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SHEL TALMY, the man behind ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘My Generation’, ‘Friday On My Mind’ and countless other touchstone records of the 1960s, the American whose impact upon British rock can never be discounted, has left the building. His friend Alec Palao offers final thoughts on the late, great producer.

Both myself and Ace Records were deeply saddened to hear of the recent passing of Ron Kavana, one of the label's former recording artists and compiler of a series of heritage Irish CDs for the company's Globestyle imprint.

 I very much regret not having had any thoughts of interviewing the man during the twenty or so years I followed his music and got to know him to some extent, so the following piece as the heading suggests is written largely from memory with more than a little help from album notes and credits and retained scraps of conversations with the man himself. The likes of Wikipedia have been purposely avoided. It also helps that I was privileged to work at both Rock On and Ace Records.