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{{Infobox song
| name = You Really Got Me
| cover = You Really Got Me cover.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Dutch single sleeve
| type = single
| artist = [[the Kinks]]
| album = <!-- THE SINGLE WAS RELEASED TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE ALBUM, SO IT IS NOT "FROM THE ALBUM", BUT LATER ADDED TO ONE. -->
| B-side = It's All Right
| released =
*{{Start date|1964|08|04|df=yes}} (UK)
*2 September 1964 (US)
| recorded = July 1964
| studio = [[IBC Studios|IBC]], London
| genre = <!-- GENRES NOT REFERENCED IN THE ARTICLE WILL BE REMOVED -->
*[[Garage rock]]
*[[hard rock]]
*[[rock and roll]]
*[[proto-punk]]
| length = 2:20<!--Time from original US single label (UK singles didn't show time)-->
| label =
*[[Pye Records|Pye]] (UK)
*[[Reprise Records|Reprise]] (US)
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = [[Shel Talmy]]
| chronology = The Kinks UK singles
| prev_title = [[You Still Want Me]]
| prev_year = 1964
| next_title = [[All Day and All of the Night]]
| next_year = 1964
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| artist = The Kinks US singles
| type = single
| prev_title = [[Long Tall Sally]]
| prev_year = 1964
| title = You Really Got Me
| year = 1964
| next_title = [[All Day and All of the Night]]
| next_year = 1964
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"'''You Really Got Me'''" is a song written by [[Ray Davies]] for English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Kinks]]. The song, originally performed in a more [[blues]]-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that future [[Led Zeppelin]] guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.
"You Really Got Me" was built around [[power chord]]s ([[perfect fifth]]s and octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the genres of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]]. Built around a guitar riff played by [[Dave Davies]], the song's lyrics were described by Dave as "a love song for street kids."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
"You Really Got Me" was released in the UK on 4 August 1964 by [[Pye Records]] as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. It was released in the US a month later on 2 September by [[Reprise Records]]. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top [[British Invasion]] acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. "You Really Got Me" was later included on the Kinks' debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]''. American rock band [[Van Halen]] adapted the song for their 1978 [[Van Halen (album)|self-titled debut album]]; it was released as their first single and peaked at 36 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
==Background==
{{quote box|quote=[The original demo version of 'You Really Got Me'] had very way-out words and a funny sort of ending that didn't. We did it differently on the record because [this original version] was really rather uncommercial.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}|width=28%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
"You Really Got Me" was written by [[Ray Davies]], the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Really Got Me'] I hadn't been writing songs very long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}
Davies said that he had been inspired to write the song one night during his college days playing with the Dave Hunt Band, when he saw an attractive girl on the dance floor. He said: "When we finished, I went off to find her, but she was gone and never returned to the club. She really got me going."<ref name=myers>{{cite book |last=Myers|first=Marc |author-link= Marc Myers|date=2016 |title=Anatomy of a Song |publisher=Grove Press |pages=35–39 |isbn=978-1-61185-525-8}}</ref>
During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Really Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}}
Ray, initially planning for the song to be a "more laid-back number", later played the chords of the song to brother Dave Davies, the Kinks' lead guitarist. However, upon hearing the track, Dave decided that the riff would be much more powerful on a guitar.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}} Ray said of the track's change to a guitar-centred track, "I wanted it to be a jazz-type tune, because that's what I liked at the time. It's written originally around a sax line ... Dave ended up playing the sax line in [[fuzz guitar]] and it took the song a step further."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} The band then began to perform the new track in some of their live shows, where it was well received.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}
In 1998, Ray said, "I'd written 'You Really Got Me' as tribute to all those great blues people I love: [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]."<ref name="Storyteller" /> Dave cited [[Gerry Mulligan]] as an inspiration, saying, "Ray was a great fan of Gerry Mulligan, who was in [the ''[[Jazz on a Summer's Day]]'' movie], and as he sat at the piano at home, he sort of messed around in a vein similar to Mulligan and came up with this figure based on a 12-bar blues".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Dave has also said that song had been inspired by [[Jimmy Giuffre]]'s song "The Train and the River".<ref name=HowWeMade/> According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of [[the Kingsmen]]'s "[[Louie Louie]]".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's "first serious female fans."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}<ref name="SOS">{{cite journal| url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/classictracks_0909.htm |first=Richard |last=Buskin |title=The Kinks 'You Really Got Me' Classic Track |journal=Sound on Sound |date=September 2009|access-date=24 June 2011 }}</ref>
==Recording==
{{quote box|quote= When I first heard ["You Really Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done in waltz time and it would have been a hit.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}|source= – [[Shel Talmy]], producer of "You Really Got Me"|width=20%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
The song was recorded by the Kinks at least twice in the summer of 1964. The band's demo was in a "bluesy" style, while a full studio version recorded in June was slower and less emphatic than the final single.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=28}} Shel Talmy had, according to Davies, covered the track in reverb, all but burying the lead guitar. The band wanted to rerecord the song, but their record company [[Pye Records|Pye]] refused to fund another session on the grounds that the band's first two singles had failed to chart.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Ray Davies, however, threatened that he would refuse to perform or promote the single unless it was re-recorded.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Manager Larry Page also refused to publish the original recording.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} When Pye stood its ground, the band's own management broke the stalemate by funding the session themselves.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|pp=65-66}} Ray Davies' adamant attitude on behalf of the career-making song effectively established him as the leader and chief songwriter of the Kinks. Davies later said, "I was floundering around trying to find an identity. It was in 1964 that I managed to do that, to be able to justify myself and say, 'I exist, I'm here.' I was literally born when that song hit."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=67}}
The influential [[Distortion (music)|distortion sound]] of the guitar track was created after guitarist Dave Davies sliced the speaker cone of his guitar amplifier with a razor blade and poked it with a pin.<ref name="amgreview"/> The amplifier was affectionately called "little green", after the name of the amplifier made by the Elpico company, and purchased in Davies' neighbourhood music shop, linked to a [[Vox AC-30]].<ref name=HowWeMade>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/10/how-we-made-you-really-got-me |title=How we made You Really Got Me|first= Dave|last= Simpson|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=10 June 2013|location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |access-date=24 June 2013}}</ref> In 2014, Dave Davies accused brother Ray of lying about participating in Dave's guitar distortion sound. Dave wrote on his Facebook page, "My brother is lying. I don't know why he does this but it was my Elpico amp that I bought and out of frustration I cut the speaker cone up with a razor blade and I was so shocked and surprised and excited that it worked that I demonstrated the sound to Ray and [Kinks bassist] Pete [Quaife]{{nbsp}}... Ray liked the sound and he had written a riff on the piano which formed the basis of the song 'You Really Got Me' and I played the riff on my guitar with my new sound. I alone created this sound."<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Kinks' Dave Davies Says His Brother Ray "Is Lying" About Creating "You Really Got Me" Guitar Sound|url = http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2014/12/1/the-kinks-dave-davies-says-his-brother-ray-is-lying-about-cr.html|website = ABC News Radio|access-date = 5 August 2015}}</ref>
According to recent Kinks' releases that give full official performance credits of the track, group members Ray Davies (vocals and rhythm guitar), Dave Davies (lead guitar), [[Pete Quaife]] (bass) are joined by session men [[Bobby Graham (musician)|Bobby Graham]] (drums), and [[Arthur Greenslade]] (piano).<ref name="PB">{{Cite AV media notes| title = Picture Book| year = 2008| publisher = Sanctuary Records| type = CD boxed set notes| oclc = 298443589}}</ref><ref name="TK">{{Cite AV media notes| title=The Kinks Deluxe Edition | year = 2011| publisher = Sanctuary Records| type = CD notes| oclc = 873524939}}</ref> Regular Kinks drummer [[Mick Avory]] plays the tambourine.
==Guitar solo==
The guitar solo on the recording has been the subject of the persistent myth that it was not played by the Kinks' lead guitarist Dave Davies, but by then-session player [[Jimmy Page]], who later joined [[the Yardbirds]] and [[Led Zeppelin]]. Among those claiming Page played lead guitar was [[Jon Lord]] of [[Deep Purple]], who also claimed to play piano on the track.<ref name=lord>{{cite web|last1=Lalaina|first1=Joe|title=Jon Lord's Purple Reign|url=http://www.thehighwaystar.com/interviews/lord/jl19890100.html|website=The Highway Star (archived from Modern Keyboard Magazine, January 1989)|access-date=24 June 2011}}</ref> Page has always denied playing the song's guitar solo, going so far as to state in a 1970s interview cited in ''[[Sound on Sound]]'' magazine that "I didn't play on 'You Really Got Me' and that's what pisses him [Ray Davies] off."<ref name=SOS /> Rock historian and author Doug Hinman makes a case that the rumour was begun and fostered by the established [[British rhythm and blues]] community, many of whose members were resentful that an upstart band of teenagers such as the Kinks could produce such a powerful and influential blues-based recording, seemingly out of nowhere.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=30}}
[[Shel Talmy]], the producer on the track, has gone on record and put the controversy to rest in an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', saying "contrary to myth, Jimmy didn't play on 'You Really Got Me'."<ref name=HowWeMade/> In a 7 November 2014 interview with [[Sirius XM Holdings|SiriusXM]]'s ''Town Hall'' series, Page confirmed again that he did not play on the song, saying "Oh, Crikey! I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records. That's all I'm going to say about it. But every time I do an interview, people ask me about 'You Really Got Me.' So maybe somebody can correct Wikipedia so people won't keep asking me."<ref name="5 Things">{{cite web|last1=Grow|first1=Kory|title=5 Things We Learned from Jimmy Page's SiriusXM Interview|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/5-things-we-learned-from-jimmy-pages-siriusxm-interview-20141107|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=26 April 2015}}</ref>
In his 1998 autobiographical release ''The Storyteller'',<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-storyteller-r347764 Ray Davies: The Storyteller]. AllMusic</ref> Ray Davies discusses the guitar solo. He confirms that his brother Dave played the solo and it was preceded by some bantering between the two:
{{quote|Halfway through the song it was time for Dave's guitar solo. This moment had to be right. So I shouted across the studio to Dave, give him encouragement. But I seemed to spoil his concentration. He looked at me with a dazed expression. 'Fuck off.' If you doubt me, if you doubt what I'm saying, I challenge you to listen to the original Kinks recording of 'You Really Got Me'. Halfway through the song, after the second chorus, before the guitar solo, there's a drum break. Boo ka, boo boo ka, boo ka, boo boo. And in the background you can hear 'fuck off'. You can, you can. When I did the vocal I tried to cover it up by going 'Oh no', but in the background you still hear it 'fuck off'. And it's even clearer on CD, it's really embarrassing.<ref name="Storyteller">{{cite AV media | people = Ray Davies | year = 1998 | title = The Storyteller | chapter = The Third Single (Dialogue) | medium = Sound recording | publisher = EMI/Capitol Records | oclc = 63515902}}</ref>|}}
==Music and lyrics==
Commentators have described "You Really Got Me" as [[garage rock]],{{sfn|Creswell|2007|p=684}} [[hard rock]],<ref name=VH1 /> [[rock and roll]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Swanson|first=Dave|date=11 April 2012|title=No. 59: The Kinks, 'You Really Got Me' – Top 100 Classic Rock Songs|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-kinks-you-really-got-me-top-100-classic-rock-songs/|access-date=26 September 2020|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}</ref> and [[proto-punk]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Gewen|first=Barry|date=5 March 2008|title=Ray Davies, Rock Poet?|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/ray-davies-rock-poet/|access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref> While Ray Davies had been instructed at the time to write "[[The Beatles|Beatle-type]]" material for commercial reasons, "You Really Got Me" was written as a more R&B-based composition.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} The song is centred on a guitar riff by Dave Davies, which has since been referred to as "instantly identifiable."<ref name=SOS /> American musicologist [[Robert Walser (musicologist)|Robert Walser]] described "You Really Got Me" as "the first hit song built around power chords."{{sfn|Walser|1993|p=9}} The song has since been labeled as an early influence of the [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] genre, with critic [[Denise Sullivan]] of [[AllMusic]] writing, {{"'}}You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."<ref name="amgreview">Sullivan, Denise. [{{AllMusic|class=song|id=t4750179|pure_url=yes}} "Review of 'You Really Got Me' "]. [[AllMusic]].</ref> However, Dave Davies has since rejected the idea that the song is heavy metal, saying "I've never really like that term, heavy metal. I think, in all humility, it was the first heavy guitar riff rock record. Just because of the sound—if you played it on a ukulele, it might not have been so powerful."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
The lyrics of the song are about lust and sex.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}} Dave Davies said of the song's lyrics, {{"'}}You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids. They're not going to wine and dine you, even if they knew how to chat you up. [They say] 'I want you—come here.{{'"}}{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
==Release and reception==
"You Really Got Me" was released as the band's third single on 4 August 1964, backed with "It's All Right" (also spelled "It's Alright).{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Within three days of the single's release, "You Really Got Me" began to appear on local charts. Eventually, the song climbed to the top of the British charts, the band's first single to do so.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Ray Davies later claimed that, due to the single's high demand, Pye Records put all their other records on hold to solely produce copies of "You Really Got Me".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Due to the high level of success the single achieved in the UK, a rush-release of "You Really Got Me" was put out in the US on 2 September 1964, despite being delayed from its initial release date of 26 August.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=34}} Although it did not enter the charts until 26 September, the record rose to number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=34}} The song later appeared on the band's debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]'', with the title of the American release of the album being changed to ''You Really Got Me''. Plans for Ray to sing versions of the song in French, German, Spanish, and Japanese for their respective markets were proposed by Shel Talmy, but they never materialized.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=32}} The single B-side, "It's All Right", was included on the UK EP ''Kinksize Hits'' (1964).<ref>{{cite AV media notes| year = 1964| title = Kinksize Hits| type = EP notes| others = [[The Kinks]]| location = London| publisher = [[Pye Records]]| id = NEP 24203| at = Back cover}}</ref> It was first issued on an album in the US, where it was included on the Kinks' third album ''[[Kinkdom]]'' (1965).<ref>{{cite AV media notes| year = 1965| title = [[Kinks Kinkdom]]| type = Album notes| others = [[The Kinks]]| publisher = [[Reprise Records]]| id = R 6184| at = Back cover}}</ref> Music writers have described the song as "shockingly different" to the Kinks' recorded work up to this point, and a "frenetic lost gem".{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=}}{{sfn|Unterberger|2002|p=621}} The song is included on a 1998 CD reissue of the group's debut album.{{sfn|Unterberger|2002|p=621}}
{{quote box|quote=We were really surprised when 'You Really Got Me' was a hit. Why wasn't our last disc, '[[You Still Want Me]]'? Because it wasn't any good. We didn't like it much ... We write for ourselves now.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}|width=25%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
Upon release, the single received a positive review from ''[[Record Mirror]]'', which said, "Highly promising group with strong guitar sound and a compact sort of vocal performance. Mid-tempo but bustling song should sell well."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} In ''[[Melody Maker]]'', singer [[Dave Berry (musician)|Dave Berry]] was featured in a blindfold test of the song, with Berry at first guessing the song was by the Kingsmen.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} He said, "It's fabulous, this one. I like these records that sound as if they've gone into a recording studio and done what they wanted to on the spot. It's a good chance of being a big hit."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} The ''Melody Maker'' review had a lasting impact on Ray Davies, who said that Berry "had a few hits – so he mattered" and that Berry's belief that the band had "done what they wanted" had "said it all" for him.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}}{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=70}}
The Kinks' use of distorted guitar riffs continued with songs like "[[All Day and All of the Night]]", "[[Tired of Waiting for You]]", and "[[Set Me Free (The Kinks song)|Set Me Free]]", among others. [[Pete Townshend]] of [[the Who]], a band also produced by Talmy at that time, has stated that their first single, "[[I Can't Explain]]", was influenced by the Kinks' work at the time.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=79}} Other artists influenced by "You Really Got Me" include [[Tom Petty]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=72}} [[John Lydon]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=51}} [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]],{{sfn|Jackson|2000}} [[Chris Bell (American musician)|Chris Bell]] of [[Big Star]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=72}} and [[Jimi Hendrix]], who, according to Dave Davies, described the song as "a landmark record".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
In 1999, "You Really Got Me" was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>[http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#y "Grammy Hall of Fame Award"] Grammy.org Retrieved 20 December 2012</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine placed the song at number 82 on their [[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|list of the 500 greatest songs of all time]] and at number four on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.<ref>{{cite journal| title=The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time |journal=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625061017/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/41 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/41 |archive-date=25 June 2008 |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref> In early 2005, the song was voted the best British song of the 1955–1965 decade in a [[BBC]] radio poll.<ref name="bbc poll">{{cite web|title=Kinks edge Beatles in song vote|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4573259.stm|website=BBC News|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> In March 2005, [[Q magazine|''Q'' magazine]] placed it at number nine in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.<ref name=q>{{cite web|title=Greatest Guitar Tracks|url=http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/greatest_guitar_tracks.html?no_takeover|website=Ultimate Guitar (archived from Q)|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> In 2009, it was named the 57th Greatest Hard Rock Song by [[VH1]].<ref name="VH1">{{cite web|title=VH1 Top 100 Hard Rock Songs|url=http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/|publisher=Spreadit.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421175832/http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/|archive-date=21 April 2016|date=1 January 2009| access-date= 7 February 2009}}</ref>
==Live history==
{{Infobox song
| name = You Really Got Me (live)
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[the Kinks]]
| album = [[One for the Road (The Kinks album)|One for the Road]]
| B-side = [[Attitude (The Kinks song)|Attitude]]
| released = {{Start date|1980|10|29|df=yes}}
| recorded = 6 March 1979
| venue = [[Lowell Memorial Auditorium]], Massachusetts
| genre =
| length = {{Duration|3:35}}
| label = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = Ray Davies
| chronology = [[The Kinks]] US
| prev_title = [[Lola (song)#Live versions|Lola (live)]]
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = [[Destroyer (The Kinks song)|Destroyer]]
| next_year = 1981
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Prior to its release, the Kinks performed "You Really Got Me" in some of their early concerts.{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} It was a crowd favourite, with Ray Davies later claiming to feel a connection with the crowd as he performed the song.{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Ray later said, "Our success came from playing [the song] live. When we played 'You Really Got Me' people actually took notice. They realised we had something original."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
The Kinks continued to perform successfully for over 30 years through many musical styles, but "You Really Got Me" remained a mainstay in concert.<ref name=amgreview />{{sfn|Hinman|2004|pp=8–341}} During some shows, the song was played in a medley with its follow-up single "All Day and All of the Night," while in 1977, a performance on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' featured a four-song medley of "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "[[A Well Respected Man]]", and "[[Lola (song)|Lola]]".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|pp=342-344}} In a live performance on the ''[[Don Lane Show]]'' in 1982, "You Really Got Me" was featured in a medley with the band's 1981 song, "[[Destroyer (The Kinks song)|Destroyer]]."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=344}} In 1984, Dave Davies claimed that, even after twenty years of performing "You Really Got Me," the track was "still fun to play live."<ref name=inthespotlight>{{cite web|last1=Clapton|first1=Diana|title=Dave Davies - In the Spotlight|url=http://www.davedavies.com/articles/fac_0284.htm|website=davedavies.com}}</ref>
A live version of "You Really Got Me" was released on the band's 1980 live album, ''[[One for the Road (The Kinks album)|One for the Road]]''. This version, following the minor success of the same album's live version of "[[Lola (song)#Live versions|Lola]]", was released as a single in America, backed with the live take of ''[[Low Budget (album)|Low Budget's]]'' "[[Attitude (The Kinks song)|Attitude]]".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=244}} However, the single failed to chart.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=244}} This version was later included on the 1986 compilation album, ''[[The Kinks discography#Compilation albums|Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977–1986]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=282}}
Other live renditions of "You Really Got Me" have also been released. A version on ''[[Live at Kelvin Hall]]'' recorded at [[Kelvin Hall]] in Glasgow, Scotland, was released in 1967, while a performance at the [[Mann Center for the Performing Arts|Mann Music Center]] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, appeared on 1994's ''[[To the Bone (The Kinks album)|To the Bone]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=320}} The Davies brothers also performed a live version in Boston, Massachusetts with [[the Smithereens]] in November 1991, which later appeared on the latter band's 1995 compilation album ''[[Attack of the Smithereens]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=336}} Both Ray and Dave Davies still perform the song in solo shows, generally as a closing number.
In December 2015, Ray Davies joined brother Dave onstage at one of his concerts to perform "You Really Got Me".<ref name=rs>{{cite web|last1=Kreps|first1=Daniel|title=Watch the Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies Reunite Onstage for 'You Really Got Me'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-the-kinks-ray-and-dave-davies-reunite-onstage-for-you-really-got-me-20151219|website=Rolling Stone}}</ref> The event marked the first time the brothers performed on stage together in nearly twenty years, sparking rumors of a possible Kinks reunion that were fulfilled in 2018 with announcements the Davies brothers were collaborating on new material.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/26/ray-davies-kinks-officially-getting-back-together/|title=Ray Davies: The Kinks are officially getting back together|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=26 June 2018|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
==Charts and certifications==
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'''Weekly charts'''
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1964–1965)
!Peak<br>position
|-
!scope="row"|Australia<ref>{{cite book |title=The Book - Top 40 Research 1956 - 2012 |first1=Jim |last1=Barnes |first2=Stephen |last2=Scanes |edition=9 |isbn=978-0-646-25736-5 |year=2015}}</ref>
|2
|-
{{singlechart|Belgium (Wallonia)|42|artist=The Kinks|song=You Really Got Me|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{singlechart|Canadatopsingles|4|chartid=4685|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|Finland ([[Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Timo|date=13 August 2015|title=Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit KET - KIR|url=http://suomenlistalevyt.blogspot.com/2015/08/ket-kir.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Sisältää hitin}}</ref>
|40
|-
!scope="row"|France ([[Institut français d'opinion publique|IFOP]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_K.php|title=InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque Artiste commençant par K|publisher=InfoDisc|language=fr|id=Select "Kinks" from the artist drop-down menu|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
| 16
|-
{{singlechart|Germany|39|artist=The Kinks|song=You Really Got Me|songid=12225|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden ([[Kvällstoppen]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hallberg|first=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975|publisher=Drift Musik|year=193|isbn=9163021404}}</ref>
| 11
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden (''Tio i Topp'')<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hallberg|first1=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74|last2=Henningsson|first2=Ulf|publisher=Premium Publishing|year=1998|isbn=919727125X}}</ref>
| 8
|-
{{singlechart|Ireland2|6|song=You Really Got Me|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|UK ([[Official Charts Company]])<ref name="UK">{{cite web |url= http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/kinks/ |title= Kinks |publisher= Official Charts Company |access-date= 2 July 2013}}</ref>
|1
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|7|artist=The Kinks|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19641205.html|title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending December 5, 1964|work=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box magazine]]|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
|5
|}
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'''Year-end charts'''
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (1964)
! style="text-align:center;"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|UK Singles (Official Charts Company)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top 100 1964 - UK Music Charts|url=http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1964.shtml|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.uk-charts.top-source.info}}</ref>
|26
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard Year-End|''Billboard'' Year-End]]<ref name="House of Speak Easy">{{cite web|last1=Arrowsmith|first1=Charles|title=THE BOOM YEARS: P.J. O'ROURKE ON WHAT WENT WRONG… AND RIGHT|url=http://www.houseofspeakeasy.org/pj-orourke/|website=House of Speak Easy|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|78
|}
{{col-end}}
'''Certifications'''
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Kinks|title=You Really Got Me|award=Gold|relyear=2005|certyear=2020|id=14166-1446-1|access-date=3 July 2020}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
==Van Halen version==
{{Infobox song
| name = You Really Got Me
| cover = Van Halen - You Really Got Me.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Van Halen]]
| album = [[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]
| B-side = Atomic Punk
| released = {{Start date|1978|01|28|df=y}}
| recorded = September–October 1977
| studio =
| genre =
*[[Hard rock]]
*[[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
| length = {{Duration|2:35}}
| label = [[Warner Music Group|Warner Bros.]]
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = [[Ted Templeman]]
| next_title = [[Runnin' with the Devil]]
| next_year = 1978
| misc = {{Audio sample
| type = single
| file = Vhyoureallygotme.ogg
}}
}}
{{anchor|Van Halen}}
The American [[hard rock]] band [[Van Halen]] released a cover of "You Really Got Me" for their 1978 debut album, ''[[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]''. As the band's first single, it was a popular radio hit that helped jump-start the band's career,<ref name="HallFame">[http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/van-halen "Van Halen - Inductee 2007"]. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 12 March 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2009.</ref> as it had done for [[the Kinks]] 14 years earlier. This version, which was cited by [[Eddie Van Halen]] as an "updated" version of the original, featured "histrionic" guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen and "vocal shenanigans" by [[David Lee Roth]].<ref name=amgreview /> The song had been played by the band live for years before its studio release. On the radio, it is often featured with "[[Eruption (instrumental)|Eruption]]", the instrumental that precedes it on the album, as an intro.{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=39}}
The song was released as a single as a result of an encounter between Eddie Van Halen and members of the band [[Angel (American band)|Angel]]. Eddie Van Halen and Angel drummer Barry Brandt had both been bragging about their new material to one another, resulting in Eddie Van Halen showing a demo of "You Really Got Me" to Brandt. On the following day, the band's producer, [[Ted Templeman]] told Van Halen that Angel was recording their own cover of "You Really Got Me" to release before Van Halen's version. As a result, the song was rush-released as a single before Angel could do so.{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=101}}
Eddie Van Halen later expressed dissatisfaction with the use of "You Really Got Me" as the band's debut single. He said, "It kind of bummed me out that Ted [Templeman] wanted our first single to be someone else's tune. I would have maybe picked "Jamie's Cryin{{'"}}, just because it was our own."{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=101}}
The Kinks' Dave Davies has claimed to dislike Van Halen's rendition of the song, saying "There's the thing: good art isn't always about having the comfiest technique. I shouldn't encourage him, but I'm sure Eddie Van Halen played better when he was drunk." He also told of how a concert-goer approached him after a live show and congratulated him on performing a "great cover of the Van Halen song."<ref name="blabber">[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902 "Dave Davies Slams Van Halen's The Kinks Cover"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806173740/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902 |date=6 August 2010 }}. Blabbermouth. 2 August 2010.</ref> Ray Davies, on the other hand, claimed to like the track because it made him laugh.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=244}}
'''Charts'''
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1978)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=319}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|12
|-
|Canadian [[RPM (magazine)|''RPM'' Top Singles]]<ref name="canada vh">{{cite web|title=Van Halen - Canadian charts|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=8p5k1rerala3n6bajf4aqaqc95&q1=Van+Halen&q2=Top+Singles&interval|access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|49
|-
|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="allmusic vh">{{cite web|title=Van Halen - Awards|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/van-halen-mn0000260206/awards|website=allmusic|access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|36
|}
{|class="wikitable"
!Chart (2020)
!Peak<br>position
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardrocksongs|21|artist=Van Halen|access-date=13 October 2020}}
|}
==See also==
*[[List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s]]
{{Clear}}
==References==
'''Citations'''
{{Reflist}}
'''Sources'''
* {{cite book
| last=Creswell
| first=Toby
| year=2007
| title=1001 Songs
| publisher=Hardie Grant Publishing
| isbn=978-1-74066-458-5
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Hasted
| first=Nick
| year=2011
| title=You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks
| publisher=Omnibus Press
| isbn=978-1849386609
| url-access=registration
| url=https://archive.org/details/storyofkinksyour0000hast
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Hinman
| first=Doug
| year=2004
| title=The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961-1996
| publisher=Backbeat Books
| isbn=978-0879307653
}}
*{{cite book
| last=Jackson
| first=Joe
| title=A Cure for Gravity
| year=2000
| publisher=Anchor Books
| isbn=978-1862300842
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Jovanovic
| first=Rob
| year=2014
| title=God Save The Kinks: A Biography
| publisher=Aurum Press Ltd.
| isbn=978-1781311646
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Tolinsky
| first=Brad
| year=2010
| title=Guitar World Presents Van Halen
| publisher=Backbeat Books
| isbn=978-0879309695
}}
*{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Unterberger
| first = Richie
| author-link = Richie Unterberger
| year = 2002
| title = ''Kinks''
| editor-last3 = Erlewine
| editor-first3 = Stephen Thomas
| editor-link3 = Stephen Thomas Erlewine
| editor-last = Bogdanov
| editor-first = Vladimir
| editor-link = Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)
| editor-last2 = Woodstra
| editor-first2 = Chris
| encyclopedia = All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul
| location = San Francisco
| publisher = [[Backbeat Books]]
| isbn = 0-87930-653-X
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Walser
| first=Robert
| year=1993
| title=Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
| publisher=[[Wesleyan University Press]]
| isbn=0-8195-6260-2
| url-access=registration
| url=https://archive.org/details/runningwithdevil00wals
}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Van Halen Guitar Anthology|pages=33–9|publisher=Alfred|location=Van Nuys, California|year=2006|isbn=9780897246729|oclc=605214049}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = You Very Got Me
| cover = You Very Got Me cover.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Dutch single sleeve
| type = single
| artist = [[the Kinks]]
| album = <!-- THE SINGLE WAS RELEASED TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE ALBUM, SO IT IS NOT "FROM THE ALBUM", BUT LATER ADDED TO ONE. -->
| B-side = It's All Right
| released =
*{{Start date|1964|08|04|df=yes}} (UK)
*2 September 1964 (US)
| recorded = July 1964
| studio = [[IBC Studios|IBC]], London
| genre = <!-- GENRES NOT REFERENCED IN THE ARTICLE WILL BE REMOVED -->
*[[Garage rock]]
*[[hard rock]]
*[[rock and roll]]
*[[proto-punk]]
| length = 2:20<!--Time from original US single label (UK singles didn't show time)-->
| label =
*[[Pye Records|Pye]] (UK)
*[[Reprise Records|Reprise]] (US)
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = [[Shel Talmy]]
| chronology = The Kinks UK singles
| prev_title = [[You Still Want Me]]
| prev_year = 1964
| next_title = [[All Day and All of the Night]]
| next_year = 1964
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = The Kinks US singles
| type = single
| prev_title = [[Long Tall Sally]]
| prev_year = 1964
| title = You Really Got Me
| year = 1964
| next_title = [[All Day and All of the Night]]
| next_year = 1964
}}{{Audio sample
| type = single
| file = The Kinks You Very Got Me.ogg
}}
}}
"'''You Very Got Me'''" is a song written by [[Ray Davies]] for English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Kinks]]. The song, originally performed in a more [[blues]]-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that future [[Led Zeppelin]] guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.
"You Very Got Me" was built around [[power chord]]s ([[perfect fifth]]s and octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the genres of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]]. Built around a guitar riff played by [[Dave Davies]], the song's lyrics were described by Dave as "a love song for street kids."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
"You Very Got Me" was released in the UK on 4 August 1964 by [[Pye Records]] as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. It was released in the US a month later on 2 September by [[Reprise Records]]. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top [[British Invasion]] acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. "You Very Got Me" was later included on the Kinks' debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]''. American rock band [[Van Halen]] adapted the song for their 1978 [[Van Halen (album)|self-titled debut album]]; it was released as their first single and peaked at 36 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
==Background==
{{quote box|quote=[The original demo version of 'You Very Got Me'] had very way-out words and a funny sort of ending that didn't. We did it differently on the record because [this original version] was really rather uncommercial.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}|width=28%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
"You Very Got Me" was written by [[Ray Davies]], the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Very Got Me'] I hadn't been writing songs very long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}
Davies said that he had been inspired to write the song one night during his college days playing with the Dave Hunt Band, when he saw an attractive girl on the dance floor. He said: "When we finished, I went off to find her, but she was gone and never returned to the club. She really got me going."<ref name=myers>{{cite book |last=Myers|first=Marc |author-link= Marc Myers|date=2016 |title=Anatomy of a Song |publisher=Grove Press |pages=35–39 |isbn=978-1-61185-525-8}}</ref>
During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Very Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}}
Ray, initially planning for the song to be a "more laid-back number", later played the chords of the song to brother Dave Davies, the Kinks' lead guitarist. However, upon hearing the track, Dave decided that the riff would be much more powerful on a guitar.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}} Ray said of the track's change to a guitar-centred track, "I wanted it to be a jazz-type tune, because that's what I liked at the time. It's written originally around a sax line ... Dave ended up playing the sax line in [[fuzz guitar]] and it took the song a step further."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} The band then began to perform the new track in some of their live shows, where it was well received.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}
In 1998, Ray said, "I'd written 'You Very Got Me' as tribute to all those great blues people I love: [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]."<ref name="Storyteller" /> Dave cited [[Gerry Mulligan]] as an inspiration, saying, "Ray was a great fan of Gerry Mulligan, who was in [the ''[[Jazz on a Summer's Day]]'' movie], and as he sat at the piano at home, he sort of messed around in a vein similar to Mulligan and came up with this figure based on a 12-bar blues".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Dave has also said that song had been inspired by [[Jimmy Giuffre]]'s song "The Train and the River".<ref name=HowWeMade/> According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of [[the Kingsmen]]'s "[[Louie Louie]]".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's "first serious female fans."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}<ref name="SOS">{{cite journal| url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/classictracks_0909.htm |first=Richard |last=Buskin |title=The Kinks 'You Very Got Me' Classic Track |journal=Sound on Sound |date=September 2009|access-date=24 June 2011 }}</ref>
==Recording==
{{quote box|quote= When I first heard ["You Very Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done in waltz time and it would have been a hit.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}|source= – [[Shel Talmy]], producer of "You Really Got Me"|width=20%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
The song was recorded by the Kinks at least twice in the summer of 1964. The band's demo was in a "bluesy" style, while a full studio version recorded in June was slower and less emphatic than the final single.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=28}} Shel Talmy had, according to Davies, covered the track in reverb, all but burying the lead guitar. The band wanted to rerecord the song, but their record company [[Pye Records|Pye]] refused to fund another session on the grounds that the band's first two singles had failed to chart.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Ray Davies, however, threatened that he would refuse to perform or promote the single unless it was re-recorded.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Manager Larry Page also refused to publish the original recording.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} When Pye stood its ground, the band's own management broke the stalemate by funding the session themselves.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|pp=65-66}} Ray Davies' adamant attitude on behalf of the career-making song effectively established him as the leader and chief songwriter of the Kinks. Davies later said, "I was floundering around trying to find an identity. It was in 1964 that I managed to do that, to be able to justify myself and say, 'I exist, I'm here.' I was literally born when that song hit."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=67}}
The influential [[Distortion (music)|distortion sound]] of the guitar track was created after guitarist Dave Davies sliced the speaker cone of his guitar amplifier with a razor blade and poked it with a pin.<ref name="amgreview"/> The amplifier was affectionately called "little green", after the name of the amplifier made by the Elpico company, and purchased in Davies' neighbourhood music shop, linked to a [[Vox AC-30]].<ref name=HowWeMade>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/10/how-we-made-you-really-got-me |title=How we made You Really Got Me|first= Dave|last= Simpson|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=10 June 2013|location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |access-date=24 June 2013}}</ref> In 2014, Dave Davies accused brother Ray of lying about participating in Dave's guitar distortion sound. Dave wrote on his Facebook page, "My brother is lying. I don't know why he does this but it was my Elpico amp that I bought and out of frustration I cut the speaker cone up with a razor blade and I was so shocked and surprised and excited that it worked that I demonstrated the sound to Ray and [Kinks bassist] Pete [Quaife]{{nbsp}}... Ray liked the sound and he had written a riff on the piano which formed the basis of the song 'You Really Got Me' and I played the riff on my guitar with my new sound. I alone created this sound."<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Kinks' Dave Davies Says His Brother Ray "Is Lying" About Creating "You Really Got Me" Guitar Sound|url = http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2014/12/1/the-kinks-dave-davies-says-his-brother-ray-is-lying-about-cr.html|website = ABC News Radio|access-date = 5 August 2015}}</ref>
According to recent Kinks' releases that give full official performance credits of the track, group members Ray Davies (vocals and rhythm guitar), Dave Davies (lead guitar), [[Pete Quaife]] (bass) are joined by session men [[Bobby Graham (musician)|Bobby Graham]] (drums), and [[Arthur Greenslade]] (piano).<ref name="PB">{{Cite AV media notes| title = Picture Book| year = 2008| publisher = Sanctuary Records| type = CD boxed set notes| oclc = 298443589}}</ref><ref name="TK">{{Cite AV media notes| title=The Kinks Deluxe Edition | year = 2011| publisher = Sanctuary Records| type = CD notes| oclc = 873524939}}</ref> Regular Kinks drummer [[Mick Avory]] plays the tambourine.
==Guitar solo==
The guitar solo on the recording has been the subject of the persistent myth that it was not played by the Kinks' lead guitarist Dave Davies, but by then-session player [[Jimmy Page]], who later joined [[the Yardbirds]] and [[Led Zeppelin]]. Among those claiming Page played lead guitar was [[Jon Lord]] of [[Deep Purple]], who also claimed to play piano on the track.<ref name=lord>{{cite web|last1=Lalaina|first1=Joe|title=Jon Lord's Purple Reign|url=http://www.thehighwaystar.com/interviews/lord/jl19890100.html|website=The Highway Star (archived from Modern Keyboard Magazine, January 1989)|access-date=24 June 2011}}</ref> Page has always denied playing the song's guitar solo, going so far as to state in a 1970s interview cited in ''[[Sound on Sound]]'' magazine that "I didn't play on 'You Really Got Me' and that's what pisses him [Ray Davies] off."<ref name=SOS /> Rock historian and author Doug Hinman makes a case that the rumour was begun and fostered by the established [[British rhythm and blues]] community, many of whose members were resentful that an upstart band of teenagers such as the Kinks could produce such a powerful and influential blues-based recording, seemingly out of nowhere.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=30}}
[[Shel Talmy]], the producer on the track, has gone on record and put the controversy to rest in an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', saying "contrary to myth, Jimmy didn't play on 'You Really Got Me'."<ref name=HowWeMade/> In a 7 November 2014 interview with [[Sirius XM Holdings|SiriusXM]]'s ''Town Hall'' series, Page confirmed again that he did not play on the song, saying "Oh, Crikey! I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records. That's all I'm going to say about it. But every time I do an interview, people ask me about 'You Really Got Me.' So maybe somebody can correct Wikipedia so people won't keep asking me."<ref name="5 Things">{{cite web|last1=Grow|first1=Kory|title=5 Things We Learned from Jimmy Page's SiriusXM Interview|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/5-things-we-learned-from-jimmy-pages-siriusxm-interview-20141107|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=26 April 2015}}</ref>
In his 1998 autobiographical release ''The Storyteller'',<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-storyteller-r347764 Ray Davies: The Storyteller]. AllMusic</ref> Ray Davies discusses the guitar solo. He confirms that his brother Dave played the solo and it was preceded by some bantering between the two:
{{quote|Halfway through the song it was time for Dave's guitar solo. This moment had to be right. So I shouted across the studio to Dave, give him encouragement. But I seemed to spoil his concentration. He looked at me with a dazed expression. 'Fuck off.' If you doubt me, if you doubt what I'm saying, I challenge you to listen to the original Kinks recording of 'You Really Got Me'. Halfway through the song, after the second chorus, before the guitar solo, there's a drum break. Boo ka, boo boo ka, boo ka, boo boo. And in the background you can hear 'fuck off'. You can, you can. When I did the vocal I tried to cover it up by going 'Oh no', but in the background you still hear it 'fuck off'. And it's even clearer on CD, it's really embarrassing.<ref name="Storyteller">{{cite AV media | people = Ray Davies | year = 1998 | title = The Storyteller | chapter = The Third Single (Dialogue) | medium = Sound recording | publisher = EMI/Capitol Records | oclc = 63515902}}</ref>|}}
==Music and lyrics==
Commentators have described "You Really Got Me" as [[garage rock]],{{sfn|Creswell|2007|p=684}} [[hard rock]],<ref name=VH1 /> [[rock and roll]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Swanson|first=Dave|date=11 April 2012|title=No. 59: The Kinks, 'You Really Got Me' – Top 100 Classic Rock Songs|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-kinks-you-really-got-me-top-100-classic-rock-songs/|access-date=26 September 2020|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}</ref> and [[proto-punk]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Gewen|first=Barry|date=5 March 2008|title=Ray Davies, Rock Poet?|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/ray-davies-rock-poet/|access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref> While Ray Davies had been instructed at the time to write "[[The Beatles|Beatle-type]]" material for commercial reasons, "You Really Got Me" was written as a more R&B-based composition.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} The song is centred on a guitar riff by Dave Davies, which has since been referred to as "instantly identifiable."<ref name=SOS /> American musicologist [[Robert Walser (musicologist)|Robert Walser]] described "You Really Got Me" as "the first hit song built around power chords."{{sfn|Walser|1993|p=9}} The song has since been labeled as an early influence of the [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] genre, with critic [[Denise Sullivan]] of [[AllMusic]] writing, {{"'}}You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."<ref name="amgreview">Sullivan, Denise. [{{AllMusic|class=song|id=t4750179|pure_url=yes}} "Review of 'You Really Got Me' "]. [[AllMusic]].</ref> However, Dave Davies has since rejected the idea that the song is heavy metal, saying "I've never really like that term, heavy metal. I think, in all humility, it was the first heavy guitar riff rock record. Just because of the sound—if you played it on a ukulele, it might not have been so powerful."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
The lyrics of the song are about lust and sex.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}} Dave Davies said of the song's lyrics, {{"'}}You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids. They're not going to wine and dine you, even if they knew how to chat you up. [They say] 'I want you—come here.{{'"}}{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
==Release and reception==
"You Really Got Me" was released as the band's third single on 4 August 1964, backed with "It's All Right" (also spelled "It's Alright).{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Within three days of the single's release, "You Really Got Me" began to appear on local charts. Eventually, the song climbed to the top of the British charts, the band's first single to do so.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Ray Davies later claimed that, due to the single's high demand, Pye Records put all their other records on hold to solely produce copies of "You Really Got Me".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} Due to the high level of success the single achieved in the UK, a rush-release of "You Really Got Me" was put out in the US on 2 September 1964, despite being delayed from its initial release date of 26 August.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=34}} Although it did not enter the charts until 26 September, the record rose to number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=34}} The song later appeared on the band's debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]'', with the title of the American release of the album being changed to ''You Really Got Me''. Plans for Ray to sing versions of the song in French, German, Spanish, and Japanese for their respective markets were proposed by Shel Talmy, but they never materialized.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=32}} The single B-side, "It's All Right", was included on the UK EP ''Kinksize Hits'' (1964).<ref>{{cite AV media notes| year = 1964| title = Kinksize Hits| type = EP notes| others = [[The Kinks]]| location = London| publisher = [[Pye Records]]| id = NEP 24203| at = Back cover}}</ref> It was first issued on an album in the US, where it was included on the Kinks' third album ''[[Kinkdom]]'' (1965).<ref>{{cite AV media notes| year = 1965| title = [[Kinks Kinkdom]]| type = Album notes| others = [[The Kinks]]| publisher = [[Reprise Records]]| id = R 6184| at = Back cover}}</ref> Music writers have described the song as "shockingly different" to the Kinks' recorded work up to this point, and a "frenetic lost gem".{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=}}{{sfn|Unterberger|2002|p=621}} The song is included on a 1998 CD reissue of the group's debut album.{{sfn|Unterberger|2002|p=621}}
{{quote box|quote=We were really surprised when 'You Really Got Me' was a hit. Why wasn't our last disc, '[[You Still Want Me]]'? Because it wasn't any good. We didn't like it much ... We write for ourselves now.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}|width=25%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
Upon release, the single received a positive review from ''[[Record Mirror]]'', which said, "Highly promising group with strong guitar sound and a compact sort of vocal performance. Mid-tempo but bustling song should sell well."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} In ''[[Melody Maker]]'', singer [[Dave Berry (musician)|Dave Berry]] was featured in a blindfold test of the song, with Berry at first guessing the song was by the Kingsmen.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} He said, "It's fabulous, this one. I like these records that sound as if they've gone into a recording studio and done what they wanted to on the spot. It's a good chance of being a big hit."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}} The ''Melody Maker'' review had a lasting impact on Ray Davies, who said that Berry "had a few hits – so he mattered" and that Berry's belief that the band had "done what they wanted" had "said it all" for him.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=31}}{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=70}}
The Kinks' use of distorted guitar riffs continued with songs like "[[All Day and All of the Night]]", "[[Tired of Waiting for You]]", and "[[Set Me Free (The Kinks song)|Set Me Free]]", among others. [[Pete Townshend]] of [[the Who]], a band also produced by Talmy at that time, has stated that their first single, "[[I Can't Explain]]", was influenced by the Kinks' work at the time.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=79}} Other artists influenced by "You Really Got Me" include [[Tom Petty]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=72}} [[John Lydon]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=51}} [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]],{{sfn|Jackson|2000}} [[Chris Bell (American musician)|Chris Bell]] of [[Big Star]],{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=72}} and [[Jimi Hendrix]], who, according to Dave Davies, described the song as "a landmark record".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
In 1999, "You Really Got Me" was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>[http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#y "Grammy Hall of Fame Award"] Grammy.org Retrieved 20 December 2012</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine placed the song at number 82 on their [[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|list of the 500 greatest songs of all time]] and at number four on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.<ref>{{cite journal| title=The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time |journal=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625061017/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/41 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/41 |archive-date=25 June 2008 |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref> In early 2005, the song was voted the best British song of the 1955–1965 decade in a [[BBC]] radio poll.<ref name="bbc poll">{{cite web|title=Kinks edge Beatles in song vote|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4573259.stm|website=BBC News|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> In March 2005, [[Q magazine|''Q'' magazine]] placed it at number nine in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.<ref name=q>{{cite web|title=Greatest Guitar Tracks|url=http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/greatest_guitar_tracks.html?no_takeover|website=Ultimate Guitar (archived from Q)|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> In 2009, it was named the 57th Greatest Hard Rock Song by [[VH1]].<ref name="VH1">{{cite web|title=VH1 Top 100 Hard Rock Songs|url=http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/|publisher=Spreadit.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421175832/http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/|archive-date=21 April 2016|date=1 January 2009| access-date= 7 February 2009}}</ref>
==Live history==
{{Infobox song
| name = You Really Got Me (live)
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[the Kinks]]
| album = [[One for the Road (The Kinks album)|One for the Road]]
| B-side = [[Attitude (The Kinks song)|Attitude]]
| released = {{Start date|1980|10|29|df=yes}}
| recorded = 6 March 1979
| venue = [[Lowell Memorial Auditorium]], Massachusetts
| genre =
| length = {{Duration|3:35}}
| label = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = Ray Davies
| chronology = [[The Kinks]] US
| prev_title = [[Lola (song)#Live versions|Lola (live)]]
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = [[Destroyer (The Kinks song)|Destroyer]]
| next_year = 1981
}}
Prior to its release, the Kinks performed "You Really Got Me" in some of their early concerts.{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} It was a crowd favourite, with Ray Davies later claiming to feel a connection with the crowd as he performed the song.{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Ray later said, "Our success came from playing [the song] live. When we played 'You Really Got Me' people actually took notice. They realised we had something original."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
The Kinks continued to perform successfully for over 30 years through many musical styles, but "You Really Got Me" remained a mainstay in concert.<ref name=amgreview />{{sfn|Hinman|2004|pp=8–341}} During some shows, the song was played in a medley with its follow-up single "All Day and All of the Night," while in 1977, a performance on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' featured a four-song medley of "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "[[A Well Respected Man]]", and "[[Lola (song)|Lola]]".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|pp=342-344}} In a live performance on the ''[[Don Lane Show]]'' in 1982, "You Really Got Me" was featured in a medley with the band's 1981 song, "[[Destroyer (The Kinks song)|Destroyer]]."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=344}} In 1984, Dave Davies claimed that, even after twenty years of performing "You Really Got Me," the track was "still fun to play live."<ref name=inthespotlight>{{cite web|last1=Clapton|first1=Diana|title=Dave Davies - In the Spotlight|url=http://www.davedavies.com/articles/fac_0284.htm|website=davedavies.com}}</ref>
A live version of "You Really Got Me" was released on the band's 1980 live album, ''[[One for the Road (The Kinks album)|One for the Road]]''. This version, following the minor success of the same album's live version of "[[Lola (song)#Live versions|Lola]]", was released as a single in America, backed with the live take of ''[[Low Budget (album)|Low Budget's]]'' "[[Attitude (The Kinks song)|Attitude]]".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=244}} However, the single failed to chart.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=244}} This version was later included on the 1986 compilation album, ''[[The Kinks discography#Compilation albums|Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977–1986]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=282}}
Other live renditions of "You Really Got Me" have also been released. A version on ''[[Live at Kelvin Hall]]'' recorded at [[Kelvin Hall]] in Glasgow, Scotland, was released in 1967, while a performance at the [[Mann Center for the Performing Arts|Mann Music Center]] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, appeared on 1994's ''[[To the Bone (The Kinks album)|To the Bone]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=320}} The Davies brothers also performed a live version in Boston, Massachusetts with [[the Smithereens]] in November 1991, which later appeared on the latter band's 1995 compilation album ''[[Attack of the Smithereens]]''.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=336}} Both Ray and Dave Davies still perform the song in solo shows, generally as a closing number.
In December 2015, Ray Davies joined brother Dave onstage at one of his concerts to perform "You Really Got Me".<ref name=rs>{{cite web|last1=Kreps|first1=Daniel|title=Watch the Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies Reunite Onstage for 'You Really Got Me'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-the-kinks-ray-and-dave-davies-reunite-onstage-for-you-really-got-me-20151219|website=Rolling Stone}}</ref> The event marked the first time the brothers performed on stage together in nearly twenty years, sparking rumors of a possible Kinks reunion that were fulfilled in 2018 with announcements the Davies brothers were collaborating on new material.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/26/ray-davies-kinks-officially-getting-back-together/|title=Ray Davies: The Kinks are officially getting back together|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=26 June 2018|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
==Charts and certifications==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
'''Weekly charts'''
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1964–1965)
!Peak<br>position
|-
!scope="row"|Australia<ref>{{cite book |title=The Book - Top 40 Research 1956 - 2012 |first1=Jim |last1=Barnes |first2=Stephen |last2=Scanes |edition=9 |isbn=978-0-646-25736-5 |year=2015}}</ref>
|2
|-
{{singlechart|Belgium (Wallonia)|42|artist=The Kinks|song=You Really Got Me|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{singlechart|Canadatopsingles|4|chartid=4685|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|Finland ([[Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Timo|date=13 August 2015|title=Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit KET - KIR|url=http://suomenlistalevyt.blogspot.com/2015/08/ket-kir.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Sisältää hitin}}</ref>
|40
|-
!scope="row"|France ([[Institut français d'opinion publique|IFOP]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_K.php|title=InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque Artiste commençant par K|publisher=InfoDisc|language=fr|id=Select "Kinks" from the artist drop-down menu|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
| 16
|-
{{singlechart|Germany|39|artist=The Kinks|song=You Really Got Me|songid=12225|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden ([[Kvällstoppen]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hallberg|first=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975|publisher=Drift Musik|year=193|isbn=9163021404}}</ref>
| 11
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden (''Tio i Topp'')<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hallberg|first1=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74|last2=Henningsson|first2=Ulf|publisher=Premium Publishing|year=1998|isbn=919727125X}}</ref>
| 8
|-
{{singlechart|Ireland2|6|song=You Really Got Me|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|UK ([[Official Charts Company]])<ref name="UK">{{cite web |url= http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/kinks/ |title= Kinks |publisher= Official Charts Company |access-date= 2 July 2013}}</ref>
|1
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|7|artist=The Kinks|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19641205.html|title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending December 5, 1964|work=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box magazine]]|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
|5
|}
{{col-2}}
'''Year-end charts'''
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (1964)
! style="text-align:center;"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|UK Singles (Official Charts Company)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top 100 1964 - UK Music Charts|url=http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1964.shtml|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.uk-charts.top-source.info}}</ref>
|26
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard Year-End|''Billboard'' Year-End]]<ref name="House of Speak Easy">{{cite web|last1=Arrowsmith|first1=Charles|title=THE BOOM YEARS: P.J. O'ROURKE ON WHAT WENT WRONG… AND RIGHT|url=http://www.houseofspeakeasy.org/pj-orourke/|website=House of Speak Easy|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|78
|}
{{col-end}}
'''Certifications'''
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Kinks|title=You Really Got Me|award=Gold|relyear=2005|certyear=2020|id=14166-1446-1|access-date=3 July 2020}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
==Van Halen version==
{{Infobox song
| name = You Really Got Me
| cover = Van Halen - You Really Got Me.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Van Halen]]
| album = [[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]
| B-side = Atomic Punk
| released = {{Start date|1978|01|28|df=y}}
| recorded = September–October 1977
| studio =
| genre =
*[[Hard rock]]
*[[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
| length = {{Duration|2:35}}
| label = [[Warner Music Group|Warner Bros.]]
| writer = [[Ray Davies]]
| producer = [[Ted Templeman]]
| next_title = [[Runnin' with the Devil]]
| next_year = 1978
| misc = {{Audio sample
| type = single
| file = Vhyoureallygotme.ogg
}}
}}
{{anchor|Van Halen}}
The American [[hard rock]] band [[Van Halen]] released a cover of "You Really Got Me" for their 1978 debut album, ''[[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]''. As the band's first single, it was a popular radio hit that helped jump-start the band's career,<ref name="HallFame">[http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/van-halen "Van Halen - Inductee 2007"]. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 12 March 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2009.</ref> as it had done for [[the Kinks]] 14 years earlier. This version, which was cited by [[Eddie Van Halen]] as an "updated" version of the original, featured "histrionic" guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen and "vocal shenanigans" by [[David Lee Roth]].<ref name=amgreview /> The song had been played by the band live for years before its studio release. On the radio, it is often featured with "[[Eruption (instrumental)|Eruption]]", the instrumental that precedes it on the album, as an intro.{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=39}}
The song was released as a single as a result of an encounter between Eddie Van Halen and members of the band [[Angel (American band)|Angel]]. Eddie Van Halen and Angel drummer Barry Brandt had both been bragging about their new material to one another, resulting in Eddie Van Halen showing a demo of "You Really Got Me" to Brandt. On the following day, the band's producer, [[Ted Templeman]] told Van Halen that Angel was recording their own cover of "You Really Got Me" to release before Van Halen's version. As a result, the song was rush-released as a single before Angel could do so.{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=101}}
Eddie Van Halen later expressed dissatisfaction with the use of "You Really Got Me" as the band's debut single. He said, "It kind of bummed me out that Ted [Templeman] wanted our first single to be someone else's tune. I would have maybe picked "Jamie's Cryin{{'"}}, just because it was our own."{{sfn|Tolinsky|2010|p=101}}
The Kinks' Dave Davies has claimed to dislike Van Halen's rendition of the song, saying "There's the thing: good art isn't always about having the comfiest technique. I shouldn't encourage him, but I'm sure Eddie Van Halen played better when he was drunk." He also told of how a concert-goer approached him after a live show and congratulated him on performing a "great cover of the Van Halen song."<ref name="blabber">[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902 "Dave Davies Slams Van Halen's The Kinks Cover"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806173740/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902 |date=6 August 2010 }}. Blabbermouth. 2 August 2010.</ref> Ray Davies, on the other hand, claimed to like the track because it made him laugh.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=244}}
'''Charts'''
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1978)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=319}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|12
|-
|Canadian [[RPM (magazine)|''RPM'' Top Singles]]<ref name="canada vh">{{cite web|title=Van Halen - Canadian charts|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=8p5k1rerala3n6bajf4aqaqc95&q1=Van+Halen&q2=Top+Singles&interval|access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|49
|-
|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="allmusic vh">{{cite web|title=Van Halen - Awards|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/van-halen-mn0000260206/awards|website=allmusic|access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|36
|}
{|class="wikitable"
!Chart (2020)
!Peak<br>position
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardrocksongs|21|artist=Van Halen|access-date=13 October 2020}}
|}
==See also==
*[[List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s]]
{{Clear}}
==References==
'''Citations'''
{{Reflist}}
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}}
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}}
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}}
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| isbn=978-1781311646
}}
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| last=Tolinsky
| first=Brad
| year=2010
| title=Guitar World Presents Van Halen
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*{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Unterberger
| first = Richie
| author-link = Richie Unterberger
| year = 2002
| title = ''Kinks''
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| editor-last = Bogdanov
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Van Halen Guitar Anthology|pages=33–9|publisher=Alfred|location=Van Nuys, California|year=2006|isbn=9780897246729|oclc=605214049}}
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-"'''You Really Got Me'''" is a song written by [[Ray Davies]] for English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Kinks]]. The song, originally performed in a more [[blues]]-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that future [[Led Zeppelin]] guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.
+"'''You Very Got Me'''" is a song written by [[Ray Davies]] for English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Kinks]]. The song, originally performed in a more [[blues]]-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that future [[Led Zeppelin]] guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.
-"You Really Got Me" was built around [[power chord]]s ([[perfect fifth]]s and octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the genres of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]]. Built around a guitar riff played by [[Dave Davies]], the song's lyrics were described by Dave as "a love song for street kids."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
+"You Very Got Me" was built around [[power chord]]s ([[perfect fifth]]s and octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the genres of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]]. Built around a guitar riff played by [[Dave Davies]], the song's lyrics were described by Dave as "a love song for street kids."{{sfn|Hasted|2011}}
-"You Really Got Me" was released in the UK on 4 August 1964 by [[Pye Records]] as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. It was released in the US a month later on 2 September by [[Reprise Records]]. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top [[British Invasion]] acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. "You Really Got Me" was later included on the Kinks' debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]''. American rock band [[Van Halen]] adapted the song for their 1978 [[Van Halen (album)|self-titled debut album]]; it was released as their first single and peaked at 36 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
+"You Very Got Me" was released in the UK on 4 August 1964 by [[Pye Records]] as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. It was released in the US a month later on 2 September by [[Reprise Records]]. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top [[British Invasion]] acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. "You Very Got Me" was later included on the Kinks' debut album, ''[[Kinks (album)|Kinks]]''. American rock band [[Van Halen]] adapted the song for their 1978 [[Van Halen (album)|self-titled debut album]]; it was released as their first single and peaked at 36 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
==Background==
-{{quote box|quote=[The original demo version of 'You Really Got Me'] had very way-out words and a funny sort of ending that didn't. We did it differently on the record because [this original version] was really rather uncommercial.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}|width=28%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
+{{quote box|quote=[The original demo version of 'You Very Got Me'] had very way-out words and a funny sort of ending that didn't. We did it differently on the record because [this original version] was really rather uncommercial.|source= – Ray Davies{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}|width=28%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
-"You Really Got Me" was written by [[Ray Davies]], the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Really Got Me'] I hadn't been writing songs very long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}
+"You Very Got Me" was written by [[Ray Davies]], the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Very Got Me'] I hadn't been writing songs very long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}
Davies said that he had been inspired to write the song one night during his college days playing with the Dave Hunt Band, when he saw an attractive girl on the dance floor. He said: "When we finished, I went off to find her, but she was gone and never returned to the club. She really got me going."<ref name=myers>{{cite book |last=Myers|first=Marc |author-link= Marc Myers|date=2016 |title=Anatomy of a Song |publisher=Grove Press |pages=35–39 |isbn=978-1-61185-525-8}}</ref>
-During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Really Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}}
+During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Very Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}}
Ray, initially planning for the song to be a "more laid-back number", later played the chords of the song to brother Dave Davies, the Kinks' lead guitarist. However, upon hearing the track, Dave decided that the riff would be much more powerful on a guitar.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=64}} Ray said of the track's change to a guitar-centred track, "I wanted it to be a jazz-type tune, because that's what I liked at the time. It's written originally around a sax line ... Dave ended up playing the sax line in [[fuzz guitar]] and it took the song a step further."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} The band then began to perform the new track in some of their live shows, where it was well received.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}
-In 1998, Ray said, "I'd written 'You Really Got Me' as tribute to all those great blues people I love: [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]."<ref name="Storyteller" /> Dave cited [[Gerry Mulligan]] as an inspiration, saying, "Ray was a great fan of Gerry Mulligan, who was in [the ''[[Jazz on a Summer's Day]]'' movie], and as he sat at the piano at home, he sort of messed around in a vein similar to Mulligan and came up with this figure based on a 12-bar blues".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Dave has also said that song had been inspired by [[Jimmy Giuffre]]'s song "The Train and the River".<ref name=HowWeMade/> According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of [[the Kingsmen]]'s "[[Louie Louie]]".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's "first serious female fans."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}<ref name="SOS">{{cite journal| url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/classictracks_0909.htm |first=Richard |last=Buskin |title=The Kinks 'You Really Got Me' Classic Track |journal=Sound on Sound |date=September 2009|access-date=24 June 2011 }}</ref>
+In 1998, Ray said, "I'd written 'You Very Got Me' as tribute to all those great blues people I love: [[Lead Belly]] and [[Big Bill Broonzy]]."<ref name="Storyteller" /> Dave cited [[Gerry Mulligan]] as an inspiration, saying, "Ray was a great fan of Gerry Mulligan, who was in [the ''[[Jazz on a Summer's Day]]'' movie], and as he sat at the piano at home, he sort of messed around in a vein similar to Mulligan and came up with this figure based on a 12-bar blues".{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}} Dave has also said that song had been inspired by [[Jimmy Giuffre]]'s song "The Train and the River".<ref name=HowWeMade/> According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of [[the Kingsmen]]'s "[[Louie Louie]]".{{sfn|Hasted|2011}} Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's "first serious female fans."{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=24}}<ref name="SOS">{{cite journal| url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/classictracks_0909.htm |first=Richard |last=Buskin |title=The Kinks 'You Very Got Me' Classic Track |journal=Sound on Sound |date=September 2009|access-date=24 June 2011 }}</ref>
==Recording==
-{{quote box|quote= When I first heard ["You Really Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done in waltz time and it would have been a hit.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}|source= – [[Shel Talmy]], producer of "You Really Got Me"|width=20%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
+{{quote box|quote= When I first heard ["You Very Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done in waltz time and it would have been a hit.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}}|source= – [[Shel Talmy]], producer of "You Really Got Me"|width=20%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
The song was recorded by the Kinks at least twice in the summer of 1964. The band's demo was in a "bluesy" style, while a full studio version recorded in June was slower and less emphatic than the final single.{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=28}} Shel Talmy had, according to Davies, covered the track in reverb, all but burying the lead guitar. The band wanted to rerecord the song, but their record company [[Pye Records|Pye]] refused to fund another session on the grounds that the band's first two singles had failed to chart.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Ray Davies, however, threatened that he would refuse to perform or promote the single unless it was re-recorded.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} Manager Larry Page also refused to publish the original recording.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=65}} When Pye stood its ground, the band's own management broke the stalemate by funding the session themselves.{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|pp=65-66}} Ray Davies' adamant attitude on behalf of the career-making song effectively established him as the leader and chief songwriter of the Kinks. Davies later said, "I was floundering around trying to find an identity. It was in 1964 that I managed to do that, to be able to justify myself and say, 'I exist, I'm here.' I was literally born when that song hit."{{sfn|Jovanovic|2014|p=67}}
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<table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="background-color: khaki;">"You Very Got Me"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=You_Very_Got_Me_cover.jpg" class="new" title="File:You Very Got Me cover.jpg">File:You Very Got Me cover.jpg</a><div class="infobox-caption">Dutch single sleeve</div></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">the Kinks</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"It's All Right"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">
<ul><li>4 August 1964<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1964-08-04</span>)</span> (UK)</li>
<li>2 September 1964 (US)</li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">July 1964</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Recording_studio" title="Recording studio">Studio</a></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/IBC_Studios" title="IBC Studios">IBC</a>, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock">Garage rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Proto-punk" title="Proto-punk">proto-punk</a></li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">2</span>:<span class="s">20</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pye_Records" title="Pye Records">Pye</a> (UK)</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Reprise_Records" title="Reprise Records">Reprise</a> (US)</li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Shel_Talmy" title="Shel Talmy">Shel Talmy</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;">The Kinks UK singles chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0;">"<a href="/wiki/You_Still_Want_Me" title="You Still Want Me">You Still Want Me</a>" <br />(1964)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding:.2em .1em;">"<b>You Very Got Me</b>" <br />(1964)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/wiki/All_Day_and_All_of_the_Night" title="All Day and All of the Night">All Day and All of the Night</a>" <br />(1964)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0">"<a href="/wiki/Long_Tall_Sally" title="Long Tall Sally">Long Tall Sally</a>"<br />(1964)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em">"<b>You Really Got Me</b>"<br />(1964)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em">"<a href="/wiki/All_Day_and_All_of_the_Night" title="All Day and All of the Night">All Day and All of the Night</a>"<br />(1964)
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<p>"<b>You Very Got Me</b>" is a song written by <a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a> for English <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">the Kinks</a>. The song, originally performed in a more <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a>-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as <a href="/wiki/Lead_Belly" title="Lead Belly">Lead Belly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Big_Bill_Broonzy" title="Big Bill Broonzy">Big Bill Broonzy</a>. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that future <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a> guitarist <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a> had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.
</p><p>"You Very Got Me" was built around <a href="/wiki/Power_chord" title="Power chord">power chords</a> (<a href="/wiki/Perfect_fifth" title="Perfect fifth">perfect fifths</a> and octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the genres of <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a>. Built around a guitar riff played by <a href="/wiki/Dave_Davies" title="Dave Davies">Dave Davies</a>, the song's lyrics were described by Dave as "a love song for street kids."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>"You Very Got Me" was released in the UK on 4 August 1964 by <a href="/wiki/Pye_Records" title="Pye Records">Pye Records</a> as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. It was released in the US a month later on 2 September by <a href="/wiki/Reprise_Records" title="Reprise Records">Reprise Records</a>. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top <a href="/wiki/British_Invasion" title="British Invasion">British Invasion</a> acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. "You Very Got Me" was later included on the Kinks' debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/Kinks_(album)" title="Kinks (album)">Kinks</a></i>. American rock band <a href="/wiki/Van_Halen" title="Van Halen">Van Halen</a> adapted the song for their 1978 <a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_(album)" title="Van Halen (album)">self-titled debut album</a>; it was released as their first single and peaked at 36 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a>.
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<div class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style="">[The original demo version of 'You Very Got Me'] had very way-out words and a funny sort of ending that didn't. We did it differently on the record because [this original version] was really rather uncommercial.</div>
<p><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– Ray Davies<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup></cite>
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<p>"You Very Got Me" was written by <a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a>, the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup> Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup> Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Very Got Me'] I hadn't been writing songs very long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>Davies said that he had been inspired to write the song one night during his college days playing with the Dave Hunt Band, when he saw an attractive girl on the dance floor. He said: "When we finished, I went off to find her, but she was gone and never returned to the club. She really got me going."<sup id="cite_ref-myers_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myers-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Very Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464-4">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>Ray, initially planning for the song to be a "more laid-back number", later played the chords of the song to brother Dave Davies, the Kinks' lead guitarist. However, upon hearing the track, Dave decided that the riff would be much more powerful on a guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464-4">[4]</a></sup> Ray said of the track's change to a guitar-centred track, "I wanted it to be a jazz-type tune, because that's what I liked at the time. It's written originally around a sax line ... Dave ended up playing the sax line in <a href="/wiki/Fuzz_guitar" class="mw-redirect" title="Fuzz guitar">fuzz guitar</a> and it took the song a step further."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup> The band then began to perform the new track in some of their live shows, where it was well received.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>In 1998, Ray said, "I'd written 'You Very Got Me' as tribute to all those great blues people I love: <a href="/wiki/Lead_Belly" title="Lead Belly">Lead Belly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Big_Bill_Broonzy" title="Big Bill Broonzy">Big Bill Broonzy</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Storyteller_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Storyteller-6">[6]</a></sup> Dave cited <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Mulligan" title="Gerry Mulligan">Gerry Mulligan</a> as an inspiration, saying, "Ray was a great fan of Gerry Mulligan, who was in [the <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_on_a_Summer%27s_Day" title="Jazz on a Summer's Day">Jazz on a Summer's Day</a></i> movie], and as he sat at the piano at home, he sort of messed around in a vein similar to Mulligan and came up with this figure based on a 12-bar blues".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup> Dave has also said that song had been inspired by <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Giuffre" title="Jimmy Giuffre">Jimmy Giuffre</a>'s song "The Train and the River".<sup id="cite_ref-HowWeMade_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HowWeMade-7">[7]</a></sup> According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of <a href="/wiki/The_Kingsmen" title="The Kingsmen">the Kingsmen</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Louie_Louie" title="Louie Louie">Louie Louie</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup> Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's "first serious female fans."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SOS_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOS-8">[8]</a></sup>
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<div class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style="">When I first heard ["You Very Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done in waltz time and it would have been a hit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-5">[5]</a></sup></div>
<p><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– <a href="/wiki/Shel_Talmy" title="Shel Talmy">Shel Talmy</a>, producer of "You Really Got Me"</cite>
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<p>The song was recorded by the Kinks at least twice in the summer of 1964. The band's demo was in a "bluesy" style, while a full studio version recorded in June was slower and less emphatic than the final single.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200428_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200428-9">[9]</a></sup> Shel Talmy had, according to Davies, covered the track in reverb, all but burying the lead guitar. The band wanted to rerecord the song, but their record company <a href="/wiki/Pye_Records" title="Pye Records">Pye</a> refused to fund another session on the grounds that the band's first two singles had failed to chart.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-5">[5]</a></sup> Ray Davies, however, threatened that he would refuse to perform or promote the single unless it was re-recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-5">[5]</a></sup> Manager Larry Page also refused to publish the original recording.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-5">[5]</a></sup> When Pye stood its ground, the band's own management broke the stalemate by funding the session themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-66_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-66-10">[10]</a></sup> Ray Davies' adamant attitude on behalf of the career-making song effectively established him as the leader and chief songwriter of the Kinks. Davies later said, "I was floundering around trying to find an identity. It was in 1964 that I managed to do that, to be able to justify myself and say, 'I exist, I'm here.' I was literally born when that song hit."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201467_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201467-11">[11]</a></sup>
</p><p>The influential <a href="/wiki/Distortion_(music)" title="Distortion (music)">distortion sound</a> of the guitar track was created after guitarist Dave Davies sliced the speaker cone of his guitar amplifier with a razor blade and poked it with a pin.<sup id="cite_ref-amgreview_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amgreview-12">[12]</a></sup> The amplifier was affectionately called "little green", after the name of the amplifier made by the Elpico company, and purchased in Davies' neighbourhood music shop, linked to a <a href="/wiki/Vox_AC-30" class="mw-redirect" title="Vox AC-30">Vox AC-30</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HowWeMade_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HowWeMade-7">[7]</a></sup> In 2014, Dave Davies accused brother Ray of lying about participating in Dave's guitar distortion sound. Dave wrote on his Facebook page, "My brother is lying. I don't know why he does this but it was my Elpico amp that I bought and out of frustration I cut the speaker cone up with a razor blade and I was so shocked and surprised and excited that it worked that I demonstrated the sound to Ray and [Kinks bassist] Pete [Quaife]<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Ray liked the sound and he had written a riff on the piano which formed the basis of the song 'You Really Got Me' and I played the riff on my guitar with my new sound. I alone created this sound."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
</p><p>According to recent Kinks' releases that give full official performance credits of the track, group members Ray Davies (vocals and rhythm guitar), Dave Davies (lead guitar), <a href="/wiki/Pete_Quaife" title="Pete Quaife">Pete Quaife</a> (bass) are joined by session men <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Graham_(musician)" title="Bobby Graham (musician)">Bobby Graham</a> (drums), and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Greenslade" title="Arthur Greenslade">Arthur Greenslade</a> (piano).<sup id="cite_ref-PB_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PB-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TK_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TK-15">[15]</a></sup> Regular Kinks drummer <a href="/wiki/Mick_Avory" title="Mick Avory">Mick Avory</a> plays the tambourine.
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<p>The guitar solo on the recording has been the subject of the persistent myth that it was not played by the Kinks' lead guitarist Dave Davies, but by then-session player <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a>, who later joined <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds">the Yardbirds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a>. Among those claiming Page played lead guitar was <a href="/wiki/Jon_Lord" title="Jon Lord">Jon Lord</a> of <a href="/wiki/Deep_Purple" title="Deep Purple">Deep Purple</a>, who also claimed to play piano on the track.<sup id="cite_ref-lord_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lord-16">[16]</a></sup> Page has always denied playing the song's guitar solo, going so far as to state in a 1970s interview cited in <i><a href="/wiki/Sound_on_Sound" title="Sound on Sound">Sound on Sound</a></i> magazine that "I didn't play on 'You Really Got Me' and that's what pisses him [Ray Davies] off."<sup id="cite_ref-SOS_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOS-8">[8]</a></sup> Rock historian and author Doug Hinman makes a case that the rumour was begun and fostered by the established <a href="/wiki/British_rhythm_and_blues" title="British rhythm and blues">British rhythm and blues</a> community, many of whose members were resentful that an upstart band of teenagers such as the Kinks could produce such a powerful and influential blues-based recording, seemingly out of nowhere.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200430_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200430-17">[17]</a></sup>
</p><p><a href="/wiki/Shel_Talmy" title="Shel Talmy">Shel Talmy</a>, the producer on the track, has gone on record and put the controversy to rest in an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, saying "contrary to myth, Jimmy didn't play on 'You Really Got Me'."<sup id="cite_ref-HowWeMade_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HowWeMade-7">[7]</a></sup> In a 7 November 2014 interview with <a href="/wiki/Sirius_XM_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="Sirius XM Holdings">SiriusXM</a>'s <i>Town Hall</i> series, Page confirmed again that he did not play on the song, saying "Oh, Crikey! I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records. That's all I'm going to say about it. But every time I do an interview, people ask me about 'You Really Got Me.' So maybe somebody can correct Wikipedia so people won't keep asking me."<sup id="cite_ref-5_Things_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5_Things-18">[18]</a></sup>
</p><p>In his 1998 autobiographical release <i>The Storyteller</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> Ray Davies discusses the guitar solo. He confirms that his brother Dave played the solo and it was preceded by some bantering between the two:
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<p>Commentators have described "You Really Got Me" as <a href="/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock">garage rock</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreswell2007684_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECreswell2007684-20">[20]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-VH1_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VH1-21">[21]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Proto-punk" title="Proto-punk">proto-punk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> While Ray Davies had been instructed at the time to write "<a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatle-type</a>" material for commercial reasons, "You Really Got Me" was written as a more R&B-based composition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200424_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200424-2">[2]</a></sup> The song is centred on a guitar riff by Dave Davies, which has since been referred to as "instantly identifiable."<sup id="cite_ref-SOS_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOS-8">[8]</a></sup> American musicologist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Walser_(musicologist)" title="Robert Walser (musicologist)">Robert Walser</a> described "You Really Got Me" as "the first hit song built around power chords."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalser19939_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalser19939-24">[24]</a></sup> The song has since been labeled as an early influence of the <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> genre, with critic <a href="/wiki/Denise_Sullivan" title="Denise Sullivan">Denise Sullivan</a> of <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> writing, <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."<sup id="cite_ref-amgreview_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amgreview-12">[12]</a></sup> However, Dave Davies has since rejected the idea that the song is heavy metal, saying "I've never really like that term, heavy metal. I think, in all humility, it was the first heavy guitar riff rock record. Just because of the sound—if you played it on a ukulele, it might not have been so powerful."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>The lyrics of the song are about lust and sex.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201464-4">[4]</a></sup> Dave Davies said of the song's lyrics, <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids. They're not going to wine and dine you, even if they knew how to chat you up. [They say] 'I want you—come here.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<p>"You Really Got Me" was released as the band's third single on 4 August 1964, backed with "It's All Right" (also spelled "It's Alright).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> Within three days of the single's release, "You Really Got Me" began to appear on local charts. Eventually, the song climbed to the top of the British charts, the band's first single to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> Ray Davies later claimed that, due to the single's high demand, Pye Records put all their other records on hold to solely produce copies of "You Really Got Me".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> Due to the high level of success the single achieved in the UK, a rush-release of "You Really Got Me" was put out in the US on 2 September 1964, despite being delayed from its initial release date of 26 August.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200434_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200434-26">[26]</a></sup> Although it did not enter the charts until 26 September, the record rose to number seven on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200434_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200434-26">[26]</a></sup> The song later appeared on the band's debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/Kinks_(album)" title="Kinks (album)">Kinks</a></i>, with the title of the American release of the album being changed to <i>You Really Got Me</i>. Plans for Ray to sing versions of the song in French, German, Spanish, and Japanese for their respective markets were proposed by Shel Talmy, but they never materialized.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200432_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200432-27">[27]</a></sup> The single B-side, "It's All Right", was included on the UK EP <i>Kinksize Hits</i> (1964).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup> It was first issued on an album in the US, where it was included on the Kinks' third album <i><a href="/wiki/Kinkdom" title="Kinkdom">Kinkdom</a></i> (1965).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup> Music writers have described the song as "shockingly different" to the Kinks' recorded work up to this point, and a "frenetic lost gem".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014-30">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUnterberger2002621_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUnterberger2002621-31">[31]</a></sup> The song is included on a 1998 CD reissue of the group's debut album.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUnterberger2002621_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUnterberger2002621-31">[31]</a></sup>
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<div class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style="">We were really surprised when 'You Really Got Me' was a hit. Why wasn't our last disc, '<a href="/wiki/You_Still_Want_Me" title="You Still Want Me">You Still Want Me</a>'? Because it wasn't any good. We didn't like it much ... We write for ourselves now.</div>
<p><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– Ray Davies<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup></cite>
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<p>Upon release, the single received a positive review from <i><a href="/wiki/Record_Mirror" title="Record Mirror">Record Mirror</a></i>, which said, "Highly promising group with strong guitar sound and a compact sort of vocal performance. Mid-tempo but bustling song should sell well."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Melody_Maker" title="Melody Maker">Melody Maker</a></i>, singer <a href="/wiki/Dave_Berry_(musician)" title="Dave Berry (musician)">Dave Berry</a> was featured in a blindfold test of the song, with Berry at first guessing the song was by the Kingsmen.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> He said, "It's fabulous, this one. I like these records that sound as if they've gone into a recording studio and done what they wanted to on the spot. It's a good chance of being a big hit."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup> The <i>Melody Maker</i> review had a lasting impact on Ray Davies, who said that Berry "had a few hits – so he mattered" and that Berry's belief that the band had "done what they wanted" had "said it all" for him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman200431_25-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman200431-25">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201470_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201470-32">[32]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Kinks' use of distorted guitar riffs continued with songs like "<a href="/wiki/All_Day_and_All_of_the_Night" title="All Day and All of the Night">All Day and All of the Night</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Tired_of_Waiting_for_You" title="Tired of Waiting for You">Tired of Waiting for You</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Set_Me_Free_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Set Me Free (The Kinks song)">Set Me Free</a>", among others. <a href="/wiki/Pete_Townshend" title="Pete Townshend">Pete Townshend</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">the Who</a>, a band also produced by Talmy at that time, has stated that their first single, "<a href="/wiki/I_Can%27t_Explain" title="I Can't Explain">I Can't Explain</a>", was influenced by the Kinks' work at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201479_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201479-33">[33]</a></sup> Other artists influenced by "You Really Got Me" include <a href="/wiki/Tom_Petty" title="Tom Petty">Tom Petty</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201472_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201472-34">[34]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Lydon" title="John Lydon">John Lydon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201451_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201451-35">[35]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Jackson_(musician)" title="Joe Jackson (musician)">Joe Jackson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJackson2000_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson2000-36">[36]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bell_(American_musician)" title="Chris Bell (American musician)">Chris Bell</a> of <a href="/wiki/Big_Star" title="Big Star">Big Star</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201472_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201472-34">[34]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a>, who, according to Dave Davies, described the song as "a landmark record".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>In 1999, "You Really Got Me" was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame" title="Grammy Hall of Fame">Grammy Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine placed the song at number 82 on their <a href="/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time">list of the 500 greatest songs of all time</a> and at number four on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup> In early 2005, the song was voted the best British song of the 1955–1965 decade in a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> radio poll.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_poll_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_poll-39">[39]</a></sup> In March 2005, <a href="/wiki/Q_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Q magazine"><i>Q</i> magazine</a> placed it at number nine in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.<sup id="cite_ref-q_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-q-40">[40]</a></sup> In 2009, it was named the 57th Greatest Hard Rock Song by <a href="/wiki/VH1" title="VH1">VH1</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VH1_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VH1-21">[21]</a></sup>
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<table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="background-color: khaki;">"You Really Got Me (live)"</th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">the Kinks</a></th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;">from the album <i><a href="/wiki/One_for_the_Road_(The_Kinks_album)" title="One for the Road (The Kinks album)">One for the Road</a></i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"<a href="/wiki/Attitude_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Attitude (The Kinks song)">Attitude</a>"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">29 October 1980<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1980-10-29</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">6 March 1979</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Memorial_Auditorium" title="Lowell Memorial Auditorium">Lowell Memorial Auditorium</a>, Massachusetts</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">3</span>:<span class="s">35</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Arista_Records" title="Arista Records">Arista</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">Ray Davies</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">The Kinks</a> US singles chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0;">"<a href="/wiki/Lola_(song)#Live_versions" title="Lola (song)">Lola (live)</a>" <br />(1980)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/wiki/Destroyer_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Destroyer (The Kinks song)">Destroyer</a>" <br />(1981)
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<p>Prior to its release, the Kinks performed "You Really Got Me" in some of their early concerts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup> It was a crowd favourite, with Ray Davies later claiming to feel a connection with the crowd as he performed the song.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup> Ray later said, "Our success came from playing [the song] live. When we played 'You Really Got Me' people actually took notice. They realised we had something original."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasted2011_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasted2011-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Kinks continued to perform successfully for over 30 years through many musical styles, but "You Really Got Me" remained a mainstay in concert.<sup id="cite_ref-amgreview_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amgreview-12">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman20048–341_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman20048–341-41">[41]</a></sup> During some shows, the song was played in a medley with its follow-up single "All Day and All of the Night," while in 1977, a performance on <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> featured a four-song medley of "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "<a href="/wiki/A_Well_Respected_Man" title="A Well Respected Man">A Well Respected Man</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Lola_(song)" title="Lola (song)">Lola</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004342-344_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004342-344-42">[42]</a></sup> In a live performance on the <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Lane_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Lane Show">Don Lane Show</a></i> in 1982, "You Really Got Me" was featured in a medley with the band's 1981 song, "<a href="/wiki/Destroyer_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Destroyer (The Kinks song)">Destroyer</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004344_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004344-43">[43]</a></sup> In 1984, Dave Davies claimed that, even after twenty years of performing "You Really Got Me," the track was "still fun to play live."<sup id="cite_ref-inthespotlight_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inthespotlight-44">[44]</a></sup>
</p><p>A live version of "You Really Got Me" was released on the band's 1980 live album, <i><a href="/wiki/One_for_the_Road_(The_Kinks_album)" title="One for the Road (The Kinks album)">One for the Road</a></i>. This version, following the minor success of the same album's live version of "<a href="/wiki/Lola_(song)#Live_versions" title="Lola (song)">Lola</a>", was released as a single in America, backed with the live take of <i><a href="/wiki/Low_Budget_(album)" title="Low Budget (album)">Low Budget's</a></i> "<a href="/wiki/Attitude_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Attitude (The Kinks song)">Attitude</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004244_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004244-45">[45]</a></sup> However, the single failed to chart.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004244_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004244-45">[45]</a></sup> This version was later included on the 1986 compilation album, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kinks_discography#Compilation_albums" title="The Kinks discography">Come Dancing with the Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977–1986</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004282_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004282-46">[46]</a></sup>
</p><p>Other live renditions of "You Really Got Me" have also been released. A version on <i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Kelvin_Hall" title="Live at Kelvin Hall">Live at Kelvin Hall</a></i> recorded at <a href="/wiki/Kelvin_Hall" title="Kelvin Hall">Kelvin Hall</a> in Glasgow, Scotland, was released in 1967, while a performance at the <a href="/wiki/Mann_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="Mann Center for the Performing Arts">Mann Music Center</a> in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, appeared on 1994's <i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Bone_(The_Kinks_album)" title="To the Bone (The Kinks album)">To the Bone</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004320_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004320-47">[47]</a></sup> The Davies brothers also performed a live version in Boston, Massachusetts with <a href="/wiki/The_Smithereens" title="The Smithereens">the Smithereens</a> in November 1991, which later appeared on the latter band's 1995 compilation album <i><a href="/wiki/Attack_of_the_Smithereens" title="Attack of the Smithereens">Attack of the Smithereens</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHinman2004336_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHinman2004336-48">[48]</a></sup> Both Ray and Dave Davies still perform the song in solo shows, generally as a closing number.
</p><p>In December 2015, Ray Davies joined brother Dave onstage at one of his concerts to perform "You Really Got Me".<sup id="cite_ref-rs_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rs-49">[49]</a></sup> The event marked the first time the brothers performed on stage together in nearly twenty years, sparking rumors of a possible Kinks reunion that were fulfilled in 2018 with announcements the Davies brothers were collaborating on new material.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">Australia<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">Belgium (<a href="/wiki/Ultratop" title="Ultratop">Ultratop 50</a> Wallonia)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Belgium_(Wallonia)_The_Kinks_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Belgium_(Wallonia)_The_Kinks-52">[52]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">Canada Top Singles (<i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Canadatopsingles_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Canadatopsingles_-53">[53]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">Finland (<a href="/wiki/Suomen_virallinen_lista" class="mw-redirect" title="Suomen virallinen lista">Suomen virallinen lista</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup>
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<td>40
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<td>16
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<th scope="row">Germany (<a href="/wiki/GfK_Entertainment_Charts" class="mw-redirect" title="GfK Entertainment Charts">Official German Charts</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Germany_The_Kinks_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Germany_The_Kinks-56">[56]</a></sup>
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<td style="text-align:center;">39
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<th scope="row">Sweden (<a href="/wiki/Kv%C3%A4llstoppen" class="mw-redirect" title="Kvällstoppen">Kvällstoppen</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">Sweden (<i>Tio i Topp</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a></sup>
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<td>8
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<th scope="row">Ireland (<a href="/wiki/Irish_Singles_Chart" title="Irish Singles Chart">IRMA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Ireland2_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Ireland2_-59">[59]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">UK (<a href="/wiki/Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">Official Charts Company</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-UK_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK-60">[60]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_The_Kinks_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_The_Kinks-61">[61]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Cashbox_(magazine)" title="Cashbox (magazine)"><i>Cash Box</i></a> Top 100<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">UK Singles (Official Charts Company)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Year-End" title="Billboard Year-End"><i>Billboard</i> Year-End</a><sup id="cite_ref-House_of_Speak_Easy_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House_of_Speak_Easy-64">[64]</a></sup>
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<th scope="row">United Kingdom (<a href="/wiki/British_Phonographic_Industry" title="British Phonographic Industry">BPI</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-United_KingdomKinksYou_Really_Got_MesingleCertRef_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-United_KingdomKinksYou_Really_Got_MesingleCertRef-65">[65]</a></sup>
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<td>400,000<sup><img alt="double-dagger" src="/media/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Double-dagger-14-plain.png" decoding="async" width="9" height="14" data-file-width="9" data-file-height="14" /></sup>
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<table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="background-color: khaki;">"You Really Got Me"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Halen_-_You_Really_Got_Me.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Van Halen - You Really Got Me.jpg" src="/media/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Van_Halen_-_You_Really_Got_Me.jpg/220px-Van_Halen_-_You_Really_Got_Me.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" srcset="/media/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Van_Halen_-_You_Really_Got_Me.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="314" data-file-height="316" /></a></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by <a href="/wiki/Van_Halen" title="Van Halen">Van Halen</a></th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;">from the album <i><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_(album)" title="Van Halen (album)">Van Halen</a></i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"Atomic Punk"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">28 January 1978<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1978-01-28</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">September–October 1977</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">Hard rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a></li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">2</span>:<span class="s">35</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Bros.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Templeman" title="Ted Templeman">Ted Templeman</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen" title="Van Halen">Van Halen</a> singles chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding:.2em .1em;">"<b>You Really Got Me</b>" <br />(1978)
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/wiki/Runnin%27_with_the_Devil" title="Runnin' with the Devil">Runnin' with the Devil</a>" <br />(1978)
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</p><p>The American <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/Van_Halen" title="Van Halen">Van Halen</a> released a cover of "You Really Got Me" for their 1978 debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_(album)" title="Van Halen (album)">Van Halen</a></i>. As the band's first single, it was a popular radio hit that helped jump-start the band's career,<sup id="cite_ref-HallFame_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HallFame-66">[66]</a></sup> as it had done for <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">the Kinks</a> 14 years earlier. This version, which was cited by <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Van_Halen" title="Eddie Van Halen">Eddie Van Halen</a> as an "updated" version of the original, featured "histrionic" guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen and "vocal shenanigans" by <a href="/wiki/David_Lee_Roth" title="David Lee Roth">David Lee Roth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-amgreview_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amgreview-12">[12]</a></sup> The song had been played by the band live for years before its studio release. On the radio, it is often featured with "<a href="/wiki/Eruption_(instrumental)" title="Eruption (instrumental)">Eruption</a>", the instrumental that precedes it on the album, as an intro.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky201039_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolinsky201039-67">[67]</a></sup>
</p><p>The song was released as a single as a result of an encounter between Eddie Van Halen and members of the band <a href="/wiki/Angel_(American_band)" title="Angel (American band)">Angel</a>. Eddie Van Halen and Angel drummer Barry Brandt had both been bragging about their new material to one another, resulting in Eddie Van Halen showing a demo of "You Really Got Me" to Brandt. On the following day, the band's producer, <a href="/wiki/Ted_Templeman" title="Ted Templeman">Ted Templeman</a> told Van Halen that Angel was recording their own cover of "You Really Got Me" to release before Van Halen's version. As a result, the song was rush-released as a single before Angel could do so.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101-68">[68]</a></sup>
</p><p>Eddie Van Halen later expressed dissatisfaction with the use of "You Really Got Me" as the band's debut single. He said, "It kind of bummed me out that Ted [Templeman] wanted our first single to be someone else's tune. I would have maybe picked "Jamie's Cryin<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", just because it was our own."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101-68">[68]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Kinks' Dave Davies has claimed to dislike Van Halen's rendition of the song, saying "There's the thing: good art isn't always about having the comfiest technique. I shouldn't encourage him, but I'm sure Eddie Van Halen played better when he was drunk." He also told of how a concert-goer approached him after a live show and congratulated him on performing a "great cover of the Van Halen song."<sup id="cite_ref-blabber_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blabber-69">[69]</a></sup> Ray Davies, on the other hand, claimed to like the track because it made him laugh.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014244_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014244-70">[70]</a></sup>
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<td>Australia (<a href="/wiki/Kent_Music_Report" title="Kent Music Report">Kent Music Report</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-aus_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aus-71">[71]</a></sup>
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<td>Canadian <a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)"><i>RPM</i> Top Singles</a><sup id="cite_ref-canada_vh_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-canada_vh-72">[72]</a></sup>
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<td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-allmusic_vh_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allmusic_vh-73">[73]</a></sup>
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<td align="center">36
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=You_Really_Got_Me&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_UK_Singles_Chart_number_ones_of_the_1960s" title="List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s">List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s</a></li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=You_Really_Got_Me&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-66-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic201465-66_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJovanovic2014">Jovanovic 2014</a>, pp. 65-66.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5_Things-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5_Things_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFGrow" class="citation web cs1">Grow, Kory. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/5-things-we-learned-from-jimmy-pages-siriusxm-interview-20141107">"5 Things We Learned from Jimmy Page's SiriusXM Interview"</a>. <i>Rolling Stone</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Rolling+Stone&rft.atitle=5+Things+We+Learned+from+Jimmy+Page%27s+SiriusXM+Interview&rft.aulast=Grow&rft.aufirst=Kory&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2F5-things-we-learned-from-jimmy-pages-siriusxm-interview-20141107&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-sc_Germany_The_Kinks-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sc_Germany_The_Kinks_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-12225">Offiziellecharts.de – The Kinks – You Really Got Me"</a> (in German). <a href="/wiki/GfK_Entertainment_Charts" class="mw-redirect" title="GfK Entertainment Charts">GfK Entertainment Charts</a>. </span>
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<li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFHallberg193" class="citation book cs1">Hallberg, Eric (193). <i>Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975</i>. Drift Musik. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9163021404" title="Special:BookSources/9163021404"><bdi>9163021404</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Eric+Hallberg+presenterar+Kv%C3%A4llstoppen+i+P+3%3A+Sveriges+radios+topplista+%C3%B6ver+veckans+20+mest+s%C3%A5lda+skivor+10.+7.+1962+-+19.+8.+1975&rft.pub=Drift+Musik&rft.date=193&rft.isbn=9163021404&rft.aulast=Hallberg&rft.aufirst=Eric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFHallbergHenningsson1998" class="citation book cs1">Hallberg, Eric; Henningsson, Ulf (1998). <i>Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74</i>. Premium Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/919727125X" title="Special:BookSources/919727125X"><bdi>919727125X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Eric+Hallberg%2C+Ulf+Henningsson+presenterar+Tio+i+topp+med+de+utslagna+p%C3%A5+f%C3%B6rs%C3%B6k%3A+1961+-+74&rft.pub=Premium+Publishing&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=919727125X&rft.aulast=Hallberg&rft.aufirst=Eric&rft.au=Henningsson%2C+Ulf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-sc_Ireland2_-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sc_Ireland2_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement?page=1&search_type=title&placement=You+Really+Got+Me">The Irish Charts – Search Results – You Really Got Me"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Irish_Singles_Chart" title="Irish Singles Chart">Irish Singles Chart</a>. </span>
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<li id="cite_note-UK-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-UK_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/kinks/">"Kinks"</a>. Official Charts Company<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 July</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Kinks&rft.pub=Official+Charts+Company&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.officialcharts.com%2Fartist%2F_%2Fkinks%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_The_Kinks-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_The_Kinks_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.billboard.com/music/The-Kinks/chart-history/HSI">"The Kinks Chart History (Hot 100)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>. </span>
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<li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19641205.html">"Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending December 5, 1964"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Cashbox_(magazine)" title="Cashbox (magazine)">Cash Box magazine</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cash+Box+magazine&rft.atitle=Cash+Box+Top+100+Singles+%E2%80%93+Week+ending+December+5%2C+1964&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcashboxmagazine.com%2Farchives%2F60s_files%2F19641205.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1964.shtml">"Top 100 1964 - UK Music Charts"</a>. <i>www.uk-charts.top-source.info</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.uk-charts.top-source.info&rft.atitle=Top+100+1964+-+UK+Music+Charts&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uk-charts.top-source.info%2Ftop-100-1964.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-House_of_Speak_Easy-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-House_of_Speak_Easy_64-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFArrowsmith" class="citation web cs1">Arrowsmith, Charles. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.houseofspeakeasy.org/pj-orourke/">"THE BOOM YEARS: P.J. O'ROURKE ON WHAT WENT WRONG… AND RIGHT"</a>. <i>House of Speak Easy</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 April</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=House+of+Speak+Easy&rft.atitle=THE+BOOM+YEARS%3A+P.J.+O%27ROURKE+ON+WHAT+WENT+WRONG%E2%80%A6+AND+RIGHT&rft.aulast=Arrowsmith&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.houseofspeakeasy.org%2Fpj-orourke%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-United_KingdomKinksYou_Really_Got_MesingleCertRef-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-United_KingdomKinksYou_Really_Got_MesingleCertRef_65-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/14166-1446-1">"British single certifications – Kinks – You Really Got Me"</a>. <a href="/wiki/British_Phonographic_Industry" title="British Phonographic Industry">British Phonographic Industry</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=British+single+certifications+%E2%80%93+Kinks+%E2%80%93+You+Really+Got+Me&rft.pub=British+Phonographic+Industry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpi.co.uk%2Faward%2F14166-1446-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-HallFame-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HallFame_66-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/van-halen">"Van Halen - Inductee 2007"</a>. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 12 March 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2009.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETolinsky201039-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky201039_67-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolinsky2010">Tolinsky 2010</a>, p. 39.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101_68-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolinsky2010101_68-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolinsky2010">Tolinsky 2010</a>, p. 101.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-blabber-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-blabber_69-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902">"Dave Davies Slams Van Halen's The Kinks Cover"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100806173740/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143902">Archived</a> 6 August 2010 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Blabbermouth. 2 August 2010.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014244-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanovic2014244_70-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJovanovic2014">Jovanovic 2014</a>, p. 244.</span>
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<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFUnterberger2002" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richie_Unterberger" title="Richie Unterberger">Unterberger, Richie</a> (2002). "<i>Kinks</i>". In <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bogdanov_(editor)" title="Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)">Bogdanov, Vladimir</a>; Woodstra, Chris; <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Thomas_Erlewine" title="Stephen Thomas Erlewine">Erlewine, Stephen Thomas</a> (eds.). <i>All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul</i>. San Francisco: <a href="/wiki/Backbeat_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Backbeat Books">Backbeat Books</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87930-653-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-87930-653-X"><bdi>0-87930-653-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Kinks&rft.btitle=All+Music+Guide+to+Rock%3A+The+Definitive+Guide+to+Rock%2C+Pop%2C+and+Soul&rft.place=San+Francisco&rft.pub=Backbeat+Books&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-87930-653-X&rft.aulast=Unterberger&rft.aufirst=Richie&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFWalser1993" class="citation book cs1">Walser, Robert (1993). <span class="cs1-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/runningwithdevil00wals"><i>Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University_Press" title="Wesleyan University Press">Wesleyan University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8195-6260-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8195-6260-2"><bdi>0-8195-6260-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Running+with+the+Devil%3A+Power%2C+Gender%2C+and+Madness+in+Heavy+Metal+Music&rft.pub=Wesleyan+University+Press&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-8195-6260-2&rft.aulast=Walser&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frunningwithdevil00wals&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Van Halen Guitar Anthology</i>. Van Nuys, California: Alfred. 2006. pp. 33–9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780897246729" title="Special:BookSources/9780897246729"><bdi>9780897246729</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.worldcat.org/oclc/605214049">605214049</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Van+Halen+Guitar+Anthology&rft.place=Van+Nuys%2C+California&rft.pages=33-9&rft.pub=Alfred&rft.date=2006&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F605214049&rft.isbn=9780897246729&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYou+Really+Got+Me" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ray_Davies" title="Ray Davies">Ray Davies</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="/wiki/Dave_Davies" title="Dave Davies">Dave Davies</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="/wiki/Mick_Avory" title="Mick Avory">Mick Avory</a></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Quaife" title="Pete Quaife">Pete Quaife</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/John_Dalton_(musician)" title="John Dalton (musician)">John Dalton</a></li>
<li>John Gosling</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Pyle" title="Andy Pyle">Andy Pyle</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Rodford" title="Jim Rodford">Jim Rodford</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Gibbons_(musician)" title="Ian Gibbons (musician)">Ian Gibbons</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Henrit" title="Bob Henrit">Bob Henrit</a></li>
<li>Gordon John Edwards</li>
<li>Mark Haley</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinks_(album)" title="Kinks (album)">Kinks</a></i> (1964)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinda_Kinks" title="Kinda Kinks">Kinda Kinks</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kink_Kontroversy" title="The Kink Kontroversy">The Kink Kontroversy</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Face_to_Face_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Face to Face (The Kinks album)">Face to Face</a></i> (1966)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Something_Else_by_the_Kinks" title="Something Else by the Kinks">Something Else</a></i> (1967)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kinks_Are_the_Village_Green_Preservation_Society" title="The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society">Village Green Preservation Society</a></i> (1968)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Arthur_(Or_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire)" title="Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)">Arthur</a></i> (1969)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Lola_Versus_Powerman_and_the_Moneygoround,_Part_One" title="Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One">Lola Versus Powerman</a></i> (1970)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Percy_(soundtrack)" class="mw-redirect" title="Percy (soundtrack)">Percy</a></i> (1971)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hillbillies" title="Muswell Hillbillies">Muswell Hillbillies</a></i> (1971)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Everybody%27s_in_Show-Biz" title="Everybody's in Show-Biz">Everybody's in Show-Biz</a></i> (1972)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Preservation_Act_1" title="Preservation Act 1">Preservation Act 1</a></i> (1973)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Preservation_Act_2" title="Preservation Act 2">Preservation Act 2</a></i> (1974)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Soap_Opera_(album)" title="Soap Opera (album)">Soap Opera</a></i> (1975)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Schoolboys_in_Disgrace" title="Schoolboys in Disgrace">Schoolboys in Disgrace</a></i> (1975)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Sleepwalker_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Sleepwalker (The Kinks album)">Sleepwalker</a></i> (1977)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Misfits_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Misfits (The Kinks album)">Misfits</a></i> (1978)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Low_Budget_(album)" title="Low Budget (album)">Low Budget</a></i> (1979)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Give_the_People_What_They_Want_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Give the People What They Want (The Kinks album)">Give the People What They Want</a></i> (1981)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/State_of_Confusion" title="State of Confusion">State of Confusion</a></i> (1983)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Word_of_Mouth_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Word of Mouth (The Kinks album)">Word of Mouth</a></i> (1984)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Think_Visual" title="Think Visual">Think Visual</a></i> (1986)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/UK_Jive" title="UK Jive">UK Jive</a></i> (1989)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Phobia_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Phobia (The Kinks album)">Phobia</a></i> (1993)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Kelvin_Hall" title="Live at Kelvin Hall">Live at Kelvin Hall</a></i> (1968)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/One_for_the_Road_(The_Kinks_album)" title="One for the Road (The Kinks album)">One for the Road</a></i> (1980)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Live:_The_Road" title="Live: The Road">Live: The Road</a></i> (1988)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Bone_(The_Kinks_album)" title="To the Bone (The Kinks album)">To the Bone</a></i> (1994/1996)</li>
<li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_Sessions:_1964-1977&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BBC Sessions: 1964-1977 (page does not exist)">BBC Sessions: 1964-1977</a></i> (2001)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">EPs</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinksize_Session" title="Kinksize Session">Kinksize Session</a></i> (1964)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Kwyet_Kinks" title="Kwyet Kinks">Kwyet Kinks</a></i> (1965)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinks-Size" title="Kinks-Size">Kinks-Size</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinkdom" title="Kinkdom">Kinkdom</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits!" title="Greatest Hits!">Greatest Hits!</a></i> (1966)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Well_Respected_Kinks" title="Well Respected Kinks">Well Respected Kinks</a></i> (1966)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunny_Afternoon_(album)" title="Sunny Afternoon (album)">Sunny Afternoon</a></i> (1967)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kink_Kronikles" title="The Kink Kronikles">The Kink Kronikles</a></i> (1972)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Lost_Kinks_Album" title="The Great Lost Kinks Album">The Great Lost Kinks Album</a></i> (1973)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Come_Dancing_with_The_Kinks" title="Come Dancing with The Kinks">Come Dancing with The Kinks</a></i> (1986)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kinks_Are_Well_Respected_Men" title="The Kinks Are Well Respected Men">The Kinks Are Well Respected Men</a></i> (1987)</li>
<li><i>Lost & Found (1986–1989)</i> (1991)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Collection_(The_Kinks_album)" title="The Ultimate Collection (The Kinks album)">The Ultimate Collection</a></i> (2002)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Picture_Book_(The_Kinks_album)" title="Picture Book (The Kinks album)">Picture Book</a></i> (2008)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Sunset:_The_Very_Best_of_The_Kinks_%26_Ray_Davies" title="Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies">Waterloo Sunset: The Very Best of The Kinks & Ray Davies</a></i> (2012)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Essential_Kinks" title="The Essential Kinks">The Essential Kinks</a></i> (2014)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Unreleased projects</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Four_More_Respected_Gentlemen" title="Four More Respected Gentlemen">Four More Respected Gentlemen</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Hole_in_the_Sock_of_(Dave_Davies)" title="A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)">A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)</a></i></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Kinks_band_members" title="List of the Kinks band members">Band members</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Kinks_band_members#Session_performers" title="List of the Kinks band members">Session performers</a>: <a href="/wiki/Clem_Cattini" title="Clem Cattini">Clem Cattini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Graham_(musician)" title="Bobby Graham (musician)">Bobby Graham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins" title="Nicky Hopkins">Nicky Hopkins</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Konk_(recording_studio)" title="Konk (recording studio)">Konk</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/The_Kast_Off_Kinks" title="The Kast Off Kinks">The Kast Off Kinks</a></li>
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<li><i><a href="/wiki/X-Ray_(book)" title="X-Ray (book)">X-Ray</a></i></li>
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<li><i><a href="/wiki/Give_the_People_What_We_Want:_Songs_of_The_Kinks" title="Give the People What We Want: Songs of The Kinks">Give the People What We Want: Songs of The Kinks</a></i></li>
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<dl><dt>1964</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Long_Tall_Sally" title="Long Tall Sally">Long Tall Sally</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/You_Still_Want_Me" title="You Still Want Me">You Still Want Me</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">You Really Got Me</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/All_Day_and_All_of_the_Night" title="All Day and All of the Night">All Day and All of the Night</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1965</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Tired_of_Waiting_for_You" title="Tired of Waiting for You">Tired of Waiting for You</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Ev%27rybody%27s_Gonna_Be_Happy" title="Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy">Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Set_Me_Free_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Set Me Free (The Kinks song)">Set Me Free</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/See_My_Friends" title="See My Friends">See My Friends</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Who%27ll_Be_the_Next_in_Line" title="Who'll Be the Next in Line">Who'll Be the Next in Line</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/A_Well_Respected_Man" title="A Well Respected Man">A Well Respected Man</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Till_the_End_of_the_Day" title="Till the End of the Day">Till the End of the Day</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1966</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Dedicated_Follower_of_Fashion" title="Dedicated Follower of Fashion">Dedicated Follower of Fashion</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sunny_Afternoon" title="Sunny Afternoon">Sunny Afternoon</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Dead_End_Street_(song)" title="Dead End Street (song)">Dead End Street</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1967</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Mister_Pleasant" title="Mister Pleasant">Mister Pleasant</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Sunset" title="Waterloo Sunset">Waterloo Sunset</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Death_of_a_Clown" title="Death of a Clown">Death of a Clown</a>" <small>(Dave Davies solo)</small></dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Autumn_Almanac" title="Autumn Almanac">Autumn Almanac</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Susannah%27s_Still_Alive" title="Susannah's Still Alive">Susannah's Still Alive</a>" <small>(Dave Davies solo)</small></dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1968</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Wonderboy_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Wonderboy (The Kinks song)">Wonderboy</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Days_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Days (The Kinks song)">Days</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County_(song)" title="Lincoln County (song)">Lincoln County</a>" <small>(Dave Davies solo)</small></dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1969</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Starstruck_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Starstruck (The Kinks song)">Starstruck</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Hold_My_Hand_(Dave_Davies_song)" title="Hold My Hand (Dave Davies song)">Hold My Hand</a>" <small>(Dave Davies solo)</small></dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Plastic_Man_(song)" title="Plastic Man (song)">Plastic Man</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Drivin%27_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Drivin' (The Kinks song)">Drivin'</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/The_Village_Green_Preservation_Society" title="The Village Green Preservation Society">The Village Green Preservation Society</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Shangri-La_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Shangri-La (The Kinks song)">Shangri-La</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Victoria_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Victoria (The Kinks song)">Victoria</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1970</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Lola_(song)" title="Lola (song)">Lola</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Apeman_(song)" title="Apeman (song)">Apeman</a>"</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">1970s singles<br />(UK & US)</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<dl><dt>1971</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/God%27s_Children_(The_Kinks_song)" title="God's Children (The Kinks song)">God's Children</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Man" title="20th Century Man">20th Century Man</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1972</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Supersonic_Rocket_Ship" title="Supersonic Rocket Ship">Supersonic Rocket Ship</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Celluloid_Heroes" title="Celluloid Heroes">Celluloid Heroes</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1973</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/One_of_the_Survivors" title="One of the Survivors">One of the Survivors</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sitting_in_the_Midday_Sun" title="Sitting in the Midday Sun">Sitting in the Midday Sun</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Lady_Genevieve" title="Sweet Lady Genevieve">Sweet Lady Genevieve</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Good_Times_Gone" title="Where Have All the Good Times Gone">Where Have All the Good Times Gone</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1974</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Money_Talks_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Money Talks (The Kinks song)">Money Talks</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Mirror_of_Love" title="Mirror of Love">Mirror of Love</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Mirror_of_Love#Band_Version" title="Mirror of Love">Mirror of Love</a>" <small>(band version)</small></dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Holiday_Romance" title="Holiday Romance">Holiday Romance</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Preservation_(song)" title="Preservation (song)">Preservation</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1975</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Everybody%27s_a_Star_(Starmaker)" title="Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)">Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Ducks_on_the_Wall" title="Ducks on the Wall">Ducks on the Wall</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Stop_the_Music" title="You Can't Stop the Music">You Can't Stop the Music</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1976</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/I%27m_in_Disgrace" title="I'm in Disgrace">I'm in Disgrace</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/No_More_Looking_Back" title="No More Looking Back">No More Looking Back</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1977</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sleepwalker_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Sleepwalker (The Kinks song)">Sleepwalker</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Juke_Box_Music" title="Juke Box Music">Juke Box Music</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Father_Christmas_(song)" title="Father Christmas (song)">Father Christmas</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1978</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/A_Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Fantasy" title="A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy">A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Live_Life" title="Live Life">Live Life</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Black_Messiah_(song)" title="Black Messiah (song)">Black Messiah</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1979</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/(Wish_I_Could_Fly_Like)_Superman" title="(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman">(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/A_Gallon_of_Gas" title="A Gallon of Gas">A Gallon of Gas</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Catch_Me_Now_I%27m_Falling" title="Catch Me Now I'm Falling">Catch Me Now I'm Falling</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Moving_Pictures_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Moving Pictures (The Kinks song)">Moving Pictures</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Pressure_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Pressure (The Kinks song)">Pressure</a>"</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">1980s singles<br />(UK & US)</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<dl><dt>1980</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Lola_(song)" title="Lola (song)">Lola</a>" (live)</dd>
<dd>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">You Really Got Me</a>" (live)</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1981</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Better_Things_(song)" title="Better Things (song)">Better Things</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Destroyer_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Destroyer (The Kinks song)">Destroyer</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Predictable_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Predictable (The Kinks song)">Predictable</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1982</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Come_Dancing_(song)" title="Come Dancing (song)">Come Dancing</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1983</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Forget_to_Dance" title="Don't Forget to Dance">Don't Forget to Dance</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1984</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Good_Day_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Good Day (The Kinks song)">Good Day</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Do_It_Again_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Do It Again (The Kinks song)">Do It Again</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1985</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Living_on_a_Thin_Line" title="Living on a Thin Line">Living on a Thin Line</a>" <small>(radio promo only)</small></dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Summer%27s_Gone" title="Summer's Gone">Summer's Gone</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1986</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Cities" title="Rock 'n' Roll Cities">Rock 'n' Roll Cities</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/How_Are_You" title="How Are You">How Are You</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1987</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Lost_and_Found_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Lost and Found (The Kinks song)">Lost and Found</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1988</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/The_Road_(song)" title="The Road (song)">The Road</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1989</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Down_All_the_Days_(Till_1992)" title="Down All the Days (Till 1992)">Down All the Days (Till 1992)</a>"</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1990</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/How_Do_I_Get_Close" title="How Do I Get Close">How Do I Get Close</a>"</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">1990s singles<br />(UK & US)</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<dl><dt>1993</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Only_a_Dream_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Only a Dream (The Kinks song)">Only a Dream</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Scattered_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Scattered (The Kinks song)">Scattered</a>"</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Other singles<br />(non-UK/US)</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<dl><dt>1966</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Dandy_(song)" title="Dandy (song)">Dandy</a>" (Europe)</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1969</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Picture_Book_(song)" title="Picture Book (song)">Picture Book</a>" (Australia)</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Australia_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Australia (The Kinks song)">Australia</a>" (Australia)</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1983</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/State_of_Confusion_(song)" title="State of Confusion (song)">State of Confusion</a>" (Germany)</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>1991</dt>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Did_Ya" title="Did Ya">Did Ya</a>" (Europe)</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<dl><dd>"<a href="/wiki/So_Mystifying" title="So Mystifying">So Mystifying</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Bald_Headed_Woman" title="Bald Headed Woman">Bald Headed Woman</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Stop_Your_Sobbing" title="Stop Your Sobbing">Stop Your Sobbing</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Street#The_Kinks_version" title="Dancing in the Street">Dancing in the Street</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/I_Need_You_(The_Kinks_song)" title="I Need You (The Kinks song)">I Need You</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/I_Go_to_Sleep" title="I Go to Sleep">I Go to Sleep</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Not_Like_Everybody_Else" title="I'm Not Like Everybody Else">I'm Not Like Everybody Else</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Big_Black_Smoke" title="Big Black Smoke">Big Black Smoke</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Party_Line_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Party Line (The Kinks song)">Party Line</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Rosy_Won%27t_You_Please_Come_Home" title="Rosy Won't You Please Come Home">Rosy Won't You Please Come Home</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Love_Me_Till_the_Sun_Shines" title="Love Me Till the Sun Shines">Love Me Till the Sun Shines</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/David_Watts_(song)" title="David Watts (song)">David Watts</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Two_Sisters_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Two Sisters (The Kinks song)">Two Sisters</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Polly_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Polly (The Kinks song)">Polly</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/She%27s_Got_Everything_(The_Kinks_song)" title="She's Got Everything (The Kinks song)">She's Got Everything</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Do_You_Remember_Walter%3F" title="Do You Remember Walter?">Do You Remember Walter?</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Johnny_Thunder_(song)" title="Johnny Thunder (song)">Johnny Thunder</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Last_of_the_Steam-Powered_Trains" title="Last of the Steam-Powered Trains">Last of the Steam-Powered Trains</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Big_Sky_(song)" title="Big Sky (song)">Big Sky</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sitting_by_the_Riverside" title="Sitting by the Riverside">Sitting by the Riverside</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm_(song)" title="Animal Farm (song)">Animal Farm</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Village_Green_(song)" title="Village Green (song)">Village Green</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Phenomenal_Cat" title="Phenomenal Cat">Phenomenal Cat</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/All_of_My_Friends_Were_There" title="All of My Friends Were There">All of My Friends Were There</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Wicked_Annabella" title="Wicked Annabella">Wicked Annabella</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Monica_(song)" title="Monica (song)">Monica</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/People_Take_Pictures_of_Each_Other" title="People Take Pictures of Each Other">People Take Pictures of Each Other</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Mews" title="Berkeley Mews">Berkeley Mews</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Mr._Churchill_Says" title="Mr. Churchill Says">Mr. Churchill Says</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Strangers_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Strangers (The Kinks song)">Strangers</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/This_Time_Tomorrow_(song)" title="This Time Tomorrow (song)">This Time Tomorrow</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Rats_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Rats (The Kinks song)">Rats</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Got_to_Be_Free" title="Got to Be Free">Got to Be Free</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Have_a_Cuppa_Tea" title="Have a Cuppa Tea">Have a Cuppa Tea</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_U.S.A." title="Oklahoma U.S.A.">Oklahoma U.S.A.</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hillbilly" title="Muswell Hillbilly">Muswell Hillbilly</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Sitting_in_My_Hotel" title="Sitting in My Hotel">Sitting in My Hotel</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/The_Hard_Way_(The_Kinks_song)" title="The Hard Way (The Kinks song)">The Hard Way</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Life_Goes_On_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Life Goes On (The Kinks song)">Life Goes On</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Misfits_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Misfits (The Kinks song)">Misfits</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Attitude_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Attitude (The Kinks song)">Attitude</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Low_Budget_(song)" title="Low Budget (song)">Low Budget</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Give_the_People_What_They_Want_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Give the People What They Want (The Kinks song)">Give the People What They Want</a>"</dd>
<dd>"<a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Gold_(The_Kinks_song)" title="Heart of Gold (The Kinks song)">Heart of Gold</a>"</dd></dl>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Van_Halen" title="Eddie Van Halen">Eddie Van Halen</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Van_Halen" title="Alex Van Halen">Alex Van Halen</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/David_Lee_Roth" title="David Lee Roth">David Lee Roth</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Anthony_(musician)" title="Michael Anthony (musician)">Michael Anthony</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Hagar" title="Sammy Hagar">Sammy Hagar</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Cherone" title="Gary Cherone">Gary Cherone</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Van_Halen" title="Wolfgang Van Halen">Wolfgang Van Halen</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_(album)" title="Van Halen (album)">Van Halen</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_II" title="Van Halen II">Van Halen II</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Women_and_Children_First" title="Women and Children First">Women and Children First</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Fair_Warning_(Van_Halen_album)" title="Fair Warning (Van Halen album)">Fair Warning</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Diver_Down" title="Diver Down">Diver Down</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/1984_(Van_Halen_album)" title="1984 (Van Halen album)">1984</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/5150_(album)" title="5150 (album)">5150</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/OU812" title="OU812">OU812</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Unlawful_Carnal_Knowledge" title="For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge">For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Balance_(Van_Halen_album)" title="Balance (Van Halen album)">Balance</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_III" title="Van Halen III">Van Halen III</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Different_Kind_of_Truth" title="A Different Kind of Truth">A Different Kind of Truth</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Best_Of_%E2%80%93_Volume_I_(Van_Halen_album)" title="Best Of – Volume I (Van Halen album)">Best Of – Volume I</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_(Van_Halen_album)" title="The Best of Both Worlds (Van Halen album)">The Best of Both Worlds</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Live:_Right_Here,_Right_Now" title="Live: Right Here, Right Now">Live: Right Here, Right Now</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Dome_Live_in_Concert" title="Tokyo Dome Live in Concert">Tokyo Dome Live in Concert</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Really_Got_Me#Van_Halen_version" title="You Really Got Me">You Really Got Me</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Runnin%27_with_the_Devil" title="Runnin' with the Devil">Runnin' with the Devil</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_Talkin%27_%27bout_Love" title="Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love">Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Dance_the_Night_Away_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Dance the Night Away (Van Halen song)">Dance the Night Away</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Somebody_Get_Me_a_Doctor" title="Somebody Get Me a Doctor">Somebody Get Me a Doctor</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Girls_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Beautiful Girls (Van Halen song)">Beautiful Girls</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/And_the_Cradle_Will_Rock..." title="And the Cradle Will Rock...">And the Cradle Will Rock...</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/So_This_Is_Love%3F_(song)" title="So This Is Love? (song)">So This Is Love?</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Unchained_(song)" title="Unchained (song)">Unchained</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Oh,_Pretty_Woman" title="Oh, Pretty Woman">(Oh) Pretty Woman</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Street" title="Dancing in the Street">Dancing in the Street</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Good_Times_Gone" title="Where Have All the Good Times Gone">Where Have All the Good Times Gone!</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Jump_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Jump (Van Halen song)">Jump</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Wait" title="I'll Wait">I'll Wait</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Panama_(song)" title="Panama (song)">Panama</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Hot_for_Teacher" title="Hot for Teacher">Hot for Teacher</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Why_Can%27t_This_Be_Love" title="Why Can't This Be Love">Why Can't This Be Love</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Dreams_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Dreams (Van Halen song)">Dreams</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Love_Walks_In" title="Love Walks In">Love Walks In</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/When_It%27s_Love" title="When It's Love">When It's Love</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Black_and_Blue_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Black and Blue (Van Halen song)">Black and Blue</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Finish_What_Ya_Started" title="Finish What Ya Started">Finish What Ya Started</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Poundcake_(song)" title="Poundcake (song)">Poundcake</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Top_of_the_World_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Top of the World (Van Halen song)">Top of the World</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Right_Now_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Right Now (Van Halen song)">Right Now</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Tell_Me_(What_Love_Can_Do)" title="Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)">Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Can%27t_Stop_Lovin%27_You" title="Can't Stop Lovin' You">Can't Stop Lovin' You</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Amsterdam_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Amsterdam (Van Halen song)">Amsterdam</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Humans_Being" title="Humans Being">Humans Being</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Me_Wise_Magic" title="Me Wise Magic">Me Wise Magic</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Can%27t_Get_This_Stuff_No_More" title="Can't Get This Stuff No More">Can't Get This Stuff No More</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Without_You_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Without You (Van Halen song)">Without You</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Tattoo_(Van_Halen_song)" title="Tattoo (Van Halen song)">Tattoo</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/She%27s_the_Woman" title="She's the Woman">She's the Woman</a>"</li></ul>
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<ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Eruption_(instrumental)" title="Eruption (instrumental)">Eruption</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="/wiki/Little_Guitars" title="Little Guitars">Little Guitars</a>"</li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_Without_a_Net_(Van_Halen_video)" title="Live Without a Net (Van Halen video)">Live Without a Net</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Live:_Right_Here,_Right_Now#Home_video" title="Live: Right Here, Right Now">Live: Right Here, Right Now</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Video_Hits_Volume_I" title="Video Hits Volume I">Video Hits Volume I</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Tours</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_1978_World_Tour" title="Van Halen 1978 World Tour">1978 World Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/5150_Tour" title="5150 Tour">5150 Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/For_Unlawful_Carnal_Knowledge_Tour" title="For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour">For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Summer_Tour_2004_(Van_Halen)" title="Summer Tour 2004 (Van Halen)">Summer Tour 2004</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_2007%E2%80%932008_North_American_Tour" title="Van Halen 2007–2008 North American Tour">2007–2008 North American Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/A_Different_Kind_of_Truth_Tour" title="A Different Kind of Truth Tour">A Different Kind of Truth Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_2015_North_American_Tour" title="Van Halen 2015 North American Tour">2015 North American Tour</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: #EEEEEE;">Related</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Van_Halen_discography" title="Van Halen discography">Discography</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Van_Halen" title="List of awards and nominations received by Van Halen">Awards</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Guitar_Hero:_Van_Halen" title="Guitar Hero: Van Halen">Guitar Hero: Van Halen</a></i></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/5150_Studios" title="5150 Studios">5150 Studios</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Frankenstrat" title="Frankenstrat">Frankenstrat</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Planet_Us" title="Planet Us">Planet Us</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Chickenfoot" title="Chickenfoot">Chickenfoot</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Hagar_and_the_Circle" title="Sammy Hagar and the Circle">Sammy Hagar and the Circle</a></li></ul>
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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/MBW_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MBW (identifier)">MBW</a> work: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://musicbrainz.org/work/d757ab79-30ea-3de7-9d69-c4cd2d89e630">d757ab79-30ea-3de7-9d69-c4cd2d89e630</a></span></span></li></ul>
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