KINKS Reissued
More than half a century since its original release, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society album is lauded as a landmark moment in rock and roll history and one of the group’s signature classics. Yet the worthy follow-up album, 1969’s Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) has wrongly failed to earn the same gushing accolades. Now that’s about to change with a 50th anniversary 4-CD deluxe box set culling 81 tracks; a newly remastered version of the original album, sporting outtakes, alternate cuts, B-sides, BBC mixes, rehearsal tracks, the complete lost Dave Davies’ solo album, along with a softback book and various Kinks ephemera.
A concept album based on Ray and Dave’s sister Rose and husband Arthur Anning, who emigrated to Australia in the early 1960s, the album (the band’s first with new bassist John Dalton) is a powerful and evocative snapshot of a bygone era framed by some of the group’s strongest work
