Museum Musica

UK, 1969, pop rock

The Kinks – Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire: Is this consumer-obsessed society we’ve built on the blood of soldiers worth all the sacrifices that have gone before? The fear at the center of all our frenzied consumption hangs like a pall over our white-washed suburban lives, and we stagnate in our gardens as the walls of our empire fall around us.