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Shel Talmy, file producer who oversaw hits by the Kinks and the Who, dies at 87
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Shel Talmy, file producer who oversaw hits by the Kinks and the Who, dies at 87

Last updated: November 15, 2024 3:59 pm
Editorial Board Published November 15, 2024
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Shel Talmy, the American file producer who helped foment the British Invasion by capturing the scabrous guitar riff within the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and Roger Daltrey’s stuttering vocal line within the Who’s “My Generation,” died Wednesday. He was 87.

His loss of life was introduced in a publish on his Fb web page, which stated he “passed away peacefully at home” in Los Angeles “after suffering a stroke over the weekend.” The publish included a message from Talmy during which he wrote that “if you’re reading this now, this is my final vignette, as I am no longer residing on this plane of existence, and have ‘moved on,’ to wherever that may be.”

“I’d like to think that I’m thoroughly enjoying my new ‘residence,’ and that the countless rumors that there is a big working ‘studio in the sky’ are true,” the notice continued.

Although he was born in Chicago, Talmy was an architect of the catchy if rough-hewn sound that propelled many a British band to pop stardom within the mid-Sixties; along with the Kinks and the Who, he oversaw hits by Manfred Mann and Chad & Jeremy and labored with a younger David Bowie (again when he was performing beneath his actual title, Davy Jones).

Talmy’s live-wire manufacturing fashion — as immortalized in a catalog of basic tunes that additionally consists of the Kinks’ “All Day and All of the Night” and “Tired of Waiting for You,” the Who’s “I Can’t Explain” and the Easybeats’ “Friday on My Mind” — emphasised fuzzy guitars and bashing drums that created a way of a band preventing towards the institution to be heard.

But one among his best-regarded productions was the Kinks’ 1967 “Waterloo Sunset,” a gently psychedelic pop music a couple of man watching two lovers cross a bridge over the River Thames. In an interview with The Occasions final yr, the Kinks’ Ray Davies remembered “Waterloo Sunset” — which Davies stated he produced, although Talmy insisted in any other case — as a favourite of his mom’s, including that the music “says a lot about people of her postwar generation living in austerity in London.

“I was a strange kid, not very sociable, but I think with this song she finally understood me a bit.”

Sheldon Talmy was born in 1937 and moved to L.A. from Chicago as a teen. He graduated from Fairfax Excessive College in 1955 and began working as an engineer at an early model of the studio that turned Conway Recording Studios on Melrose Avenue. Talmy went to England in 1962 and rapidly fell in with a scene he described as “energy-filled” in a 1990 interview with Combine journal. “Nobody got a lot of sleep, but nobody gave a damn,” he stated. “We all worked long into the night, and then we’d go out to parties.”

Talmy later collaborated with Pentangle, the Small Faces and the Damned. Within the late ’70s, he moved again to L.A., the place he continued to work in music in addition to in computer systems, together with for a corporation he co-founded referred to as Superscan that charged different companies between 95 cents and $10 a web page to feed paperwork right into a “photocopy-like machine,” as a 1987 Occasions article put it. “Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

In response to Selection, Talmy’s survivors embody his spouse, Jan Talmy; a brother; a daughter and a granddaughter.

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