"Sunny Afternoon" by The Kinks Limited Edition Prints of Original Painting

Sunny Afternoon was released on 3 June 1966, and hit No1 on 7 July 1966, remaining there for two weeks, just as England reached and then won the World Cup final. It is written through the lens of an unsympathetic aristocrat bemoaning the loss of his vast unearned wealth.

Today we are thirty years on from 1996, just as that year was itself three decades on from 1966, epochs both revered by generations mesmerised by that beautiful, feelgood collision of music, art, fashion and football. Ray said of the song: “I'd bought a white upright piano. I hadn't written for a time. I'd been ill. I was living in a very 1960s-decorated house. It had orange walls and green furniture. My one year- old daughter was crawling on the floor and I wrote the opening riff. I remember it vividly. I was wearing a polo-neck sweater.” Enjoy my supersize painting and interpretation of a legendary 1966 single, a moment which played its own part in the explosion of a British songwriting movement three decades later.