"we used a tape-delay echo, but it sounded new because nobody had done it since the 1950s. I remember Steve Marriott of the Small Faces came up and asked me how we'd got that sound. We were almost trendy for a while."" The single was one of the group's biggest UK successes, reaching number two on ""Melody Maker""'s chart, and went on to become one of their best-known. The elaborate production was the first Kinks recording produced solely by Ray Davies, without longtime producer Shel Talmy. In 2010 Ray Davies stated the song was originally entitled ""Liverpool Sunset"". In an"
"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"
"Waterloo (ABBA song) ""Waterloo"" is the first single from the Swedish pop group ABBA's second album, ""Waterloo"" and their first under the Epic and Atlantic labels. This was also the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. On 6 April 1974 the song was the winning entry for Sweden in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. The victory began ABBA's path to worldwide fame. The Swedish version of the single was a double A-side with ""Honey, Honey"" (Swedish version), while the English version usually featured ""Watch Out"" on the B-side. The single became a No."
"the Kinks feature the Thames as the setting of the first song's title and, for the second song, arguably in its mention of 'the river': ""Waterloo Sunset"" is about a couple's meetings on Waterloo Bridge, London and starts: ""Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night?"" and continues ""Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station"" and ""...but Terry and Julie cross over the river where they feel safe and sound..."". ""See My Friends"" continually refers to the singer's friends ""playing 'cross the river"" instead of the girl who ""just left"". Furthermore, Ray Davies as a solo artist refers to"
"Band's 1966 number 1 hit, ""Winchester Cathedral"", and the pair wrote Herman's Hermits 1965 hit ""Can't You Hear My Heartbeat"", which reached number 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Carter, Lewis and Ford continued as The Ivy League, who had a number of chart hits, and also providing backing vocals on such hit singles as The Who's ""I Can't Explain""). In 1966 they left the Ivy League to form the production company 'Sunny Music', creating The Flower Pot Men whose hit ""Let's Go To San Francisco"" reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967. By this time"
"Q65, the Golden Earrings (the predecessor of Golden Earring), the Motions (with Robbie van Leeuwen who would later form Shocking Blue), Ro-d-ys, Bumble Bees, the Shoes, and Cuby & the Blizzards. Nederbeat Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) was the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and, much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock. The emergence of pirate station Radio Veronica also worked to stimulate the Dutch music community to produce a great amount of 'Nederbeat'. The Hague was the country's beat capital, along"
"interview with the ""Liverpool Echo"", he explained: ""Liverpool is my favourite city, and the song was originally called 'Liverpool Sunset'. I was inspired by Merseybeat. I'd fallen in love with Liverpool by that point. On every tour, that was the best reception. We played The Cavern, all those old places, and I couldn't get enough of it. I had a load of mates in bands up there, and that sound – not The Beatles but Merseybeat – that was unbelievable. It used to inspire me every time. So I wrote 'Liverpool Sunset'. Later it got changed to 'Waterloo Sunset', but"
"Waterloo, Ontario by drummer Liam Epps, vocalist Chris Schroeder, bassist Hal Jaques, and guitarists David Halk and Chris Cookson. With the exception of Cookson, all members were previously of the band Abacus, which disbanded in 2006 (after their 2005 EP release) due to founding member, Darren Hartley, leaving the band to be with his wife and kids. The band released their debut, self-titled album under Year of the Sun Records in May 2007. The album was solely released on a Canadian independent label, and distributed throughout the US by The End Records. Following the debut of their album, the band"
"their actions, ""met their Waterloo"" – Adam (who ate the ""apple""), Napoleon (at the namesake battle), and Tom Dooley (who was hanged for murder). Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song) ""Waterloo"" was a number-one hit for country singer Stonewall Jackson in 1959. It was written by John D. Loudermilk and Marijohn Wilkin. The single was the most successful of Jackson's career, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. country music chart. The B-side of ""Waterloo"", ""Smoke Along the Track"", reached number 24 on the country chart. ""Waterloo"" was also Jackson's only Top 40 hit, where it stayed on the chart"
"thanking the racialists for attending and welcoming Dirlewanger and No Remorse (the other two bands on the bill that day). Live at Waterloo Live at Waterloo is a live album by the white power rock band Skrewdriver. The album is considered by skinheads to be Ian Stuart Donaldson's best performance. It is so named because of a fight at the redirection point, Waterloo train station, between skinheads and anti-fascist demonstrators, dubbed the ""Battle of Waterloo"" by mainstream media. The tracks ""Back with a Bang"", ""46 Years"" and ""Strikeforce"" were faded in and out on the album because they began and"
"Watershed (South African band) Watershed is a South African Pop-Rock band, which was founded in Johannesburg in 1998. Most famous for their signature tune 'Indigo Girl' in 2002, Watershed became a 'natural' success when a German radio DJ heard the single whilst vacationing in South Africa and played it on the air in Germany. The band toured in June 2010 with MacStanley through Germany as part of the Rock Kick Off tour, which is hosted by German Music Television station Imusic1. The band's song ""Fine Way"" was used in an advert for restaurant chain Wimpy (restaurant) in 2004. In 2006"
"Sugarloaf (band) Sugarloaf was an American rock band that originated under the name Chocolate Hair in 1968. The band, which formed in Denver, Colorado, scored two Top 10 hits, with the singles ""Green-Eyed Lady"" and ""Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"". Lead vocalist and keyboardist Jerry Corbetta, along with guitarist Bob Webber, played together in the Denver-based band The Moonrakers. The Moonrakers had previously released 4 singles on Tower; three of the songs being collected in 2005 on the Colorado garage rock compilation album ""Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 18"" and another having been released earlier on the ""Pebbles Volume"
"a song with ""some fabulous lyrics and a marvellous melody ... combined with a great production"", and music scholar Johnny Rogan described it as ""a kitchen sink drama without the drama—a static vision of working class stoicism"". One of the group's first promotional music videos was produced for the song. It was filmed on Little Green Street, a small 18th-century lane in north London, located off Highgate Road in Kentish Town. The Kinks' next single, ""Waterloo Sunset"", was released in May 1967. The lyrics describe two lovers passing over a bridge, with a melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the"
"1979 and 1983. Since 1983 the band was revived, although its work was mainly nostalgic ""sixties"". Their former lead singer, Peter Tetteroo, died in September 2002 from liver cancer, at the age of 55. ""Peter Tetteroo"" (""Petrus Ganesh Ridwin Tetteroo"") (8 July 1947 − 9 September 2002) was a Dutch composer, pop musician and singer born in Delft. He became known in 1965 as founder and lead singer of Tee Set. In 1968 he had a top 10 hit with a solo album, his version of Red Red Wine. Despite a severe liver disease, Peter remained active to the end."
"the band garnered a modest cult reputation. Jason Crest's fourth single, ""Waterloo Road"" (1968), reached number one in France when French singer Joe Dassin covered it under the title ""Les Champs-Élysées"". Jason Crest Jason Crest (formerly The Good Thing Brigade) were an English, Tonbridge, Kent based psychedelic pop group, active from around 1967 to 1969. Despite releasing five singles on Philips from 1967 to 1968, (including a cover of The Move's ""(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree""), the band were never commercially successful and disbanded towards the end of the 1960s when their contract with Philips expired. However, the"
"Team Waterpolo Team Waterpolo were a British indie pop band who formed in Preston, England in July 2007. The ""NME"" made their debut single ""Letting Go"" its 'Single of the Week', and gave them a place on their New Noise Tour alongside Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires and White Lies. The band signed to Epic Records in August 2008, beating off competition from numerous other record labels, only to be dropped less than 18 months later. The band consisted of Fred Davis on vocals, Nathan Standlee on guitar, Ruggero Lorenzini as DJ, and Lex Dunn on drums. ""Letting Go"", the first"
"Shocking Blue Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. The band spawned a number of psychedelic rock hits throughout the counterculture movements era during the 1960s and early 1970s, including ""Never Marry a Railroad Man"", ""Mighty Joe"", ""Love Buzz"", ""Blossom Lady"", ""Inkpot"" and ""Venus"". The latter became their biggest hit and went to No. 1 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band had sold 13.5 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974, during the final years of the hippie, flower power and other counterculture"
"Waterloo (album) Waterloo is the second studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, and the first released internationally. It was originally released in Sweden on 4 March 1974 through Polar Music. The album's title track won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and became a global hit, launching the group's career. Recording sessions for ""Waterloo"" began on 24 September 1973 with the track ""Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)"". This song was unusual in that it is the only ABBA track not to feature member Benny Andersson on keyboards, but instead featured American pianist John Rabbit Bundrick who"
"battle with Pick's disease, Corbetta died in Denver on September 16, 2016, at the age of 68. Former Sugarloaf guitarist Bob Webber went on to become an aerospace engineer and drummer Bob MacVittie moved to Arkansas and pursued restaurant management. Sugarloaf (band) Sugarloaf was an American rock band that originated under the name Chocolate Hair in 1968. The band, which formed in Denver, Colorado, scored two Top 10 hits, with the singles ""Green-Eyed Lady"" and ""Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"". Lead vocalist and keyboardist Jerry Corbetta, along with guitarist Bob Webber, played together in the Denver-based band The Moonrakers."
"store is located at 600A North Lamar Boulevard at the intersection of West 6th Street and North Lamar. Waterloo regularly hosts in-store performances featuring live performances by local and internationally known artists of all genres, especially during the South by Southwest conferences and festivals during which they host up to 10 bands a day. Past in-store performers have included Willie Nelson, The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Spoon, Steve Earle, My Morning Jacket, Cheap Trick, Jeff Buckley, My Bloody Valentine, Sebadoh, Alejandro Escovedo (a former Waterloo Records employee), Queens of the Stone Age, Norah Jones, Iron and Wine, The Shins, Animal"
"Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song) ""Waterloo"" was a number-one hit for country singer Stonewall Jackson in 1959. It was written by John D. Loudermilk and Marijohn Wilkin. The single was the most successful of Jackson's career, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. country music chart. The B-side of ""Waterloo"", ""Smoke Along the Track"", reached number 24 on the country chart. ""Waterloo"" was also Jackson's only Top 40 hit, where it stayed on the chart for 16 weeks, peaking at number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 pop chart. The song tells of three famous people who, because of"
"hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. In North America, ""Waterloo Sunset"" was released as a single but it failed to chart. The lyrics describe a solitary narrator watching (or imagining) two lovers passing over a bridge, with the melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the Thames, and Waterloo station. The song was rumoured to have been inspired by the romance between two British celebrities of the time, actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, stars of 1967's ""Far from the Madding Crowd"". Ray Davies denied this in his autobiography and claimed in a 2008 interview, ""It was a"
"Supergrass, The Dandy Warhols, Jet, Marilyn Manson, Rolling Stones, and Oasis. The album – entitled ""Waterloo to Anywhere"" – was released on 8 May 2006 in the UK and 8 August 2006 in the US. Their first studio recorded demo, ""Bang Bang You're Dead"", was released on their website in the form of a flash video. Its sound has been likened to that of the early Libertines', mixing punk and reggae influences. This song was released as their debut single on 24 April 2006 and reached number 5 in the UK single chart. This coincided with the latter part of"
"Live at Waterloo Live at Waterloo is a live album by the white power rock band Skrewdriver. The album is considered by skinheads to be Ian Stuart Donaldson's best performance. It is so named because of a fight at the redirection point, Waterloo train station, between skinheads and anti-fascist demonstrators, dubbed the ""Battle of Waterloo"" by mainstream media. The tracks ""Back with a Bang"", ""46 Years"" and ""Strikeforce"" were faded in and out on the album because they began and ended the respective sides of the master tape. The track ""White Power"" has a speech at the end from ISD"
"of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November 1966, involving police and crowds of young club-goers. Those riots inspired the Buffalo Springfield song ""For What It's Worth"". Sunset Strip became popular with rock musicians and their fans. Bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Byrds, Love, The Seeds, Frank Zappa, and others played at clubs like the Whisky a Go Go, the Roxy, Pandora's Box and the London Fog. In July 1965 Go-Go dancers also began performing. The Hyatt West Hollywood (now known as the Andaz West Hollywood) became a popular hotel. Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, influenced by Britain's"
"Waterloo & Robinson Waterloo & Robinson is an Austrian band, consisting of Johann Kreuzmayr (""Waterloo"") and Josef Krassnitzer (""Robinson""). <br> The duo are most famous for representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performing the song My Little World, where they recorded a 5th-place finish with 80 points. This song was also the first time that Austria had performed entirely in English at the Contest. More recently, the duo entered preselection to represent Austria at the 2004 Contest, losing out to boyband Tie Break. This caused some controversy when Waterloo & Robinson protested that Tie Break's song (""Du Bist"")"
"Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, formed in 1968, was a rarely performing British pub blues band. Significant band members Jona Lewie and Keith Trussell were members of Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs, which released ""Seaside Shuffle"", a single that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1972. Brett Marvin and The Thunderbolts was formed from a previous connection in 1967 to Thomas Bennett Comprehensive School in Crawley, Sussex. Peter Gibson, a teacher at the school and a graduate of Liverpool College of Art, set up a blues and folk club, at which sixth-form student"
"Lakeside (band) Lakeside is a funk band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit, ""Fantastic Voyage"". In early 1969, The Nomads met The Montereys, and formed a band and a singing group consisting of lead guitarist and founding member Stephen Shockley, Mark Wood, Tiemeyer McCain, Tony White, and Brian Marbury. The two groups played together in musical revues in the tri-state area of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. When The Montereys left the Tri-State area later in 1969 to pursue opportunities in New York City, Stephen Shockley and The Nomads remained behind. Mark Wood, the other Nomads, and Stephen"
"UK chart entry. The Kinks' second wave of popularity remained at a peak with ""State of Confusion"", but that success began to fade, a trend that also affected their British rock contemporaries the Rolling Stones and the Who. During the second half of 1983, Ray Davies started work on an ambitious solo film project, ""Return to Waterloo"", about a London commuter who daydreams that he is a serial murderer. The film gave actor Tim Roth a significant early role. Davies' commitment to writing, directing and scoring the new work caused tension in his relationship with his brother. Another problem was"
"the next album, ""Waterloo Lily"". The title was suggested by Richard Sinclair; the ""land of grey and pink"" refers to the band's home county of Kent. He came up with the phrase after looking at the sky at sunset during rehearsals at Graveney early in the band's career. The album was released on 8 April 1971 and featured a Tolkien influenced cover, drawn by Anne Marie Anderson. It did not chart in the UK, but sold steadily throughout the 1970s and remaining in print, with ""Nine Feet Underground"" becoming a popular track on late-night FM radio. The group became frustrated"
"""Dedicated Follower of Fashion"", ""Sunny Afternoon"", ""Dandy"" and ""Little Miss Queen of Darkness"" (all 1966); ""Mister Pleasant"" and ""End of the Season"" (both 1967); ""Sitting By the Riverside"" and ""All of My Friends Were There"" (both 1968); ""She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina"" (1969); ""Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues"" and ""Alcohol"" (both 1971); ""Look a Little on the Sunny Side"" (1972); and ""Holiday Romance"" (1975). Occasionally, he varied the group's sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga (""Fancy"", 1966), bossa nova (""No Return"", 1967) and calypso (""I'm on an Island"", 1965; ""Monica"", 1968; ""Apeman"", 1970; ""Supersonic Rocket Ship"","
"Nederbeat Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) was the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and, much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock. The emergence of pirate station Radio Veronica also worked to stimulate the Dutch music community to produce a great amount of 'Nederbeat'. The Hague was the country's beat capital, along with neighbouring coastal town Scheveningen. The clubs on its boulevard, from where Veronica's pirate ship was constantly visible, proved instrumental as a locus for Dutch talent. Popular groups were the Outsiders,"
"filmed in early July 1967, features the band in an open field with a scarecrow, generally fooling around. It shows Roger Waters falling down as if he were shot, and Nick Mason exchanging his hat with the scarecrow's. Part of this film has been featured in Waters' live performances of ""Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"". A second promo was filmed in 1968 in Brussels, Belgium, with David Gilmour replacing Barrett, and Waters lip-syncing while playing his Rickenbacker bass with a violin bow. The industrial band Rx covered ""The Scarecrow"" on their album ""Bedside Toxicology"". The vocals"