Songs Produced by Ray Davies: 20th Century Man, Apeman (Song), Autumn Almanac, Better Things (Song), Celluloid Heroes, Come Dancing (Son
- ISBN-10
- 1230652469
- ISBN-13
- 9781230652467
- Pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Booksllc.Net
- Author
- Source Wikipedia
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: 20th Century Man, Apeman (song), Autumn Almanac, Better Things (song), Celluloid Heroes, Come Dancing (song), David Watts (song), Days (The Kinks song), Don't Forget to Dance, God's Children (song), Got to Be Free, Have a Cuppa Tea, Lola (song), Mr. Churchill Says, Oklahoma U.S.A. (song), Plastic Man (song), Rats (The Kinks song), Shangri-La (The Kinks song), Sitting in My Hotel, Sitting in the Midday Sun, State of Confusion (song), Strangers (The Kinks song), Supersonic Rocket Ship, The Hard Way (The Kinks song), Victoria (song), Waterloo Sunset, Wicked Annabella. Excerpt: "Waterloo Sunset" is a song by British rock band The Kinks. It was released as a single in 1967, and featured on their album Something Else by The Kinks. Composed and produced by Kinks frontman Ray Davies, "Waterloo Sunset" is one of the band's best known and most acclaimed songs in most territories, having been a #2 hit in the UK, and a top 10 hit in Australia and New Zealand and most of Europe. It's also their first single that's available in true stereo. The lyrics describe a solitary narrator watching (or imagining) two lovers passing over a bridge, with the melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the Thames, and Waterloo Station. The song was rumoured to have been inspired by the romance between two British celebrities of the time, actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie stars of 1967s Far from the Madding Crowd. Ray Davies denied this in his autobiography and claimed in a 2008 interview, "It was a fantasy about my sister going off with her boyfriend to a new world and they were going to emigrate and go to another country." In a 2010 interview with Kinks biographer Nick Hasted he said Terry was his nephew Terry Davies, "who he was perhaps closer to than his real brother in early...
