Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks, written by chief songwriter Ray Davies. 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. The track later featured on the Face to Face album as well as being the title track for their 1967 compilation album. The cover of this compilation features a psychedelic painted 1960 Buick designed by Binder, Edwards and Vaughn and painted in the street outside their studio on Gloucester Avenue, London NW1 in 1966. Its strong music hall flavour and lyrical focus was part of a stylistic departure for the band (begun with 1965s A Well Respected Man), which had risen to fame in 1964–65 with a series of hard-driving, power-chord rock hits.
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