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“Lola” is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by The Kinks which details a romantic encounter between a young man (presumably in his late teen years) and a he meets in a Soho, London club.

One of The Kinks’ best-known songs, the single was taken from the album Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One, which was released in June, 1970, and reached #2 in the UK charts and #9 in the US. It was ranked 422nd on the List of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is famous for its C-D-E .

In the book The Kinks: The Official Biography, Ray Davies says that he was inspired to write this song after the band manager Robert Wace had spent the night dancing with a transvestite. Davies said,
“ I remembered an incident in a club… in his apartment Robert Wace had been dancing with this black woman, and he said, ‘I’m really on to a thing here.’ And it was okay until we left at six in the morning and then I said, ‘Have you seen the stubble?’ He said ‘Yeah,’ but he was too pissed to care, I think. ”

Accounts also indicate a similar incident occurred at about the same time during a Kinks European tour in the mid-1960s, cementing the song’s scenario in Davies’ mind for later use.

In late 1969, Davies’ father encouraged him to focus his energy on writing another worldwide hit single after a long dry spell for the band, and “Lola” was the result. Davies and the Kinks spent extra time and effort recording and crafting the song at Morgan Studios in London during early 1970.
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  • rickenbackeriff

    Nooooooooooooooooooooolah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    yesterday evening

  • maxdaisy1

    Great Song...

    Monday afternoon

  • nicki-77

    classic stuff....

    25 days ago

  • Globalnote

    This is my favourite Kinks track, just a classic.

    28 days ago

  • BlueOclock

    Well, I for one refuse to listen to this filth from these little morons of the new apocalypse....well.....wait a minute....hmmmmmm......it's not really that bad is it? In fact......I quite like it.........never mind......

    30 days ago

  • monkeystew580

    TRANNY!!!!

    last month

  • DonkeyHotai

    "bungled up world" ... mmm, not the way I remember it. ;-)

    last month

  • DonkeyHotai

    "...but when she squeezed me tight she almost broke my spine..." ahhh, true love :-)

    last month

  • j41m66a69

    This the best version {Coca-Cola}

    last month

  • Robertakadad

    Makes me think of Lola Granola from Bloom County great tune and great comic :-)

    last month

  • legends_live_on

    weird al's cover "yoda" is brilliant!

    March 2012

  • marcgindratt

    This song always puts me in a good state of mind every time I hear it.

    March 2012

  • manifestnosense

    I always think of the book Lolita when I hear this song, and so I always think this song song is super inappropriate

    March 2012

  • kpthedude

    Now I'm not the worlds most physical guy but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine. I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she walked like a woman and talked like a man... lola.

    March 2012

  • HathInTheRam

    It's still hard for me to get used to this version because the first version I ever heard was the Coca-Cola version.

    February 2012

  • lefthandedmoth

    I like this version quite a lot. Stripped-down takes are always cool to hear.

    February 2012

  • oldiesfanjohn

    yawn...overplayed to death

    January 2012

  • BlueOclock

    nicorebel, Still on that diet I see....lookin' great!

    January 2012

  • xtwntraphq

    great version

    January 2012

  • nssworld

    Love this track....la la la la LOLA!!!

    January 2012
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