The Kinks ’Lola’ Live.

The Kinks ’Lola’ Live. This song is about a transvestite. According to a 2004 piece in Rolling Stone magazine, it may have been inspired by the famous transvestite Candy Darling, who Kinks lead singer Ray Davies allegedly dated for a brief time. This is the same Candy mentioned in Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side“ (“Candy came from out on the island, in the backroom she was everybody’s darling“). The other possibility, which is stated in The Kinks: The Official Biography, is that Ray Davies wrote the lyr