Ray Davies discussed his unusual vocal delivery on the Kinks’ classic track “Waterloo Sunset,” saying he tried to keep the lyrics hidden from his bandmates as they worked on the tune. In a recent ...

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 ...

IT was the perfect pop song; three minutes of sheer musical genius which is still regarded by many as the apogee of the swinging sixties single. Quite simply, nothing better ever revolved around a ...

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.

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 ...

According to a comment on X by Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and Little Steven’s Underground Garage, “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks was “the beginning of the modern Hard Rock world as we ...

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 ...