You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks

You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks

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Publisher Description

You Really Got Me is Nick Hasted’s illuminating biography of The Kinks, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with Ray and Dave Davies and shedding new light on a turbulent 30-year career scarred by suicide attempts, on-stage fights and recurring mental breakdowns.

The Kinks’ distorted fuzz cut through popular music like a chainsaw and unexpectedly propelled two brothers from North London straight to the heights of stardom, to stand alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. With exclusive interviews Nick Hasted untangles this turbulence: Why The Kinks became the only British group to be banned from America at the height of their success; why original bassist Pete Quaife quit in 1968; Ray Davies’ fraught relationship with Chrissie Hynde; how The Kinks’ later years rehabilitated their reputation in America.

Updated to include details of the hit musical Sunny Afternoon and an up-to-the-minute report on the troubled relationship between the Davies brothers, You Really Got Me is the ultimate Kinks biography.

“Keen eyed critique of a most contrary band” Uncut

“Hasted is illuminating” Guardian

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2017
1 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Music Sales Limited
SIZE
19.8
MB

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