the kinks - waterloo sunset
No. 1: ‘Waterloo Sunset’ - The Kinks
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‘Waterloo Sunset’ - The Kinks
The most famous London song of all‘I used to go past Waterloo every day on my way to Croydon Art School; when I was a kid my father took me to the Festival Of Britain; my first real girlfriend, we walked by the Thames; I was in hospital at the old St Thomas’s and my room had a balcony looking out over the river.
All the imagery comes from memories like that. Although the song was supposed to be about the end of Merseybeat, called “Liverpool Sunset”. But when I was writing the lyrics I started to think about Waterloo and what it symbolised for me. Ray Davies
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