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"Victoria" was released as the third and final single from the album in December (backed with "Mr. Churchill Says"), returning them to the UK Singles Chart, reaching a peak of No. 33. In Canada, the song was a hit in the greater Toronto area, reaching No. 9 on the CHUM Top 30 on 21 March 1970, and staying in the charts for a number of weeks.
The song features a striking example of integration of sound effects into an arrangement, in this case a vintage air-raid siren which introduces a new section. [1] The Kinks had been experimenting with the use of sound effects since the 1966 Face to Face album. Ray Davies is also featured on lead vocals.
"Living on a Thin Line" has been praised as one of Dave Davies's greatest songs. David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that "in 'Living on a Thin Line' – a dark variation on Ray's own death-of-England's-glory songs – brooding, goose-stepping chords and moping Pink Floyd synths underscore the desperate effectiveness of Dave's nervous croon."
Ray negotiated the end of the Kinks’ U.S. concert ban in 1969, and the band were allowed to tour America for the first time in four years as Arthur’s lead single, “Victoria,” ended a long ...
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Scattered (The Kinks song) See My Friends; Set Me Free (The Kinks song) Shangri-La (The Kinks song) She Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina; She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina; She's Got Everything (song) Sitting by the Riverside; Sitting in My Hotel; Sitting in the Midday Sun; Sleepwalker (The Kinks song) So Mystifying; Starstruck (The ...
The song — which Dave says was inspired by his brother/bandmate Ray Davies’s dinner date with Warhol muse Candy Darling, although Ray has denied this claim — detailed a brief, doomed ...
"Lola" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies for their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details a romantic encounter in a Soho bar between a young man and Lola, who is possibly a trans woman or cross-dresser .