NEW Sunny Afternoon The Kinks DES Stereo 1966

U. S. Billboard Hot 100, ,11 U. S. Cash Box Top 100, ,1 UK Singles, ,1 Canada, ,13 Australia, ,2 New Zealand A Hotpot DES Stereo, Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. To find out more about spectral editing and sound source separation, go to Sunny Afternoon is a song by the Kinks, written by chief songwriter Ray Davies. The track later featured on the Face to Face album as well as being the title track for their 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. 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 196465 with a series of harddriving, powerchord rock hits. Released as a single on 3 June 1966, it went to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on