Waterloo Sunset

May 5, 1967

Waterloo Sunset ( German: Sunset ( at the station) Waterloo ) is a rock ballad of the English rock band The Kinks from the year 1967.

Despite the complex arrangements and recordings for Waterloo Sunset lasted a mere ten hours. The single was the band one of the greatest successes; it reached # 2 in the Melody Maker charts and the UK Top 40, where she could not displace the first place but the Tremeloes Silence Is Golden. Waterloo Sunset was one of the most popular pieces of the Kinks.

The text describes the lyric I, as it looks out of the window on the Thames ( " Dirty old river" ) and to the train station to Waterloo Station, where every Friday Terry and Julie träfen. Terence Stamp and Julie Christie were the protagonists of the same year published literary adaptation " The Madding Crowd ".

Against this identification Ray Davies kept in his autobiography and said in a 2008 interview: "It was a fantasy about my sister going off with her boyfriend to a new world and theywere going to emigrate and go to another country. ( German: . It was a fantasy about my sister and her boyfriend on the way to a new world, they were to emigrate here and move to a new land " ) in an interview with the Kinks biographer Nick Hasted Ray 2010 said that " Terry " Terry Davies was his nephew.

On August 12, 2012 Ray Davies joined with Waterloo Sunset on at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in London.