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The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"

"Of all the millions of ideas that have permeated Dave Davies' psyche (...) surely his most far-reaching one was the decision, one day in 1964, to take a Gillette razorblade to the speaker cone on his Elpico amplifier, slitting it repeatedly from the center to the edge. Fed through a larger amp - a Vox AC30 - the violated Elpico made a ferocious distorted noise that sent 'You Relly Got Me', The Kinks third single, hurtling to the top of the UK charts in September 1964. For inventing that guitar sound, Davies has often been credited as a pioneer of heavy metal. He remembers Jimi Hendrix telling him, around 1967, that 'You Really Got Me' had been a landmark record in the development of rock". (David Cavanagh, "Uncut" de Janeiro de 2012)

(2011)