You Really Got Me - The Story of the Kinks

You Really Got Me - The Story of the Kinks

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Contains some of the Kinks finest moments and is full of rarely seen
performances from the sixties right through to the nineties.

March 23, 2010

Voiceprint and MVD Visual are pleased to announce the release of "You
Really Got Me - The Story of the Kinks" for North American
distribution on May 18.

This DVD contains some of the Kinks finest moments and is full of
rarely seen performances from the sixties right through to the
nineties and also contains comments from the various members of the
band including Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory.

Some of the performances featured here include You Really Got Me,
'Til The End Of The Day, Waterloo Sunset, Days, Celluloid Heroes and
many more including the Dave Davies hit single Death Of A Clown.
Footage comes from live concerts and television performances in
America, the UK, Germany and Japan.

Of all the British bands that broke through commercially in America
who were part of the "British Invasion" of the sixties, one band
stood head and shoulders above all the others as being
quintessentially English... the Kinks.

Led by Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave Davies, the Kinks
burst onto the music scene in 1964 with their ground breaking hit
single You Really Got Me. This was the band's third single and it
reached number one in the UK singles chart and made the American top ten.
Along with the Davies brothers the band was made up of bassist Pete
Quaife and drummer Mick Avory. Originally, like many other aspiring
band of the early sixties they were an aspiring rhythm and blues band
and their first two singles bear out this claim, although the second
single You Still Want Me was the first Kinks single to be written by
Ray Davies.

Once the band broke through with You Really Got Me they were off and
running and further hit singles followed with All Day And All Of The
Night, Tired Of Waiting For You, Set Me Free and A Well Respected Man
(all of which were written by Ray Davies, as was the vast majority of
the Kinks material) all doing well within the next twelve months. In
fact the Kinks were considered one of the biggest bands of the period
and Ray Davies, one of the eras more important and highly regarded
song writers.

The band continued until mid 1996 and since that time has been
inactive as a band with both Ray and Dave Davies releasing solo
material. In 2004, Dave Davies suffered a stroke but since that time
has made a slow but steady recovery. Ray Davies has also said he is
keen to reunite the Kinks and rumours persist that this may happen in 2010.

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