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| "Sunny Afternoon" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 West German picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by the Kinks | ||||
| from the album Face to Face | ||||
| B-side | "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" | |||
| Released | 3 June 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 13 May 1966[1] | |||
| Studio | Pye, London | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:36 | |||
| Label | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Ray Davies | |||
| Producer(s) | Shel Talmy | |||
| The Kinks singles chronology | ||||
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"Sunny Afternoon" is a song by the Kinks, written by Ray Davies[7] and released as a single in June 1966. The track was included on the Face to Face album released in late October, and served as the title track for a 1967 compilation album. Like its contemporary "Taxman" by the Beatles, the song references the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson,[8][9] although it does so through the lens of an unsympathetic aristocrat bemoaning the loss of his vast unearned wealth.[10] Its strong music hall flavour and lyrical focus was part of a stylistic departure for the band (begun with 1965's "A Well Respected Man"), which had risen to fame in 1964–65 with a series of hard-driving, power-chord rock hits.[11]
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 83.
- ^ Goldsmith 2019, p. 254; Paytress 2022.
- ^ Gelbart 2003, pp. 222–223.
- ^ "The Kinks Album Guide". Rolling Stone Magazine. 20 June 2019.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "The Kinks". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 458–460. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ McIver, Joel (2015). "The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. New York: Universe. p. 174.
- ^ "6 Music - Kinks reunion exclusive". BBC. 4 October 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 200.
- ^ Everett 2010, p. 48.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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