For Davies, it was so private he didn’t even dare present the lyrics to the opposite Kinks until he recorded his vocal. As he reported, “It absolutely was like an extract from a diary no person was permitted to read.” Yet it became his most beloved development. You’d never know with the song what a dump Waterloo Station is — a tribute to

On October 8th, 1963, when on tour, Cooke and customers of his entourage ended up arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace when they made an effort to register at a white motel — an incident reflected during the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-thirty day period-outdated son, Vincent, who drowned that