Ray Davies of the Kinks literally dreamed up one of his band's biggest hits, 'Waterloo Sunset' from 1967's 'Something Else by the Kinks' album. In fact, the singer says he simply "woke up and it was ...

Ray Davies didn't originally want the Kinks to release “Waterloo Sunset” because he wanted to keep the classic song for his family. Released in 1967, the track has achieved wide acclaim over the years ...

The Kinks are to re-release their 1967 number two hit "Waterloo Sunset" on the 40th anniversary of it's original chart placing. A 7" version will come backed with "Act Nice And Gentle" and a limited ...

The Kinks’ Ray Davies has said he never wanted to release ‘Waterloo Sunset’. The track was released as a single in May 1967 and went on to feature on the album ‘Something Else’ later that year.

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Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who’s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during Wednesday at ...

Ironically, this most London of songs started its life as ‘Liverpool Sunset’: Ray Davies’ reflection on the decline of the Merseybeat boom. But while the head Kink was still mulling his song over, The ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...

I love this song because I can just imagine London in the 60's whenever I hear it. It's an era that ended before I was born, but the song paints it rose-coloured for me, and makes me wish that I had ...