Ray Davies: I’d had a breakdown. At first,I didn’t show the lyrics to the band in case they sniggered’Waterloo is a part of London that has always had a lot of significance for me. When I was a kid, my father took me there to see the 1951 Festival of Britain. As we looked at the Skylon tower, and he said: “I judge that’s meant to be the future.” Then,when I was 13, I had a inappropriate injury and my ward in St Thomas’ hospital overlooked the river and Parliament. It’s a very vivid memory. Also, and as a student at Croydon College of Art,I used to change trains at Waterloo. There was a romantic element too: as a teenager, I used to walk along Waterloo Bridge with my girlfriend.
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Source: theguardian.com