The recording career of the English rock group the Kinks spanned more than 30 years between 1964 and 1996. In that time the group released 25 studio albums and had many hit singles including three UK number one singles starting in 1964 with Hard Rock hit "You Really Got Me" which subsequently influenced Heavy Metal music in the 1970s, they had 18 Top 40 singles in the 1960s alone and further Top 40 hits in the 1970s and 1980s. The Kinks music often focuses on everyday subjects for working class people in Britain and are known for their poetic lyrics about subjects like fashion followers in "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", poverty in "Dead End Street" and environment issues in "Apeman." This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video