One of the Survivors
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| "One of the Survivors" | ||||
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| Single by The Kinks | ||||
| from the album Preservation Act 1 | ||||
| B-side | "Scrapheap City" | |||
| Released | 20 April 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 9–10 March 1973 at Konk Studios, Hornsey, North London | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:31 (album version) 4:07 (single edit) | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter | Ray Davies | |||
| Producer | Ray Davies | |||
| The Kinks singles chronology | ||||
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"One of the Survivors" is a song by the British rock band the Kinks. Appearing on their 1973 concept album Preservation Act 1, the song was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.
"One of the Survivors" references the character Johnny Thunder, who had appeared in the song of the same name from the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. However, since his appearance in "Johnny Thunder" in 1968, Johnny Thunder, who is called "one of the survivors" by the singer of the song, has grown "little overweight, and his sideburns are turnin' grey, but he still likes to bebop, boogie and jive to his worn out seventy-eights."
The song also references many musicians from the 1950s (that Johnny Thunder enjoys to listen to), such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion and The Belmonts and Johnny and The Hurricanes, as well as songs such as "Hound Dog", "Blue Suede Shoes", and "Great Balls of Fire".
