Knockouts from the past…

8 July 2019

This day 53 years ago, on 8 July 1966, legends THE KINKS had a No 1 hit single in the
UK with the splendid humdinger SUNNY AFTERNOON. Strangely enough at the time
that mastermind Ray Davies wrote the song he was listening continuously to Frank
Sinatra, Bob Dylan and Bach.

Of the song lyrics, he said: “The only way I could interpret how I felt was through a dusty, fallen aristocrat who had come from old money as opposed to the wealth I had created for myself. In order to prevent the listener from sympathizing with the song’s protagonist I turned him into a scoundrel who fought with his girlfriend after a night of drunkenness and cruelty.“.

Here’s the classic…

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