Ray Davies is one talented guy. Lennart Lindström, Alingsås, Sweden Waterloo Sunset is the best pop song ever written. Mr Sandy Maclean,8 Queens Avenue,FLINT.CH6 5JW Not only is 'Waterloo Sunset ...
They'd won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, and had a hit with the song "Waterloo," but their subsequent singles didn't fare as well and their tour dates didn't sell out. It began to seem as ...
On Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs, "Waterloo Sunset" comes it at 14. The Kinks made their legend in their early years, rivals to the Who, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
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 ...