I realised the other day that this song is one of the very few 60s songs influenced by the Kitchen Sink vogue in the late 50s/early 60s. It began on the stage with Look Back In Anger, percolated to books like Room At The Top, Saturday Night Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, then to movies, as all these books were successful films, and then belatedly to pop in the form of Dead End Street.
Having spent the early 60s living at both ends of Kings Road, Chelsea, the heart of Swinging London, I was quite surprised later in life to find that most people's experience, as Sir Bob is quoted as saying, didn't find this era as much fun as I did.
I realised the other day that this song is one of the very few 60s songs influenced by the Kitchen Sink vogue in the late 50s/early 60s. It began on the stage with Look Back In Anger, percolated to books like Room At The Top, Saturday Night Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, then to movies, as all these books were successful films, and then belatedly to pop in the form of Dead End Street. Having spent the early 60s living at both ends of Kings Road, Chelsea, the heart of Swinging London, I was quite surprised later in life to find that most people's experience, as Sir Bob is quoted as saying, didn't find this era as much fun as I did.