Mott The Hoople – You Really Got Me (1970)

Mott the Hoople is an English rock band popular in the early to mid-1970s glam rock era. They are best known for the song “All the Young Dudes”, written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.Mott the Hoople was formed in 1966 as the Doc Thomas Group with Mick Ralphs on guitar, Stan Tippins on vocals, and Pete Overend Watts on bass. Ralphs and Tippins had been in a local Hereford band the Buddies, and Watts had been in a local Ross-on-Wye band the Soulents with Dale “Buffin” Griffin on drums. The Doc Thomas Group had a concert residency at a nightclub in a resort town in Italy. The group was offered a recording contract with the Italian label Dischi Interrecord and released an eponymous album in January 1967. By 1968, Griffin and organist Verden Allen had joined the band.