Starmaker

In Granada TVs 1974s Starmaker head Kink Ray Davies proved once again that hes not like everybody else producing a rock opera for television that tells the story of an insufferable vain egotistical rock star played by Davies naturally who switches places with an ordinary person named Norman working in Normans crappy job and living Normans crappy life to find inspiration for his next album Well its a little more complicated than that Davies play reveled in breaking the fourth wall cameras and microphones are visible throughout and the plays authorstar himself even ends up a member of the audience Starmaker was a dry run for the themes of the Kinks 1975 album The Kinks Present a Soap Opera