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| "Set Me Free" | ||||
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| Single by the Kinks | ||||
| from the album Kinda Kinks (US edition) | ||||
| B-side | "I Need You" | |||
| Released | 21 May 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 13–14 April 1965[1] | |||
| Studio | Pye, London | |||
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| Length | 2:12 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Ray Davies | |||
| Producer(s) | Shel Talmy | |||
| The Kinks UK singles chronology | ||||
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| The Kinks US singles chronology | ||||
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"Set Me Free" is a song by Ray Davies, released first by the Kinks in 1965. Along with "Tired of Waiting for You", it is one of band's first attempts at a softer, more introspective sound. The song's B-side, "I Need You", makes prominent use of powerchords in the style of the Kinks' early, "raunchy" sound. "Set Me Free" was heard in the Ken Loach-directed Up the Junction, a BBC Wednesday Play which aired in November 1965; this marked the first appearance of a Kinks song on a film or TV soundtrack.
Billboard said of the single that "hot on the heels of [the Kinks'] 'Tired of Waiting for You' smash comes this down home blues rhythm material with a good teen lyric."[3] Cash Box described it as "a snappy tune that’s taken for an engaging disk ride."[4]
- ^ a b Hinman 2004, p. 56.
- ^ Turner 2003, p. 560.
- ^ "Singles Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. 5 June 1965. p. 35. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 5 June 1965. p. 12. Retrieved 12 January 2022.