THE KINKS.ARTHUR.LP.1969.MONORARE1ST UK PRESS.A-1 B-2 MATRIX.EX. TO MINT COND

	£		301
	$		399

ARTIST: THE KINKS

TITLE: ARTHUR OR THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Track listing

All songs written by Ray Davies, except when noted.

RELEASE DETAILS

LABEL: Pye

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1969

COUNTRY OF RELEASE: UK

CATALOGUE NUMBER: NPL 18317

MATRIX NUMBERS: NPL18317 A-1*T / NPL18317 B-2*T STEREO

Stamper Codes: C 1 / A 1

VINYL WEIGHT: 140g

VINYL VISUAL:EXCELLENT; lovely shiny vinyl that retains a nice sheen. Side one,perfect.Side 2 has 3 small surface scratches which do not interfere with sound quality.Looks nice overall and there is nothing that affects the audio which was superb.
LABELS:EXCELLENT; both look great with just some tiny light spindle tracing.
SLEEVE:EXCELLENT; the front laminated sleeve is very fragile and is notoriously difficult to find in a collectable condition but this one is a really lovely example.The front panel has just some light laminate bubble towards the spine (see photo). Light wear to the top and bottom edges. The rear has just the lightest hint of ring wear. A tiny bit of wear to the corners of the spine

LYRIC PULL OUT SHEET: Excellent to mint.Just a small crease on the small pull tab.

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; however, the television programme was cancelled and never produced. The rough plot revolved around Arthur Morgan, a carpet-layer, who was based on Ray Davies' brother-in-law Arthur Anning. A mono version was released in the UK, but not in the US. It is now available on the 2011 deluxe-edition re-issue.

Arthur was met with almost 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 as "the Kinks' finest hour", and Marcus went so far as to call it "the best British album of 1969".[1] Reviews in the UK were also positive. Although it received a mixed review in New Musical Express, Disc & Music Echo praised the album's musical integrity, and Melody Maker called it "Ray Davies' finest hour ... beautifully British to the core".

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THE ITEM HAS BEEN STORED UPRIGHT IN SECURE,DRY CONDITIONS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS.THE OWNER HAVING RECENTLY RETURNED FROM LIVING AND WORKING OVERSEAS.A VISUALLY EXCELLENT DISC WHICH STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL DEEP BLACK SHINE (SEE PHOTO(S).

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