other titles...
- Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)
- Ordinary People
- Rush Hour Blues
- Nine to Five
- When Work Is Over
- Have Another Drink
- Underneath the Neon Sign
- Holiday Romance
- You Make It All Worthwhile
- Ducks on the Wall
- (A) Face in the Crowd
- You Can't Stop the Music
the kinks
Soap Opera (2023 reissue)
BMG
The Kinks’ fourteenth studio album, from 1975, and a continuation of the band’s theatrical musical style from 'Preservation Acts 1 & 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. Standout tracks are ‘A Face In The Crowd’, ‘Underneath The Neon Sign’ and the excellent ‘You Can’t Stop The Music’.