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Shel Talmy Dies: Influential ’60s Rock Producer For The Kinks, The Who & Others Was 87
Shel Talmy, the rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" and The Who's "My Generation," died of a stroke in Los Angeles. He was 87.
Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks ‘ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who ‘s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during the weekend at his Los Angeles home after a stroke. Talmy produced The Kinks’ first seven albums from 1964-67, which spawned such landmark singles as “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” “Tired of Waiting for You,” “A Well Respected Man” and “Sunny Afternoon.” He also worked on “Waterloo Sunset,” which influential rock critic Robert Christgau dubbed — quite legitimately — “the most beautiful song in the English language.” He also would produce The Who’s 1965 album My Generation, whose title track remains a rock high-water mark, and a few of its other pre- Tommy singles including “The Kids Are Alright.”
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