WCSX Classic Cuts : Lola

WCSX Classic Cuts

The Kinks: "Lola"

The Hook: One of the band's managers told them a story of his encounter with a woman who turned out to be a man.

Album: Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One

Year: 1970

Writer: Ray Davies

Stats: Peaked at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background: Kinks guitarist Dave Davies tells the story that inspired his brother Ray to write "Lola."

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies on the story behind “Lola.” OC:…married together. :28

“Robert, one of our managers, it really came from him. He met this lovely woman that he thought was a woman, in a nightclub. And he sort of had a few scotches too many and about five o’clock in the morning he noticed that she had a bit of stubble on her face. That’s all he told us, but I’m sure it went much further, probably the whole way, as far as it could possibly go. I don’t know. Who knows? But that’s where the story originated from. And I started to bash out these chords one day and it just sort of all married together.”