The Kinks Lola Live

The Kinks Lola Live. This song is about a transvestite. According to a 2004 piece in Rolling Stone magazine, it may have been inspired by the famous transvestite Candy Darling, who Kinks lead singer Ray Davies allegedly dated for a brief time. This is the same Candy mentioned in Lou Reed s Walk On The Wild Side ( Candy came from out on the island, in the backroom she was everybody s darling ). The other possibility, which is stated in The Kinks: The Official Biography, is that Ray Davies wrote the lyr br, br,