The American producer helped to craft a raw, immediate sound for British rock in the mid-1960s, with hits such as You Really Got Me and My Generation

Shel Talmy, the music producer behind classics such as the Kinks’ You Really Got Me and the Who’s My Generation, has died aged 87. His publicist said he died peacefully in his sleep, due to complications after a stroke.

“Even the briefest survey of the most essential pop and rock recordings of the 1960s would need to include something Shel produced,” said Talmy’s archivist Alec Palao in a statement. “That in itself is an incredibly meaningful legacy … Talmy was truly a one-off.”