100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #27: The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset

Ray Davis has a claim to be one of the foremost chroniclers of London life in the 1960s, of children who grew up in post-war Britain and who found the world change around them as their adult lives progressed.  He penned numerous songs which acted as social commentaries, a prime example of which is this one, blending a distinctive narrative in the lyrics with a sufficiently commercial, guitar-based sound.  A popular urban myth is that the Terry and Julie, whom the narrator describes, referred to two actors of the day, Terrance Stamp and Julie Christie.  However, Davis himself debunked this in his 2008 autobiography.

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