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In the UK, The Kinks' previous two singles had failed to chart. "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 ...
The album was packaged in a gatefold sleeve, and included a shaped insert depicting Queen Victoria (holding a house containing Arthur Morgan), with lyrics on the reverse. Liner notes in the UK were written by Geoffrey Cannon and Julian Mitchell; in the US, notes by rock critic John Mendelsohn replaced Cannon's. [30]
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; Somebody Else (Big Country song) Starstruck (The Kinks song)
Ray Davies composed "The Village Green Preservation Society" around August 1968, after the other eleven songs for the Kinks' next album had been recorded. In a contemporary interview, he explained that the song's central inspiration spawned from a conversation where someone suggested that the Kinks had been preserving "nice things from the past", [5] and he hoped to capture the idea within a ...
The Kinks' recording of "All of My Friends Were There" was absent from Davies's original twelve-track edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, planned for release in September 1968. [14] When Davies delayed the album's release to expand it to fifteen tracks, "All of My Friends Were There" was among the songs he added. [15]
"Have a Cuppa Tea" is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by the Kinks on their 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies. Like many Kinks songs, it is stylistically influenced by the British Music Hall. It also has a slight country influence—with the mesh of these two styles being a hallmark of the album. It is believed to be about Ray and Dave ...
Schoolboys in Disgrace, or The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace, is a 1975 concept album by the Kinks. Their 15th studio album, it was considered by critics to be the last album in what they dubbed the group's "theatrical" period, and their final release for RCA Records .
The Kinks recorded "Stop Your Sobbing" on Kinks, which was rushed out in order to capitalize on the success of "You Really Got Me." [3] Kinks biographer Rob Jovanovic writes that "Stop Your Sobbing" was supposedly written by Ray about a former girlfriend who, fearing that fame would change him, broke down in tears upon seeing how popular he had become. [4]