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.Despite now being one of the band’s classic songs, Davies has said in a new interview that had wanted to keep the song private. “I got my family together – my sister was over from Australia and there was Jackie my niece and a couple of my nephews – and I played them the acetate of it about 20 times,” he told MOJO.“I said, ‘That’s for us and I don’t want it to come out’.
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