"You Really Got Me" - Van Halen [1978]. written by the Kinks' Ray Davies in 1964. As Van Halen's first single, it helped jump-start the band's career, as it had done for the Kinks in the sixties.

RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

"You Really Got Me" - Van Halen [1978]. written by the Kinks' Ray Davies in 1964. As Van Halen's first single, it helped jump-start the band's career, as it had done for the Kinks in the sixties.

RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

From the wikipedia page

Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at Gazzarri’s in the summer of 1976, and convinced Gene Simmons of Kiss to see them perform. Impressed, Simmons produced a 29-track Van Halen demo tape, entitled “Zero”, at Village Recorder studios in Los Angeles, with post-production overdubs completed at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Simmons suggested changing their name to “Daddy Longlegs.” However, a very disappointed Simmons could do no more once Kiss management decided that Van Halen “had no chance of making it”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen

"You Really Got Me" - Van Halen [1978]. written by the Kinks' Ray Davies in 1964. As Van Halen's first single, it helped jump-start the band's career, as it had done for the Kinks in the sixties.

"You Really Got Me" - Van Halen [1978]. written by the Kinks' Ray Davies in 1964. As Van Halen's first single, it helped jump-start the band's career, as it had done for the Kinks in the sixties.

Van Halen - You Really Got Me (Official Music Video)