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God Save the Kinks

Paul Nelson, Circus, September 1969

"THEY CAME to us in 1964 wearing pink shirts and long frock coats with a song called 'You Really Got Me', which was their third attempt and their first hit," writes my good friend Andy Wickham, himself from England, of the British group, the Kinks.

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