You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks

Nick Hasted's illuminating biography of The Kinks draws on years of in-depth interviews with the band's creative siblings, Ray and Dave Davies, as well as new ones conducted with them especially for this book.

Asl interviewed are Mick Avory, Chrissie Hynde, Tom Robinson, Julien Temple and Wim Wenders. It all throws light on a turbulent 30-year band career scarred by suicide attempts, on-stage fights, recurring mental breakdowns and a refusal to live by anyone else's rules. Explored in detail are:
-The real reason behind original bassist Pete Quaife quitting the group in 1968.
-Ray Davies' fraught relationship with Chrissie Hynde.
-The origins of the mythic Village Green celebrated in The Kinks' classic 1968 album.
-Why The Kinks became the only Sixties band to be banned from America at the height of their success.

Full attention is paid to the later years, when a series of hit albums featuring new Ray Davies songs brought stadium success and rehabilitated their reputation in America.

The ultimate Kinks biography!

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
1. The Village
2. The Riff
3. Pearl Harbour
4. The Suburban Hit Machine
5. Waterloo Sunset
6. The End of the Golden Age
7. God Save The Kinks
8. On Broadway
9. The Unabomber of Rock
10. "The Kinks Are Dead"
11. Give the People what They Want
12. The Palais
13. Into the Machine
14. Two Brothers

Acknowledgements
Discograph
Index