It is, of course, a Song about The River. Summer flows into Autumn and on and on, always, into Winter.įlooding the heart and soul with feeling.Ī Feeling more powerful than all your fears.Īs long as Londoners can gaze out on Waterloo Sunset they are in paradise. Millions swarming round Waterloo Underground.Įvery one dizzy with the possibilities of London Town.Įvery one looking to be found and to be safe and sound as the chilly, chilly, evening descends.Įvery one feeling London, London, all around them.ĭay flows into night. Lovers finding each other and finding themselves. Watching the taxi lights shine so bright.Īware of the lovers meeting on Friday night and the lonely friendless souls in the chilly, chilly, evening time.Īware of the dirty old river flowing, flowing into the night.Īware that the same world can be frightening and a paradise at the same time – it all depends where you are standing and what you see. A watchful London boy who became a watchful London man and artist.Īlive to all the sights and sounds and atmospheres on the breeze, in the fog, in the streets and alleyways of his home town. Work, work, work or lounge and idle away your days.Īll around you beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics and the one, the one, just waiting for you. Songwriters and Singers.Ĭome for a mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping.Ĭonfront your counterparts – hero or villain, mountebank or mystic. Those looking for the limelight and others looking to hide out – they’re all drawn to London. Now, there are other fine cities on other great rivers in this nation.Īnd, if you want to find out who you are, not who you’ve been told you are, and how far you can go – well then, London, London, is the place to be. ‘As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise’ (Ray Davies)Ī song about : London, The River, A Lonely Man and Two Lovers by A Great Songwriter leading a great Group. ‘The most beautiful song in the English language’ (Robert Christgau) Those triumphant chords come in, and the angels tell you everything is going to be OK”.Īnd, that’s a message that will always be welcome.Īll shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. It starts out delicate, but by the end has become awesome in its power. It’s about how innocence will prevail over adversity. So, today, 52 years on, The Jukebox punches once again the button and the unfading glory that is Waterloo Sunset floods the heart, mind and spirit with light and hope. The cultural historians of a thousand years hence will without question point to this Ray Davies masterpiece when they want to demonstrate the beauty those 1960s troubadours were capable of achieving. I woke up this holiday weekend to the sound of magnificent birds hosannaing the dawn.Īs the coffee brewed I switched on my radio and learned that 52 years ago to the day The Kinks released what will always be my favourite 45rpm single of all time.

Love me forever by mighty vikings 45rpm