Kinks, The – Soap Opera

Description

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.