David watts biography
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David Watts (song)
1967 single by the Kinks
"David Watts" is a song written by Ray Davies that originally appeared on the Kinks' 1967 album Something Else by the Kinks.[5] It was also the American and Continental Europe B-side to "Autumn Almanac".
It has been included on several compilation albums, including The Kink Kronikles (1972) and a live version recorded at Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York, 4 March 1980 was included on One for the Road, a double live album released in June 1980.
Background
The song is about the singer's great admiration of fellow schoolboy David Watts, who appears to have a "charmed life".
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There is an undercurrent of either deep envy or, as AllMusic put it, "a schoolboy crush". It is also, as Jon Savage has written, one of Ray Davies' "sharpest homoerotic songs". Despite this, Davies has commented that he sought to keep the lyric ambiguous: "When it comes to songs like 'See My Friends' or 'David Watts', I like to leave their m