| "Waterloo Sunset" | ||||
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| Single by the Kinks | ||||
| from the album Something Else by the Kinks | ||||
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| Released | 5 May 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 3, 10 and 13 April 1967[1] | |||
| Studio | Pye, London[1] | |||
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| Length | 3:16 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Ray Davies | |||
| Producer(s) | Ray Davies | |||
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"Waterloo Sunset" is a song by English rock band the Kinks. It was released as a single on 5 May 1967 and featured on the album Something Else by the Kinks later that year. Written and produced by Kinks frontman Ray Davies, "Waterloo Sunset" is one of the band's best-known and most acclaimed songs, and was ranked number 14 on the 2021 edition of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was also their first single that was available in true stereo.
"Waterloo Sunset" reached number 2 on the British charts in mid-1967. It was a top 10 hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. It was also released as a single in North America, but failed to chart there.
- ^ a b Hinman 2004, pp. 96, 98, 99.
- ^ Bennett 1997, p. 23; Harris 2003, p. 87.
- ^ Luhrssen & Larson 2017, p. 197.
- ^ Matijas-Mecca 2020, p. 104.