Single:
Sunny Afternoon entered the Australian singles chart* on 16 July 1966 and peaked at #13. The song was #86 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Album:
The song is on the Kinks’ 1966 album Face to Face.
Songwriter:
Ray Davies
Producer:
Shel Talmy
Record label of Australian release:
Astor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
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, although it does so through the lens of an unsympathetic aristocrat bemoaning the loss of his vast unearned wealth. Its strong music hall flavour and lyrical focus was part of a stylistic departure for the band (begun with 1965’s A Well Respected Man), which had risen to fame in 1964–65 with a series of hard-driving, power-chord rock hits.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Afternoon
Lyrics:
The tax man’s taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
And I can’t sail my yacht
He’s taken everything I’ve got
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon
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