"Dead End Street" is a song by the British band the Kinks from 1966, written by main songwriter Ray Davies.

According to Ray Davies, the lyrics are about a couple that want to emigrate to Australia under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme but when that fell through they could not get a job.

"[7] Billboard described "Dead End Street" as an "exceptional off-beat item" with a "driving dance beat" that it expected to be a "surefire smash.

It was filmed on Little Green Street, a diminutive eighteenth century lane in North London, located off Highgate Road in Kentish Town.

Dave Davies says that the BBC disliked the film, with the group dressed as Victorian pallbearers and one of their roadies in a nightshirt suddenly leaping out of the coffin as they put it down on the pavement, claiming it was in bad taste.

[12] The song was recorded at a time when bassist Pete Quaife had left the band after a scooter accident, and was replaced by John Dalton.

According to band researcher Doug Hinman:[13] The Kinks Additional musicians "Dead End Street" has been covered by the Jam.