Soap Opera Heavyweight LP

The Kinksrsquo fourteenth studio album, from 1975, and a continuation of the bandrsquos theatrical musical style from Preservation Acts 1 amp 2.Soap Opera is the grandest concept album the Kinks ever made, in which Ray Davies tackled the topic of how lsquoOrdinary peoplersquo escape the doldrums with dreams of stardoms. In it, a musician called lsquoStarmakerrsquo swaps lives with an ordinary man named Norman to better understand life.Standout tracks are lsquoA Face In The Crowdrsquo, lsquoUnderneath The Neon Signrsquo and the excellent lsquoYou Canrsquot Stop The Musicrsquo.A faithfully reproduced gatefold heavyweight black 1LP, this is the albumrsquos first repress, apart from a limited edition US pressing in 2008, since the original LP release.Another successful release, especially in the United States where it charted at 45.