Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Live 1973) “Waterloo Sunset” is a song by English rock band the Kinks. It was released as a single on 5 May 1967 and featured on the album Something Else by the Kinks later 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 Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was also their first single that was available in true stere