

Description
2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Gatefold
50th Anniversary LP.
Remastered Stereo Album.
Singles & BBC Mixes.
Deluxe Gatefold Packaging.
Heavyweight Vinyl.
Booklet With Sleeve Notes, Band Interviews & Rare Images.
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is the seventh studio album by English rock band the Kinks, released in October 1969. Kinks frontman Ray Davies constructed the concept album as the soundtrack to a Granada Television play and developed the storyline with novelist Julian Mitchell; the television programme was never produced. The rough plot revolved around Arthur Morgan, a carpet-layer, who was based on Ray and guitarist Dave Davies' brother-in-law Arthur Anning.
Arthur was met with nearly unanimous acclaim upon release. It received generous coverage in the US rock press, with articles running in underground magazines such as Fusion and The Village Voice. It garnered back-to-back reviews by Mike Daly and Greil Marcus in Rolling Stone magazine's lead section; Daly rated it "the Kinks' finest hour", and Marcus ranked it "the best British album of 1969".
Tracklist
A1 Victoria 3:37
A2 Yes Sir, No Sir 3:42
A3 Some Mother's Son 3:22
A4 Drivin' 3:15
A5 Brainwashed 2:30
A6 Australia 6:40
B1 Shangri-La 5:17
B2 Mr. Churchill Says 4:40
B3 She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina 3:05
B4 Young And Innocent Days 3:20
B5 Nothing To Say 3:07
B6 Arthur 5:20
C1 Plastic Man
C2 King Kong
C3 Lincoln County
C4 There Is No Life Without Love
C5 Hold My Hand
C6 Creeping Jean
D1 Mindless Child Of Motherhood
D2 This Man He Weeps Tonight
D3 Groovy Movies
D4 Victoria (BBC Mix)
D5 Mr. Churchill Says (BBC Mix)
D6 Arthur (BBC Mix)