It always amuses me in retrospect about all the ruffles put up about certain songs in the mid-Sixties due to sexual imagery, or supposed sexual innuendo. I'm a Kinks freak from way back, and love all their work...and
Lola was, as said, one of those judged lyrically startling for its time. Among others the list would include are The Kingsmen's
Louie Louie (so garbled I still don't think anybody knows what they were really saying), The Standell's
Dirty Water, and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels'
Sock It To Me Baby!. You could actually go all the way back to Little Richard...just what
was it that Miss Molly sure liked to do? But then, after all this "controversy," just a few short years later in '72, Lou Reed charts a Top Twenty hit with
Walk on the Wild Side! How quickly times changed!
By the way, here's a great music site where you can look up the background and history to every artist and every song ever recorded in every genre!
http://AllMusic.com And there's a link there to a sister site for all classical music.
