The Kinks – Soap Opera – Vinyl LP

The Kinks’ fourteenth studio album, from 1975, and acontinuation of the band’s theatrical musical style from ‘Preservation Acts1 & 2’. ‘Soap Opera’ is the grandest concept album the Kinks ever made, in which Ray Davies’ tackled the topic of how ‘ordinary people’ escape the doldrums with dreams of stardoms. In it, a musician called ‘Starmaker’ swaps lives with an ordinary man named Norman to better understand life.

1. Everybody’s a Star (Starmaker)
2. Ordinary People
3. Rush Hour Blues
4. Nine To Five
5. When Work is Over
6. Have Another Drink
7. Underneath the Neon Sign
8. Holiday Romance
9. You Make It All Worthwhile
10. Ducks On the Wall
11. (A) Face In the Crowd
12. You Can’t Stop the Music