Waterloo Sunset was a 1967 hit for which band?
Waterloo Sunset Waterloo Sunset "Waterloo Sunset" is a song by British rock band The Kinks. It was released as a single in 1967, and featured on their album "Something Else by The Kinks". Composed and produced by Kinks frontman Ray Davies, "Waterloo Sunset" is one of the band's best known and most acclaimed songs, and ranked number 42 on "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It is also their first single that is available in true stereo. The record reached number 2 on the British charts in mid 1967, behind the Tremeloes' "Silence Is Golden". It was a top 10
Waterloo Sunset hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. In North America, "Waterloo Sunset" was released as a single but it failed to chart. The lyrics describe a solitary narrator watching (or imagining) two lovers passing over a bridge, with the melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the Thames, and Waterloo station. The song was rumoured to have been inspired by the romance between two British celebrities of the time, actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, stars of 1967's "Far from the Madding Crowd". Ray Davies denied this in his autobiography and claimed in a 2008 interview, "It was a