"Last Night in Soho" is a single by English pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, released by Fontana on 28 June 1968.
[2] "Last Night in Soho" is described in Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music as "a leather-boy motorbike saga portraying lost innocence in London's most notorious square mile".
[3] Songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley wrote the song with "a strong visual image" in mind, prompted by a comment made by Dave Dee.
and "The Legend of Xanadu", the song is set in Soho, an area in the West End of London renowned for much of the 20th century as a base for the city's sex industry and night life.
[4] Frontman Dave Dee considered the song more serious than previous hits for his band, telling Disc and Music Echo "Nobody can say that we've made repetitive records in the past.
[14] Ray Davies, whose Kinks single "Days" was in the charts at the same time as "Last Night in Soho", declared in Disc and Music Echo's "Hit Talk" column that he disliked the song, adding: "'Xanadu' was not a favourite of mine and neither is this".
[14] Retrospectively, authors Frogg Moody and Richard Nash describes it as another of Howard and Blaikley's 'story' songs, "in which a man finds love and is then tempted back into crime by his dodgy mates".