For Davies, it absolutely was so individual he didn’t even dare demonstrate the lyrics to another Kinks until finally he recorded his vocal. As he mentioned, “It had been like an extract from the diary no person was permitted to examine.” Still it became his most beloved development. You’d never know with the song what a dump Waterloo Stati

On October 8th, 1963, while on tour, Cooke and members of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to sign-up at a white motel — an incident reflected while in the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his 18-month-aged son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the last verse