Waterloo Sunset
| Waterloo Sunset | |
|---|---|
| The Kinks | |
| publication | May 5th 1967 |
| length | 3 min 16 s |
| Genre (s) | Rock music |
| Author (s) | Ray Davies |
| album | Something Else by The Kinks |
Waterloo Sunset ( German : sunset (at the station) Waterloo ) is a rock - ballad of the British rock band The Kinks from the year 1967th
Despite the complex arrangement, the recordings for Waterloo Sunset only took ten hours. The single was one of the band's greatest hits; it reached number 2 in the Melody Maker charts and in the UK Top 40 , but where it could not displace Silence Is Golden of the Tremeloes from first place. Waterloo Sunset became one of the most famous and popular pieces of the Kinks.
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In the text, the lyrical self describes how it looks out the window at the Thames (“Dirty old river”) and at London Waterloo station , where Terry and Julie meet every Friday. Terence Stamp and Julie Christie were the main characters in the literary film adaptation of The Mistress of Thornhill, which appeared in the same year .
Ray Davies protested against this identification in his autobiography and said in an interview in 2008: "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." "It was a fantasy about my sister and her boyfriend on their way to a new world; they were about to emigrate and move to a new country.") In an interview with Kinks biographer Nick Hasted, Ray Davies said in 2010, that "Terry" was his nephew Terry Davies.
On August 12, 2012, Ray Davies performed with Waterloo Sunset at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in London.
literature
- Thomas M. Kitts: Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else . Taylor & Francis, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-97768-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Kitts (2007). Pp. 86-87
- ^ Johnny Rogan (1998), p. 18.
- ↑ Steve Baltin: The Kinks' Ray Davies Serves Up Songs at the 'Working Man's Cafe' . Crackhead. March 27, 2008. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved on December 8, 2009.
- ^ The Kinks: Well respected man . In: The Independent , September 10, 2004. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ How a lonely Londoner created one of the great Sixties songs . In: The Independent , August 26, 2011.