"Waterloo Sunset ""Waterloo Sunset"" is a song by British rock band The Kinks. It was released as a single in 1967, and featured on their album ""Something Else by The Kinks"". Composed and produced by Kinks frontman Ray Davies, ""Waterloo Sunset"" is one of the band's best known and most acclaimed songs, and ranked number 42 on ""Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"". It is also their first single that is available in true stereo. The record reached number 2 on the British charts in mid 1967, behind the Tremeloes' ""Silence Is Golden"". It was a top 10"
"era. Lavender Hill has featured as a site location for many British TV shows, including ""On The Buses"" and ""The Sweeney"", in the 1970s. In 1967 the English group The Kinks recorded a whimsical song entitled ""Lavender Hill"" which may have been under consideration as a follow-up single to Waterloo Sunset, but was rejected in favour of Autumn Almanac. The song was eventually released in the U.S. in 1973 on ""The Great Lost Kinks Album"", and has been described as ""a southerner's counterpoint to the Beatles' Penny Lane"", despite the fact that the Kinks hailed from North London. Notable former"
"— Phil Spector meets The Shangri-Las on a rain-slicked English back-road"" — and said that it ""should have set up Twinkle for never-ending fame"". Terry (Twinkle song) ""Terry"" is a song written and sung by British singer Lynn Ripley, who performed under the name Twinkle. It was her first single, and reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1964, spending fifteen weeks in the charts. The track also reached number 5 on the Canadian charts, spending four weeks in the Top 40 in February 1965, and number 2 on the Hong Kong charts in March 1965. The"
"Kelly) during the course of a train journey. Indian Summer (Stereophonics song) ""Indian Summer"" is a song by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. It was released as the second single from their eighth studio album ""Graffiti on the Train"" (2013). It was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2013 and as a limited edition 10"" vinyl single on 25 February. The song peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart on 10 March 2013, becoming their 1st UK Top 40 single since 2007 and 25th UK Top 40 single in total. The song was"
"of British popular songs arranged broadly chronologically, beginning with ""Going Underground"" by The Jam, suggesting a ride on the London Underground. During this track images of the Underground were projected onto the house and former London Mayor Ken Livingstone was briefly seen. Throughout the sequence cast members were texting each other or placing social networking status updates on the Internet. Frankie and June first notice each other as a snippet from ""Wonderful Tonight"" by Eric Clapton plays, but when Frankie saw that June had dropped her phone on the Tube, he set off to return it (communicating using last number"
"has also said that song had been inspired by Jimmy Giuffre's song ""The Train and the River"". According to the band's manager, Larry Page, the song's characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of the Kingsmen's ""Louie Louie"". Lyrically, the song was said to be influenced by an encounter with one of the band's ""first serious female fans."" The song was recorded by the Kinks at least twice in the summer of 1964. The band's demo was in a ""bluesy"" style, while a full studio version recorded in June was slower and less emphatic than the final single."
"you go"" customers to touch in and out. London Buses routes 4, 19, 29, 106, 153, 210, 236, 253, 254, 259, W3 and W7, and night routes N19, N29, N253 and N279 serve the station and bus station. The railway station is featured in the music video for Jim Diamond's number one hit ""I Should Have Known Better"". In JoWood Productions' transport game ""Traffic Giant"", the opening video shows a station platform (similar to a typical London Underground station) bearing the station name Finsbury Park. Finsbury Park is also a character created by the comedian Harry Hill and the station's"
"Station"" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album ""Beyond Believable"", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988. The song was written by Paul Bonin and Melanie Hickford, who both grew up and lived in the area. Queensbury tube station Queensbury is a London Underground station in Queensbury, London. It is on the Jubilee line, between Canons Park and Kingsbury, and in Travelcard Zone 4. The station opened on 16 December 1934, two years after the neighbouring stations, as part of the Metropolitan line and with its branch was transferred to the Bakerloo line in 1939,"
"according to a council survey. If Blackburn is typical, there are two million holes in Britain's roads and 300,000 in London."" The story had been sold to the ""Daily Mail"" in Manchester by Ron Kennedy of the Star News agency in Blackburn. Kennedy had noticed a ""Lancashire Evening Telegraph"" story about road excavations and in a telephone call to the Borough Engineer's department had checked the annual number of holes in the road. Lennon had a problem with the words of the final verse, however, not being able to think of how to connect ""Now they know how many holes"
"Sunny Afternoon (musical) Sunny Afternoon is a musical with music and lyrics by Ray Davies and a book by Joe Penhall. Based on the formation and career of the English rock band The Kinks, the musical made its world premiere in 2014, at the Hampstead Theatre, London, before transferring to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre. Featuring songs by The Kinks, ""Sunny Afternoon"" includes their hits such as ""Lola"", ""Waterloo Sunset"", ""You Really Got Me"" and the musical's title song, ""Sunny Afternoon"". On 13 December 2013, it was officially confirmed that a musical based around the early life of Ray"
"covered by folk singer Kate Rusby and appears as a bonus track on the album ""Awkward Annie"" in 2007. This version was recorded as the theme for BBC TV sitcom ""Jam and Jerusalem"". Ray Davies himself recorded a version with the Crouch End Festival Chorus for the 2009 album ""The Kinks Choral Collection"". The Village Green Preservation Society ""The Village Green Preservation Society"" is a single by the English rock group the Kinks. Written by Ray Davies, the song is a nostalgic reflection on cultural English ""village green"", country, and hamlet lifestyle, and references many different characteristics and features of"
"says that he used to work at Paddington so he knows that Paddington is most important. However, Gordon later finds out that the station in London is St Pancras. There is a fictional underground Paddington station on the North London System in the novel ""The Horn of Mortal Danger"" (1980). Paddington station was the subject of William Powell Frith's 1862 painting ""The Railway Station"". The portrait was viewed by over 21,000 people (paying a shilling each) in the first seven weeks of it being publicly shown. The painting is now held in the Royal Holloway College. The band Supertramp used"
"in the Second World War, and the exit in Chenies Street. The station is the setting of the song ""Sunny Goodge Street"", from the 1965 album ""Fairytale"" by singer-songwriter Donovan. The station exterior also appeared in the 2005 music video for ""Believe"" by The Chemical Brothers. Goodge Street tube station Goodge Street is a London Underground station on Tottenham Court Road in Fitzrovia, West End, London. It is on the Northern line's Charing Cross branch between Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. It was opened on 22 June 1907 as Tottenham Court Road"
"""Wild Orchids"", about the station. The station features in Billy Connolly's ""World Tour Of England, Ireland and Wales"", Dan Cruickshank's National Geographic Channel series ""Great Railway Adventures"" and the 2012 TV Series ""The Tube"". Notes References Bibliography Down Street tube station Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), is a disused station on the London Underground, located in Mayfair, west London. It was opened in 1907 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. It was latterly served by the Piccadilly line and was situated between Dover Street (now named Green Park) and Hyde Park Corner stations. The station"
"East London Transit bus rapid transit has a station beside the Vicarage Field Shopping Centre. The western end of the Yiwu-London railway line from China to the UK is located in Barking at the DB Eurohub. It ran its first service in January 2017. The singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg was born in Barking. Neil Young recorded two tracks for his classic album ""Harvest"", ""A Man Needs a Maid"" and ""There's a World"" with the London Symphony Orchestra at Barking Assembly Hall (now the Broadway theatre), released in 1972. Electronic band Underworld named their 2010 album ""Barking"" after the town."
"Summer Ends ""Summer Ends"" is a song written and performed by Barry Gibb in 1970 in the sessions of his debut solo album ""The Kid's No Good"", but this song was not included. Recorded on 15 February and finished on 20 February with ""I'll Kiss Your Memory"", ""The Victim"" and ""Moonlight"". He re-recorded ""Summer Ends"" around October 1971 with ""King Kathy"" and ""I Can Bring Love"" for his EP called ""Barry Gibb Fan Club"". The opening chord was E. He recorded the song, with only his acoustic guitar. In 1972, this song was recorded by the band Company and was"
"in January 1998 (and the November 2015 repeat on ITV Encore), the last scene at the railway station featured the 1966 John Denver Track ""Leaving on a Jet Plane"", although the 1969 version by Peter, Paul and Mary was used. However, on foreign broadcasts and DVD releases this is replaced with the 1964 Gerry and the Pacemakers hit ""Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying"". Even though this was done for copyright reasons the scene does have a different tone depending on which version is viewed. Ratings slowly declined after series 13. The schedule was split in half to incorporate"
"Daily Post, and Liverpool 7 Streets. The show received its London premiere on 14 October 2011. The Premiere was a huge success and the show drew praise from Neil Innes and Adrian Edmondson who were in the audience. The show also received another, this time from MOJO Magazine's Andrew Male. After this success preparation began for a London run. Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (recording) Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, released in 1978, is a largely spoken-word, solo comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, a British musician with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It originated in his Rawlinson End sessions for"
"about eight."" The song was recorded in July 1968, but was not set to be included in the 12-track version of ""The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society"" (which would be pulled from shelves shortly after its European release) or its U.S. counterpart ""Four More Respected Gentlemen"" (which was canceled prior to its release.) Also, on 22 July 1968, the song was performed (or lip-synced) by The Kinks on BBC-2's ""Late Night Line-Up - Colour Me Pop"" show. ""Sitting by the Riverside"", was first released as the seventh track on the final 15-track version of ""The Kinks Are the"
"Jason, and Julius becomes their manager and tambourine player. Buddy goes to a Teddy boy pub to perform with the Hi-Tones where Terry meets a young woman named Dawn; then a fight breaks out after Terry unplugs the jukebox. Terry and the band, along with Dawn, leave in the van. In the morning, Buddy is angered to find Dawn in the caravan with Terry and walks off. Terry catches up with him, where they argue and Buddy tells him he is now in his own band. The band who called themselves the Hurt performs at youth clubs. After seeing them"
"robbing a store. and is able to access computers and speech synthesizers, he learns to speak through them. He calls a radio station in Los Angeles named ""Radio KAOS"" and tells them of his life story. ""Sunset Strip"" is about Billy's sister-in-law, Molly not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave. Sunset Strip (song) ""Sunset Strip"" is a song written by Roger Waters for his second studio album, ""Radio K.A.O.S."" It was placed as the fifth track on the record. It was also released as the album's second single, in September 1987."
"discovered Jean – who was working as his PA – was sleeping with Terry (his chauffeur) when they were caught cavorting in a layby by the police, arrested and put in the cells for the night. The incident meant everybody in the village knew what had been going on and, in disgust, Dawn ordered them to end the relationship and went on holiday to get away from them. However, Jean and Terry were in love and defied Dawn. When she returned, she announced she and T.J. were going to live in Cornwall, breaking Terry’s heart. He decided to fight for"
"general maintenance and storage of the S7 Stock trains which operate on the Hammersmith & City line. On 29 August 1991, three incendiary devices, attributed to the IRA, were discovered under a seat at the depot. There were no injuries. London Buses routes 9, 27, 33, 72, 190, 209, 211, 220, 266, 267, 283, 295, 391, 419, 485, H91 and night route N9, N11 and N97 serve the station and the nearby bus station. The station appears in the film ""Adulthood"" (2008), as well as an earlier version of the music video for Lily Allen's ""LDN"". Lily enters the station"
"Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Though McCartney had a strained relationship with Lennon, they briefly became close again in early 1974, and played music together on one occasion. In later years, the two grew apart. While McCartney would often phone Lennon, he was apprehensive about the reception he would receive. During one call, Lennon told him, ""You're all pizza and fairytales!"" In an effort to avoid talking only about business, they often spoke of cats, babies, or baking bread. On 24 April 1976, McCartney and Lennon were watching an episode of ""Saturday Night Live"" together at Lennon's home in the Dakota, when"
"The Kinks, used the opening riff of ""Johnny Thunder"" in his own work. He also thought that a friend of both Ray Davies and Pete Townshend, Barry Fantoni, had been ""conveying our ideas to Townshend.""<ref name=""33 and 1/3""></ref> Author Andy Miller speculates that this riff was used in The Who's songs ""Overture"" and ""Go to the Mirror!""<ref name=""33 and 1/3""></ref> Ray Davies has also said that ""It would be nice to hear The Who sing it.""<ref name=""33 and 1/3""></ref> Johnny Thunder (song) ""Johnny Thunder"" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks. It first appeared on their 1968"
"where they would chat over tea and cakes in the morning room or stand in the garden when it was warm. On the evening of 15 July 1958, Nigel Walley went to visit Lennon and found Julia and Mimi talking by the front gate. Lennon was not there, as he was at the Blomfield Road house. Walley accompanied Julia to the bus stop further north along Menlove Avenue, with her telling jokes along the way. At about 9:30, Walley left her to walk up Vale Road and she crossed Menlove Avenue to the central reservation between two traffic lines, which"
"and Lily were omitted from the 2012 UK tour. Some of the characters names' were changed in the 2012 UK tour as follows; Lady Marmalade was renamed Lucretia MacEvil, Kathy was renamed Roxanne and Terry was renamed Billy. The principal cast members of all major productions of ""Disco Inferno"". The show is set in London in 1976; the hottest summer on record. ‘Disco Inferno’ tells the story of an ambitious and talented hopeful, Jack, and his ‘burning’ desire to make it in the music industry. Working late in a London nightclub, Jack meets Lucretia McEvil - a femme fatale and"
"closing sequence of the very last episode. The station is referenced in the title of the Kitchens of Distinction's song ""On Tooting Broadway Station"" from their third album ""The Death of Cool"". Tooting Broadway tube station Tooting Broadway is a London Underground station in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South London. The station is on the Northern line, between and stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3. It is located on the corner of Tooting High Street (A24) and Mitcham Road (A217). The station was opened on 13 September 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the"
"umbrellas, and an InterCity 125 train passing the Olympic rings as crop circles in a field. At Battersea Power Station a Pink Floyd pig was flying between the towers; the clock sound from another Pink Floyd song ""Time"" was heard passing Big Ben. The soundtrack included clips from the theme tune of ""The South Bank Show"", ""London Calling"" by The Clash, and the Sex Pistols' ""God Save the Queen"" as the film followed the route of the band's infamous cruise down the River Thames during the Silver Jubilee. After lifting to an aerial view of East London mirroring the title"
"of ""Waterloo Road"". This song was used in the Halfords ""Easter Getaway"" advertisement. The instrumental for this song has also been used in the second teaser trailer for ""Toy Story 3"", which was released on 11 October 2009. It also appeared in the film ""Juno"". In 2010, it was used as the opening theme for the CBBC show, ""Hounded"". Goodbye Mr. A ""Goodbye Mr A"" is the second single by British pop rock band The Hoosiers, from their debut album, ""The Trick to Life"". It was released on 8 October 2007. The song is written in the key of B"
"Sunday Girl (Erasure song) ""Sunday Girl"" is a song recorded by the British synthpop duo Erasure. Written by Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, it is the opening track on the duo's thirteenth studio album ""Light at the End of the World"". The song was the second UK single released from the album, on 11 June 2007. A North American release followed in July 2007. ""Sunday Girl"" is a very uptempo electronic music song which tells the story of someone who has immersed herself in nightlife and while in a nightclub catches the attention of Bell, who offers to"
"Sunday Girl (Erasure song) ""Sunday Girl"" is a song recorded by the British synthpop duo Erasure. Written by Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, it is the opening track on the duo's thirteenth studio album ""Light at the End of the World"". The song was the second UK single released from the album, on 11 June 2007. A North American release followed in July 2007. ""Sunday Girl"" is a very uptempo electronic music song which tells the story of someone who has immersed herself in nightlife and while in a nightclub catches the attention of Bell, who offers to"
"Mother meet at the Farhampton train station. Music supervisor Andy Gowan says that Carter Bays ""basically put it in the script, and wrote that script with that song in mind""; Gowan described the song as ""heartbreakingly beautiful"" and captured both the ""sweet and romantic"" and the ""somber, dark part"" of the scene. ""Heaven"" by The Walkmen features in the final scene of ""Last Forever"". Gowan said that ""it seemed like it was written for our show"". Gowan had suggested the song before, especially for use in the season 8 premiere, and said that when he pitched it for use in"