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Shel Talmy, Producer for the Who and the Kinks, Dead at 87

Shel Talmy, who produced classic songs including the Who's "My Generation" and the Kinks' "Really Got Me," died after suffering a stroke at age 87.

Shel Talmy, the producer behind hits including the Kinks ‘ “You Really Got Me” and the Who’s “My Generation,” died on Wednesday following complications from a stroke, a representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. Talmy regularly worked with legendary producer and engineer Glyn Jons, and he hired Jimmy Page as a studio guitarist before he’d go onto his career with the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. “Even the briefest survey of the most essential pop and rock recordings of the 1960s would need to include something Shel produced, and that in itself is an incredibly meaningful legacy.”

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