Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Waterloo Sunset joins a long list of Kinks compilations: there have been over 30 over the decades. A two-CD ...

The Kinks are to re-release their 1967 number two hit "Waterloo Sunset" on the 40th anniversary of it's original chart placing. A 7" version will come backed with "Act Nice And Gentle" and a limited ...

With a performance of Waterloo Sunset at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony fresh in everyone's memory, Universal has just released a compilation that offers 'the best' of Ray Davies and his ...

The Kinks’ Ray Davies has said he never wanted to release ‘Waterloo Sunset’. The track was released as a single in May 1967 and went on to feature on the album ‘Something Else’ later that year.

Ironically, this most London of songs started its life as ‘Liverpool Sunset’: Ray Davies’ reflection on the decline of the Merseybeat boom. But while the head Kink was still mulling his song over, The ...

Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...