"A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy," The Kinks (1978)

An epic song about the end of the band

Peak: #30 on the Hot 100
Streams: 1.3 million

When he wrote “A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy,” Ray Davies didn’t know that The Kinks had many years of great music ahead. He didn’t know that in 1983 the song “Come Dancing” would become one of his band’s biggest hits, or that in 2014 their catalogue would inspire a successful musical. All Ray Davies knew on that su…