Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ray Davies: Victoria

When Great Britain was great, Victoria reigned. Ray Davies sang about Queen Bess on the Kinks' Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire).

Listening to the lyrics, one would think Charles Dickens wrote them.
Long ago life was clean,
Sex was bad and obscene,
And the rich were so mean,
Victoria was my queen.
In 2009 Davies recorded some of his classic Kinks songs with a choir for the The Kinks Choral Collection.

Watch as Davies with a choir perform "Victoria" at the Glastonbury festival in 2010.



God save the Kinks!

Related posts:

Ray Davies: Thanksgiving Day
New York hurricane music: The Kinks, "Lost and Found"
Ray Davies: Return to Waterloo
The Kinks: Get Back In Line
The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks' Autumn Almanac
The Kinks: Have a Cuppa Tea
The Kinks: Days
The Kinks: Father Christmas

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