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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lola_(song)Lola (song) - Wikipedia

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   "Lola" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies for their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details a romantic encounter between a young man and a possible cross-dresser or trans woman , [4] [5] [6] whom he meets in a club in Soho , London.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lola_Versus_Powerman_andLola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One - Wikipedia

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   Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, commonly abbreviated to Lola Versus Powerman, or simply Lola, is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released on 27 November 1970.

4. www.loudersound.com › features › the-story-behindThe Kinks' Lola: the story behind the song | Louder

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   Jun 12, 2020 · A tale of sexual ambiguity in 60s Soho, Lola provided The Kinks with a worldwide hit at the exact moment they needed it most. (Image credit: GAB Archive / Getty Images) The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned, written off as 60s relics. Their only significant hit since 1967, Days, hardly arrested a calamitous, lift-shaft fall which ...

5. www.songfacts.com › facts › the-kinksLola by The Kinks - Songfacts

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   This song is about a guy who meets a girl (Lola) in a club who takes him home and rocks his world. The twist comes when we find out that Lola is a man. As stated in The Kinks: The Official Biography, Ray Davies wrote the lyrics after their manager got drunk at a club and started dancing with what he thought was a woman.

6. americansongwriter.com › meaning-lola-the-kinksThe Meaning Behind the Progressive Lyrics of "Lola" by The Kinks

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   Jul 21, 2022 · The meaning behind the lyrics. Today, “Lola” is recognized as one of the first commercially successful LGBTQ+ songs. The song, released in 1970, recounts the story of a man enjoying a night ...

7. genius.com › The-kinks-lola-lyricsThe Kinks – Lola Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

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   Lola Lyrics: I met her in a club down in old Soho / Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola / C-O-L-A, Cola / She walked up to me and she asked me to dance / I asked her her.

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   Did the Kinks promote Lola?

   • By the time "Lola" was released, most Americans hadn't heard from the Kinks in years, but the song proved very popular and this time, the band could promote it. The next single, " Apeman ," reached #45, but the next few Kinks albums took them in a more theatrical direction.

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   Who wrote 'Lola' by Kinks?

   • Kinks lead singer Ray Davies wrote the song, and there have been several speculations as to who inspired “Lola.” One of the more popular stories for Lola is that she was inspired by someone Kinks’ manager Robert Wace met on a wild night out. The story goes that Wace went out one night in Paris and believed he was dancing with a woman.

   The Meaning Behind the Progressive Lyrics of "Lola" by The Kinks

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   How did the kinks get famous?

   • The songs on the 1967 album, Something Else by the Kinks, developed the musical progressions of Face to Face, adding English music hall influences to the band's sound. Dave Davies scored a major UK chart success with the album's "Death of a Clown".

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   Did the Kinks really have a glam style?

   • Soon, he and T. Rex (whose new glam style was itself eerily predicted on a 1969 Kinks B-side, King Kong) were making sexual ambiguity common pop currency. Derek and the Dominos’ Layla (1971), coda and all, is surely also indebted. Once again, those serial innovators The Kinks had got there first, in a way which half a century hasn’t dated.

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