I presume the song refers to the Kingston in Jamaica
Because I can assure you, there is nothing funky about Kingston-upon-Thames.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:31, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Toots Hibbert
wrote the upbeat reggae classic after a particularly rewarding visit to the Bentall Centre whilst on a UK tour in the early 70s. SO YOU ARE WRONG, HA!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)

The Bentall Centre wasn't built in the '70s
Why would you lie to me, Monty?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)

DAAAAAAAAAMMNMNNNN YOOUUUUUUUUUU.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)

What's sad is I can vaguely remember being it built.
And an IRA bomb scare in there a few years afterwards.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)

You rushed down there excitedly...
'oh. I thought you said 'bum-scare'

*dejected wee little Crow-face*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)

I would only have been about seven years old
Far too young to have been told about the birds and the bummers.

I still had a dejected wee as a form of dirty protest, mind...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Obviously it's about Kingston upon Hull
See also Kingston Town
(Cave Duck, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)