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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]
Despite the praise for the song, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies described the song as "terrible", saying, "[it was] the one Kink record I haven't got." [ 13 ] Billboard said the song had a "clever, music-hall melody and lyric in the bag of [the Kinks] smash ' A Well Respected Man .'" [ 14 ]
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 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 ...
"Apeman" is a 1970 song by the English rock band the Kinks. It was written by Ray Davies and appears on the album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One . Written as a call to return to nature amidst the crowding and industry of the city, the song features calypso stylings.
The most British song in the Kinks’ catalog: “A Well Respected Man” (1965) In an era when many of his peers had their sights set on America, Davies wrote with remarkable sympathy about ...
The Kinks' first single was a cover of the Little Richard song "Long Tall Sally". A friend of the band, Bobby Graham , [ 24 ] was recruited to play the drums on the recording. Graham would continue to occasionally substitute for Avory in the studio and he played on several of the Kinks' early singles, including the hits "You Really Got Me ...
"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 ...