"Waterloo Sunset" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks. It was released as a single on 5 May1967 and featured on the album Something Else by the Kinks in September that year. Written and produced by Kinks frontman Ray Davies, "Waterloo Sunset" is one of the band's best-known and most acclaimed songs, and was ranked number 14 on the 2021 edition of Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was also their first single that was available in true stereo.
"Waterloo Sunset" reached number 2 on the British charts in mid-1967. It was a top 10 hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. While also released as a single in North America, it failed to chart there.
History
thumb|A sunset over [[Waterloo, London, taken from the Victoria Embankment in 2001]]
Interviewed in May 1967, Ray Davies stated that he wrote "Waterloo Sunset" having had "the actual melody line in my head for two or three years". He initially titled the song "Liverpool Sunset", but scrapped the Liverpool theme after the release of the Beatles' song "Penny Lane".