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Release. "Life Goes On" was released as the ninth and final track on The Kinks' 1977 album Sleepwalker. Following the album release, the song was released as the B-side to the American version of Sleepwalker 's second single, "Juke Box Music", in May of that year (in the U.K. and Germany, the song "Sleepless Night" was used instead.)
– Ray Davies "You Really Got Me" was written by Ray Davies, the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964. Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented. Ray said of the song's writing, "When I came up with ['You Really Got Me'] I ...
The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 12 June 1970, while in the United States it was released on 28 June 1970. Commercially, "Lola" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart [7] and number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. [8] The track has since become one of the Kinks' most popular songs and was ranked number 386 on ...
Background. "Living on a Thin Line" is one of two songs on Word of Mouth written by Dave Davies (the other being "Guilty"). In his biography Kink, Davies said that the track was influenced by The Kinks ' long and difficult career, along with his hatred of politicians. [1] The song was also influenced by the deterioration of English identity in ...
Lyrics and music. The lyrics of "Moving Pictures" focus on how life passes people by. It laments on how life is "always moving" and that "nothing in life is a permanent fixture". It then goes on to analyze life in general, with lines such as "we live, we die, no one knows why" and " life can sometimes not be very nice, but then you make your ...
Release and reception. "Sleepwalker" was released as the first single from album of the same name. It charted in the American Hot 100 (peaking at #48), [4] the first single from The Kinks to do so since "Apeman". It also hit #54 in Canada. [2] NME stated, "Set to a backdrop highly reminiscent of the hallowed back-'em-up-shut-'em-down riffing of ...
The Village Green Preservation Society. " The Village Green Preservation Society"[nb 1] is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from their 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Written and sung by the band's principal songwriter Ray Davies, the song is a nostalgic reflection where the band state their intention ...
Do It Again is a song by British rock band the Kinks. Written by lead singer Ray Davies, the song was released as the first track on the Kinks' album, Word of Mouth. Written as an observation on stressful working schedules, the song features an opening guitar chord and echoed vocals. Released as a single in both America and Britain, the song ...