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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]
The band then signed with Columbia Records and released the five-song EP Did Ya in 1991, which, despite being coupled with a new studio re-recording of the band's 1968 British hit "Days", failed to chart. [6] [9] The Kinks reverted to a four-piece band for the recording of their first Columbia album, Phobia, in 1993.
The Kinks, an English rock band, were active for over three decades, from 1963 to 1996, releasing 26 studio albums and four live albums. [1] The first two albums are differently released in the UK and the US, partly due to the difference in popularity of the extended play format (the UK market liked it, the US market did not, so US albums had the EP releases bundled onto them), and partly due ...
"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]
"Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" is a song written by Ray Davies that was first released on the Kinks' 1979 album, Low Budget. The song, inspired by Superman: The Movie, employs a disco beat and lyrics that describe the singer's wish to be like the fictional character Superman.
The album proved to be a major success in the United States, reaching #11 on the Billboard 200 (the band's highest charting studio album to date). [9] Despite the great commercial success the album achieved in America, the album, like every Kinks album since 1967's Something Else by the Kinks, was unable to chart in their native Britain. [9]
Ray Davies is the rare songwriter who can operate in basically any style — as singer and bandleader of the Kinks, he seamlessly bounced from power chords to baroque pop arrangements, from fluffy ...
The American hard rock band Van Halen released a cover of "You Really Got Me" for their self-titled 1978 debut album. As the band's first single, it was a popular radio hit that helped jump-start the band's career, [74] as it had done for the Kinks 14 years earlier.