Shel Talmy, a shaper who worked with David Bowie, The Who and The Kinks during their aboriginal years, has died aged 87.
Alec Palao, who worked with the American grounds producer, said helium "died peacefully successful his sleep" astatine his Los Angeles location connected Wednesday "from complications owed to a stroke".
In a posthumous connection written earlier his decease and posted connected Wednesday, Talmy said: "I've had a bully run, and I americium delighted it lasted arsenic agelong arsenic it did. I'm besides delighted that I americium told I person a bequest that volition past adjacent longer.
"I look guardant to gathering immoderate of you successful the aboriginal who are speechmaking this, but LOL, don't hurry to get here, I'm not going anywhere!"
In the aforesaid statement, his representatives said Talmy wanted fans to work his past words with "your prime of favourite ST accumulation cranked successful the background".
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Talmy made his sanction arsenic a shaper successful the 1960s, producing immoderate of The Kinks' hits - including You Really Got Me, Tired Of Waiting For You, Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset.
He aboriginal produced The Who's My Generation - some the deed azygous and the album.
Talmy besides worked connected immoderate of the archetypal recordings featuring Bowie.
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Born successful Chicago successful 1937, Talmy made his mode to the UK from the US during a summertime sojourn successful 1962 - wherever helium secured a presumption astatine Decca Records by claiming to person worked with The Beach Boys.
Paying tribute to the producer, Palao said: "Shel Talmy was genuinely a one-off.
"Even the briefest survey of the astir indispensable popular and stone recordings of the 1960s would request to see thing Shel produced, and that successful itself is an incredibly meaningful legacy."