Dedicated Follower of Fashion

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Dedicated Follower of Fashion

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Ray Davies
Life as a Kink
…in the 1960s were “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” (1966), which skewered blind obedience to the Carnaby Street-dictated fashion trends in “Swinging London,” and the melancholy view-from-a-window paean “Waterloo Sunset” (1967), which esteemed rock critic Robert Christgau called “the most beautiful song in the English language.” Veering from the group’s…
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…in the 1960s were “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” (1966), which skewered blind obedience to the Carnaby Street-dictated fashion trends in “Swinging London,” and the melancholy view-from-a-window paean “Waterloo Sunset” (1967), which esteemed rock critic Robert Christgau called “the most beautiful song in the English language.” Veering from the group’s…
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the Kinks
…like “A Well-Respected Man,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the last of which reached number one on the U.K. charts in 1966 and on which Ray Davies imitated 1930s British crooner Al Bowlly.
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…like “A Well-Respected Man,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the last of which reached number one on the U.K. charts in 1966 and on which Ray Davies imitated 1930s British crooner Al Bowlly.
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