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Sunny Afternoon. " Sunny Afternoon " is a song by the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies. [7] The track later featured on the Face to Face album as well as being the title track for their 1967 compilation album. Like its contemporary "Taxman" by the Beatles, the song references the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour ...
The Kinks singles chronology. "Dedicated Follower of Fashion". (1966) "Sunny Afternoon" / " I'm Not Like Everybody Else ". (1966) "Dead End Street". (1966) " I'm Not Like Everybody Else " is a song written by Ray Davies and first recorded by the Kinks in 1966 and released that year as the B-side of "Sunny Afternoon".
– 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 ...
Face to Face is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released on 28 October 1966. The album marked a shift from the hard-driving style of beat music that had catapulted the group to international acclaim in 1964, instead drawing heavily from baroque pop and music hall. It is their first album consisting entirely of Ray ...
All Day and All of the Night. " All Day and All of the Night " is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from 1964. Released as a single, it reached No. 2 in the UK on the Record Retailer chart [7] and No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. [8] The song was included on the Kinksize Hits EP in the UK and the Kinks' second American ...
The Kink Kontroversy is the third studio album by the English rock band the Kinks.It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 November 1965 by Pye Records. [5] Issued in the United States on 30 March 1966 by Reprise Records, it was the Kinks' first American album to feature an identical track listing to its British counterpart. [6]
Sunny Afternoon is a jukebox musical with music and lyrics by Ray Davies and a book by Joe Penhall.Based on the formation and career of the English rock band The Kinks, the musical was commissioned and produced by Sonia Friedman and made its world premiere in 2014 at the Hampstead Theatre, London, before transferring to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre.
Live at Kelvin Hall. Live at Kelvin Hall is a live album by the English rock group the Kinks. It was recorded at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, in early 1967 and released in August 1967 in the US (as The Live Kinks), and January 1968 in the UK. [5] Live at Kelvin Hall received mixed reviews upon release, and sold poorly.