Talk:Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
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[edit] <^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>
- All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 18:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Album name
Hmmm...shouldn't the redirect to Arthur be the other way around? The actual name of the album is Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). ~~ Shiri 00:15, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Initial Reaction
"Very favorably compared to Tommy"??? That's funny I always thought it was regarded as a cheap imitation of Tommy when released, not compared favourably...Does anyone have a definitive source on this? (Not forgetting that reviews on websites such as RollingStone.com have been written recently not back then) - Tangerine 03 08:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Personnel Changes
Somebody changed the personnel back to how it was before I had changed it to make it correct. I am going to change it back to how it was when I changed it. Please do not change it unless there is a problem with my corrections. For whatever reason people always think Dave Davies played keyboards on this album and Village Green, he didn't. On Village Green I'm pretty sure it was Ray Davies and Nicky Hopkins, I think Ray played them on this. Somebody wrote that Dave Davies plays harmonica on this, I've listened to the album about 5 million times and have never heard a harmonica! The closest thing you could mistake a harmonica for is kazoo, I'm not sure which bandmember plays the kazoo, I suppose it could be Dave, BUT A KAZOO IS NOT A HARMONICA!!! There's also an accompanying brass section, most likely session musicians (I don't think any of the Kinks played brass instruments). If you have any problems with my changes I would like to have sources that show I am incorrect before alterations are made. Thank You!--Bappzannigan 00:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pete Quaife on Arthur
I once read an interview with Pete Quaife, the original bassist for the Kinks. In the interview he said that he knew he laid down some bass for some tracks on this album, but forgot which ones. He also stated that he can detect his playing style on a few of the songs. Does anybody know what songs he plays on? He is not given credit in the liner notes (as far as I recall). If he does play on some of the songs perhaps it should be noted (the original songs on the album, I'm aware that he played bass on some of the 1998 bonus tracks because they were recorded before this album, i.e. "Plastic Man"/"King Kong").--Bappzannigan 00:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
