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  2. Destroyer (The Kinks song) - Wikipedia

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    The track borrows the main riff from The Kinks' 1964 song, "All Day and All of the Night", which was one of the band's first hits. [2] The lyrics feature the return of the transvestite title character from The Kinks' 1970 hit song, "Lola"; in "Destroyer", the singer brings Lola to his place where he becomes increasingly paranoid .

  3. Come Dancing (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Come Dancing" is a tribute to Davies' older sister Rene. Living in Canada with her reportedly abusive husband, the 31-year-old Rene was visiting her childhood home in Fortis Green in London at the time of Ray Davies' 13th birthday—21 June 1957—on which she surprised him with a gift of the Spanish guitar he had tried to persuade his parents to buy him. [3]

  4. Category:The Kinks songs - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Phenomenal Cat - Wikipedia

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    "Phenomenal Cat" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from their sixth studio album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968). Written and produced by Ray Davies, the song was recorded sometime between late 1967 and May 1968. The song features a Mellotron which duplicates the sound of a flute.

  6. Catch Me Now I'm Falling - Wikipedia

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    The song includes a saxophone solo that Billboard described as "hot," as well as a guitar solo by Dave Davies. [2] [4] Cash Box said the song was "topical" with "a hypnotic blues-rock beat," summarizing the song as "good natured pop with a message." [5] Record World called it "a vintage Kinks rocker complete with raging guitar lines and a ...

  7. Dandy (song) - Wikipedia

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    AllMusic's Stewart Mason said of "Dandy" that "Davies delivers the lyrics, about a neighborhood lothario, with just the right mixture of disgust and admiration; his slyly witty vocals are truly what makes the song. Musically, the tune harks back to the music hall tradition of George Formby; Dave Davies' guitar is so trebly and clean that it ...

  8. Victoria (The Kinks song) - Wikipedia

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    In the US, "Victoria" was the lead single from Arthur, backed with album track "Brainwashed", and reached No. 62 [5] on the Billboard Hot 100 – their highest position there since their top 20 hit "Sunny Afternoon" in 1966.

  9. David Watts (song) - Wikipedia

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    As Ray Davies confirmed in The Kinks: The Official Biography by Savage, "David Watts is a real person. He was a concert promoter in Rutland." He goes on to relate how the real Watts was gay and demonstrated an obvious romantic interest in his brother Dave Davies. In this light, lines such as "he is so gay and fancy free" and "all the girls in ...