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"In July 1964 at IBC Studios in London, Shel Talmy prepared to give an unlikely group of musicians their last chance to have a hit." Gordon R. Thompson on British Pop in the summer of 1964    (A promotional photo of British rock group The Kinks, taken in Stockholm, Sweden, ca. 2 September 1965. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.) #music #Kinks #Summer1964 #BritPop The Kinks Band, Waterloo Sunset, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, You Really Got Me, 60s Music, Concept Album, The Kinks, Rock Vintage

In the opening months of 1964, The Beatles turned the American popular music world on its head, racking up hits and opening the door for other British musicians. Lennon and McCartney demonstrated that—in the footsteps of Americans like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry—British performers could be successful songwriters too.

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70s Bands, The Kinks Band, Waterloo Sunset, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Blue Soul, 1960s Music, Rock & Roll, 60s Music

The misconception that a pre-Yardbirds/Zeppelin Jimmy Page played the hectic guitar solo on the Kinks’ stunningly durable first hit “You Really Got Me” seems like it will never die, despite being denied repeatedly, for decades, by the song’s producer Shel Talmy, Page himself, and Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, who, as the actual pair of hands behind that solo, must be singularly miffed that he’s been so widely denied credit for it for five decades. (Davies also famously invented, by slashing…

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