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Waterloo Sunset

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"Waterloo Sunset"
Single by the Kinks
from the album Something Else by the Kinks
B-side
Released5 May 1967 (1967-05-05)
Recorded3, 10 and 13 April 1967[1]
StudioPye, London[1]
Genre
Length3:16
Label
Songwriter(s)Ray Davies
Producer(s)Ray Davies
The Kinks UK singles chronology
"Dead End Street"
(1966)
"Waterloo Sunset"
(1967)
"Autumn Almanac"
(1967)
The Kinks US singles chronology
"Mister Pleasant"
(1967)
"Waterloo Sunset"
(1967)
"Autumn Almanac"
(1967)

"Waterloo Sunset" is a 1967 song by British band The Kinks and was taken from their fifth studio album Something Else by The Kinks. It topped the single charts in the Netherlands and made the top 10 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It failed to chart in North America. It was covered by Cathy Dennis in 1997.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Hinman 2004, pp. 96, 98, 99.
  2. Bennett 1997, p. 23; Harris 2003, p. 87.
  3. Luhrssen & Larson 2017, p. 197.
  4. Matijas-Mecca 2020, p. 104.