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"A Well Respected Man" is a song by the British band The Kinks, originally released on the UK EP Kwyet Kinks in Sept 1965. It was also released as a single in the US in October and reached #13 on the Billboard charts.
Ray Davies composed the song based on a negative experience at a luxury resort in 1965. After a disappointing American tour, Ray was sent by Kinks managers Grenville Collins and Robert Wace to a resort in Torquay, Devon, England where upper-class guests, who knew of his musical career, tried to coax him into joining them for a golf game.
Ray recalled: They tried to make me one of them saying, "Come on, play golf with me." I took an instant dislike to them because the establishment draws you in and makes you one of them and that's as far as you can go. You can't break out. People like Lennon realized that.
It was one of three Kinks songs included on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the 660 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll along with You Really Got Me and Lola.
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