The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Official Audio)
He noted that he "didn’t even think it would work – but luckily it came back with that amazing, roar sound.” The effect, which came to be known as “fuzz,” helped the Kinks focus on a second version of “You Really Got Me” after they’d felt the first sounded too clean.
The later recording was released as their third single in the U.K. after their previous two songs flopped, and went on to become their breakthrough single in the U.S., marking the band as stalwarts of the British Invasion.
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