Waterloo Sunset - References in Other Works

References in Other Works

• In 1979 the song featured in a BBC Play for Today by Barry Keefe called 'Waterloo Sunset', about an elderly woman living in a London housing project.
• The 1987 Bob Geldof song Love Like a Rocket tells of Terry and Julie's romance having gone cold twenty years on. In it, "the Waterloo sunset won't work for her anymore".
• "4 am", a song written by Mike Barson and Graham McPherson, recorded first by Suggs on his 1995 album The Lone Ranger and then by Madness on the 1999 LP Wonderful, also picks up the story of Terry and Julie some years later.
• John Wesley Harding wrote the song "In Paradise" which included Terry and Julie. One version of the song also includes the chorus of "Waterloo Sunset".
• Indie group The Willows wrote a song about Terry and Julie passing like ships in the night on Wandsworth Common in the early 90s. The song was called "South of the River" and is included on their album English Country Garden (Suddick 1993).
• The 2007 UK movie French Film features a version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the group The Rushes, which is played during the credits over scenes of a sunset filmed from Waterloo Station.
• In 1985 Ray Davies released an album entitled Return to Waterloo, a soundtrack for the movie of the same name. The song "Return to Waterloo" and its accompanying video seemed to reference the struggles an aging person has returning to the world of their youth, with the narrator wondering "Will I get away/will I see it through/On the return to Waterloo."
• Ray Davies also wrote a collection of short stories called Waterloo Sunset. The stories revolve around an aged rock star called Les Mulligan and a cynical promoter planning his comeback. All stories are named after Kinks/Ray Davies songs.

Musical "references" to the song have also been noted in relation to Neil Sedaka's 1975 song, Laughter in the Rain".