"(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" is a song written by Ray Davies that was first released on the Kinks' 1979 album, Low Budget. The song, inspired by...

number 11 on the American album charts. The lead single, "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman", was also a minor hit in the US, reaching number 41. After...

Fighting, 2001 "Superman (Meets The Man Of Steel)", a song by Chalk Circle from the 1996 album The Great Lake "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman", by the Kinks...

fury of an outraged avenger." 50: "What, I thought, could be more sensational than a Superman who could fly through the air, who was impervious to flames...

at The Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, 11 November 1979 "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" – 6:29 recorded at The Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, 11...

the Billboard Hot 100, with two just missing at number 41: "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" and "Do It Again". Six consecutive albums covered by this...

fitting in the story. The film inspired The Kinks' 1979 song "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman", when the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies, watched the...

Guitar World, 2014 When it was released as the B-side of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman," Trouser Press described "Low Budget" as being "raunchier"...

period after the war ("She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina"), and the death of his brother in World War I ("Yes Sir, No Sir", "Some Mother's Son")...

Peters did not want Superman to fly,: 190  arguing that the character would "look like an overgrown Boy Scout". Smith wrote Superman flying as "a red-and-blue...

Rooney was still alive), in which the narrator declares that he wishes his life were like a movie "because celluloid heroes never feel any pain ... and...

pubs. They were like secret clubs. And that's where Ray [Davies] got the idea for 'Lola'. When he was invited too, he wrote it while I was getting drunk...

(1984)—showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach. On "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman", Davies vented his existential angst about the 1979 energy...

think you're gay, or something. You gotta make a record like 'Superman' or 'Gorilla Man'!' And I said, 'That's really strange! My new record is called 'Apeman'...

fans". When I first heard ["You Really Got Me"], I said, "Shit, it doesn't matter what you do with this, it's a number one song". It could have been done...

in '65. It's a bit like that. [Ray] did it beautifully, the fact he's so still and they're all heaving around him. I think Ray could have been more of...

effusive, naming it the one song he wished he had written, and commenting that "It's the most perfect song I could ever hope to write, with my sort of...

ambiguous: "When it comes to songs like 'See My Friends' or 'David Watts', I like to leave their meaning open. In [my] book, I wrote about how 'David Watts'...

1979), Chicago with "Street Player" (1979), the Kinks with "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), the Grateful Dead with "Shakedown Street", The Who...

know that I love you true Do anything that you want me to Confess all my sins like you want me to There's one thing I will say to you I'm not like everybody...

albums. "Superman" - The Academy Is... (The Clique/R.E.M. cover) – 2:31 "It's So Easy" - Plain White T's – 3:06 "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" - The...

time of need. While another song on Low Budget invokes DC Comics hero Superman, "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" calls to Marvel Comics hero Captain America...

character Superman. It is the second installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman (1978). A direct continuation of the first Superman, Christopher...

"The only way I could interpret how I felt was through a dusty, fallen aristocrat who had come from old money as opposed to the wealth I had created for...

the difference in popularity of the extended play format (the UK market liked it, the US market did not, so US albums had the EP releases bundled onto...

one of them and that's as far as you can go. You can't break out. People like Lennon realized that. The encounter prompted Ray to "use words more, and...

pre-gain and all, I thought it wasn't quite right, and I struggled with the sound for a while. I never liked Marshalls, because they sounded like everybody else...

Jam, "The Hard Way" by the Knack, and "I Go to Sleep," an unreleased track written by Ray Davies, which, like "Stop Your Sobbing," was covered by the...

in-progress album. However, the song was dropped from Low Budget because the band could not create a satisfactory mix. "Destroyer" was ultimately recorded at the...

country by the downtrodden working class ("Though I am poor, I am free/When I grow I shall fight/For this land I shall die"). The production begins with a simple...