-style eighth note chops with my right. I thought of a melody to go with the phrase I\u2019d come up with&#8230;: \u2018Yeah, you really got me going, you got me so I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u2019 When I called Dave in from the kitchen where he was having dinner with the rest of the family, he picked up his guitar and plugged into the green amp. [&#8230;] As the amp warmed up I heard that wonderful distorted sound. It was a perfect representation of my anger, and yet beautiful at the same time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band first recorded \u201cYou Really Got Me\u201d in Pye\u2019s Studio 2. Originally the song was recorded in a slower, blues style. Ray later explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I wrote &#8216;You Really Got Me&#8217;, I wanted it to be a blues song, like a Leadbelly or a Broonzy song. But because I was a white kid from North London, I put in certain musical shifts that made it unique to what I did.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When they finally finished the track, they decided they wanted a faster, more raw sound, but the record label refused to let them re-record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmy put his own finances on the line to make the second recording happen, moving the band to his preferred studio of IBC. He explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We wanted to get away from Pye Studios, where [the execs] would have been breathing down our necks\u2026.IBC, which had the deserved reputation of being the progenitor of most of England&#8217;s best engineers, was probably my favourite studio there. 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However,\u00a0 in 1964, Dave was creating a sound that few musicians had ever touched.\u00a0 To get that now-iconic effect, he actually slashed the speaker on his Alpico ACC55 \u201cLittle Green\u201d Amp. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dave remembered:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI bought this in a radio spares shop in Muswell Hill in 1962. I couldn\u2019t afford a Watkins Dominator or a bigger posher amp! I went home and plugged the Elpico loudspeaker\u2019s output leads into the input of the AC 30, in effect using the smaller amp as kind of a pre-amp.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sounded great but I wasn\u2019t satisfied. The crowning glory of my simple yet effective experiment was to slash the speaker cone of the Elpico with a razor blade so that the material, although now shredded, still remained intact with the outer side of the cone. As it vibrated it produced a distorted and jagged roar. In fact, the original set-up was so crude that the main amp\u2019s hum was almost as loud as the sound I had created.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sound was born, but I didn\u2019t know it at the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the guitar\u2019s phenomenal energy, the drums also drive the song\u2019s excitement. However, while the band had already met drummer Mick Avory by this time, his role in the band was not yet formalized. Thus, he did not play on \u201cYou Really Got Me\u201d\u00a0 Instead, Talmy brought in seasoned studio drummer Bobby Graham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song was released on August 4, 1964 and immediately began to climb the charts. It hit number 1 in the UK and was successful internationally, including hitting number 7 in the US Singles Charts. More than that, the song was incredibly influential on the entire rock music landscape. 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