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Sunny Afternoon

song by Davies

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discussed in biography

In Ray Davies: Life as a Kink
His “Sunny Afternoon,” a number one hit in the United Kingdom in 1966, centred on Davies’s disenchantment with the high level of the progressive income tax imposed by the Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Among Davies’s other acclaimed songs with the Kinks in the…
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recording by the Kinks

In the Kinks
…Follower of Fashion,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the last of which reached number one on the U.K. charts in 1966 and on which Ray Davies imitated 1930s British crooner Al Bowlly.
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