The Kinks: They really got me

He used to skive off school just to watch the Kinks drinking in a pub. So what did Julien Temple learn from making a film about his heroes?I first heard the Kinks at the age of 11 – listening to Radio Caroline on a crystal radio set beneath my bedclothes. It was August 1964, and the rabid-dog riffs of You Really Got Me came crackling through my tiny earpiece, blowing my world apart like a dirty bomb. Those distorted guitar chords went on to rearrange the sonic architecture of the 1960s – but...

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